17th Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009

Actual farm financial data shows that dairy farms practicing management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG) and organic practices can be economically competitive with dai [...]

In response to the world wide growing interest in the role of women in human welfare, this study focused on conditions of the Egyptian rural women and the potentials of t [...]

The lack of collaboration in the food chain has long been recognised as a barrier to improved efficiency. A series of three interviews, using the Delphi technique, were c [...]

1st 2 paragraphs of the Introduction: The competition between the regional areas has become stronger and stronger as a consequence of the transnational companies’ [...]

Globalization is one of the greatest strategic challenges for agricultural cooperatives. Globalization has increased significantly over the last decade, and despite finan [...]

One of the key concerns of biogas plants is the disposal of comparatively large amounts of digestates in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. This pape [...]

The purpose of this paper was to develop recommendations for benchmarking. The operating profit margin ratio and the asset turnover ratio were the chosen benchmarks. Thes [...]

The integration of financial, tax and production data in a Management Information System can optimize the business productivity. Linking up farms across counties with a c [...]

The ability to be adaptable in the process of daily ration formulation demands handy tools to support their calculation. This paper presents an example of such a tool, wh [...]

Innovations that allow the development of new product are often linked to collaboration between private companies and public research laboratories. This collaboration mos [...]