Cole Ehmke1 and Dr. Mariah Ehmke1 1Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming ABSTRACT Blockchain is emerging as a new tool agricultural producers, supply chain managers, food suppliers, and retailers may use to coordinate supply networks, facilitate...
- January 23, 2019
James Mintert1, Nathanael Thompson2, David Widmar3, Courtney Bir4 1Director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. 2Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. 3Economist...
- January 23, 2019
Chris. Lewis1, K Verhoek1, I Williams2 1BakerAg 2Pioneer Brand Products Corresponding Author: Chris Lewis. chrisl@bakerag.co.nz. ABSTRACT Benchmarking is the practice of establishing the relative performance of a business against an appropriate standard, which can be self-set targets or peer...
- January 23, 2019
Greg Lundstrom Program Coordinator, Tamar NRM Inc, Mowbray, TASMANIA 7250 Greg.Lundstrom@launceston.tas.gov.au ABSTRACT A belief that the current natural resource management (NRM) delivery model in Australia is failing to provide tangible on ground outcomes within the farming sector is proving...
- January 23, 2019
Samantha Flight1, Lydia Turner1, Symon Jones1, Lesley Irvine1 1Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Cradle Coast Campus, Burnie, Australia Corresponding author: Samantha Flight; Samantha.Flight@utas.edu.au ABSTRACT The Tasmanian dairy industry is predominantly pasture-based and pasture consumption is a key driver...
- January 23, 2019
PHILIPPA DAWSON1, KIM SEAGRAM 1, TOM LEWIS1 1Fermentation Tasmania Ltd. ceo@fermentasmania.com ABSTRACT Fermentas is a newly formalised industry cluster, tasked by Food Innovation Australia Ltd to drive industry growth by applying a smart specialisation focus to the skilled production...
- January 23, 2019
Jakob Vesterlund Olsen1, Toke Emil Panduro1, Cathrine Ulla Jensen1, Jesper S. Schou1, Jens-Martin Roikjer Bramsen1, Marie Lautrup1, and Michael Friis Pedersen1 1Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen *Corresponding author, jvo@ifro.ku.dk ABSTRACT In this paper we present...
- January 23, 2019
Jesper S. Schou1 and Jakob Vesterlund Olsen1 1Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen Coresponding author: jvo@ifro.ku.dk, ABSTRACT The paper presents preliminary results form a real-life project in which five economic services are pursued through multifunctional land...
- January 23, 2019
Felix Rodriguez-Firpo 1, Thiagarajah Ramilan 1, Nicola M. Shadbolt 1 1Massey University, New Zealand ABSTRACT The dairy industry is an important component of New Zealand economy particularly in terms of foreign exchange earnings, local communities and employment, contributing around 3.5%...
- January 23, 2019
Johannes van der Merwe1 and D.C SPIES1 1School for Environmental Management and science, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa Corresponding author: Johannes D van der Merwe, Johnny.vandermerwe@nwu.ac.za ABSTRACT Since the abolishment of Apartheid after 1994, one of the...
- January 23, 2019
