The impact of farm size on sustainability of beef cattle farms: A case study of the Samsun province, Turkey by Uğur Başer, Mehmet Bozoğlu

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Fun on the farm: evaluation of a lesson to teach students about the spread of infection on school farm visits. by Meredith K D Hawking, Donna M Lecky, Neville Q Verlander, Cliodna A M McNulty

“…BACKGROUND: School visits to farms are a positive educational experience but pose risks due to the spread of zoonotic infections. …”
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Monitoring of Mycotoxigenic Fungi in Fish Farm Water and Fumonisins in Feeds for Farmed <i>Colossoma macropomum</i> by Juliana Sousa Terada-Nascimento, Jerônimo Vieira Dantas-Filho, Bruna Lucieny Temponi-Santos, Vinícius Perez-Pedroti, Maria Mirtes de Lima Pinheiro, Ricardo Ysaac García-Nuñez, Igor Mansur Muniz, Átila Bezerra de Mira, Elica Amara Cecilia Guedes, Sandro de Vargas Schons

“…This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of mycotoxigenic fungi in fish farm water and mycotoxins in feeds for farmed tambaqui (<i>Colossoma macropomum</i>). …”
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Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming by Hadi Veisi, Michael S. Carolan, Ali Alipour, Anahita Valiollahi Besheh

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Editorial: Smarter Farming: New Approaches for Improved Monitoring, Measurement and Management of Agricultural Production and Farming Systems by Matt J. Bell, Alexis Comber

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Survey of drug use and its association with herd-level and farm-level characteristics on German dairy farms by M. Abdallah, J. Bethäuser, F. Tettenborn, A. Hein, M. Hamann

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FarmCan: a physical, statistical, and machine learning model to forecast crop water deficit for farms by S. Sadri, J. S. Famiglietti, M. Pan, H. E. Beck, A. Berg, E. F. Wood

“…In this study, we designed FarmCan, a novel, robust remote sensing and machine learning (ML) framework to forecast farms' needed daily crop water quantity or needed irrigation (NI). …”
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Sustainable Pig Farm via Management of Nutrient and Co-Product Flows in the Farm by Kęstutis Venslauskas, Kęstutis Navickas, Mantas Rubežius, Vita Tilvikienė, Skaidrė Supronienė, Modupe Olufemi Doyeni, Karolina Barčauskaitė, Aušra Bakšinskaitė, Kristina Bunevičienė

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Farm-level factors associated with lameness prevalence, productivity, and milk quality in farms with automated milking systems by R.D. Matson, M.T.M. King, T.F. Duffield, D.E. Santschi, K. Orsel, E.A. Pajor, G.B. Penner, T. Mutsvangwa, T.J. DeVries

“…From April to September 2019, 75 herds with AMS in Ontario, Canada, were visited, and data on barn design and farm management practices were collected. Data from AMS were collected, along with milk recording data, for the 6-mo period before farm visits. …”
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A new RANS-based wind farm parameterization and inflow model for wind farm cluster modeling by M. P. van der Laan, O. García-Santiago, M. Kelly, A. Meyer Forsting, C. Dubreuil-Boisclair, K. Sponheim Seim, M. Imberger, A. Peña, N. N. Sørensen, P.-E. Réthoré

“…<p>Offshore wind farms are more commonly installed in wind farm clusters, where wind farm interaction can lead to energy losses; hence, there is a need for numerical models that can properly simulate wind farm interaction. …”
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A model of farmers intentions towards organic farming: A case study on rice farming in Thailand by Phaibun Yanakittkul, Chuenjit Aungvaravong

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Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Farming System Choice: A Farm-Level Space-for-Time Approach by Paulo Flores Ribeiro, José Lima Santos

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Economic evaluation of selected animal welfare measures in pig farming from a single farm perspective by Katharina Schlosser, Sören Mohrmann, Ludwig Theuvsen

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Changes in some physical and chemical parameters of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) farms in Bahmanshir River and outlet of farms by F. Kianersi email ; M. Mazravei; S. Dehghan; GH.A Zarshenas; S. Farokhi Moghadam

Subjects: “…Shrimp farm; Water quality; Pollution; Khuzestan provinces; Persian Gulf…”
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Review: Precision livestock farming, automats and new technologies: possible applications in extensive dairy sheep farming by M. Odintsov Vaintrub, H. Levit, M. Chincarini, I. Fusaro, M. Giammarco, G. Vignola

Subjects: “…Extensive farming…”
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Does youth participation in the farming program impact farm productivity and household welfare? Evidence from Nigeria by Abdulrazaq K. Daudu, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Zoumana Bamba, Suleiman B. Shuaib, Bola A. Awotide

“…This study attempts to estimate the impact of youth participation in farming programs on farm productivity and welfare using rice-growing household data from northern Nigeria. …”
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Association between antimicrobial usage, biosecurity measures as well as farm performance in German farrow-to-finish farms by S. Raasch, M. Postma, J. Dewulf, K. D. C. Stärk, E. grosse Beilage

“…To investigate between-farm variations of high and low usage the treatment incidence (TI) per age group in 60 German farrow-to-finish herds was qualitatively and quantitatively analysed and linked to biosecurity measures, and herd management characteristics. …”
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Farm Type and High Tunnel Management: Connections between Farm Characteristics and High Tunnel Outcomes in Indiana by Analena B. Bruce, Elizabeth T. Maynard, Julia C.D. Valliant, James R. Farmer

“…Our findings show that farmers managing different types of farms have taken distinct approaches to integrating and managing high tunnels on their farms, with important implications for farm-level outcomes. …”
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Capturing farm diversity with hypothesis-based typologies: An innovative methodological framework for farming system typology development. by Stéphanie Alvarez, Carl J Timler, Mirja Michalscheck, Wim Paas, Katrien Descheemaeker, Pablo Tittonell, Jens A Andersson, Jeroen C J Groot

“…Creating typologies is a way to summarize the large heterogeneity of smallholder farming systems into a few farm types. Various methods exist, commonly using statistical analysis, to create these typologies. …”
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Coordinated Implementation of Climate-Smart Practices in Coffee Farming Increases Benefits at Farm, Landscape and Global Scale by Paul Günter Schmidt, Christian Bunn, Christian Bunn

“…We review literature on CS agriculture, CS landscapes, and coffee farming to firstly identify the different CS-practices applicable to coffee farming systems, and then group these into functional groups that represent the main functional trait targeted by different practices within coffee-farming systems. …”
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