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
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
A. Kuipers1, P. Galama1, H. Wemmenhove1 1Expertise Centre for Farm Management and Knowledge Transfer and Livestock Research, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Corresponding author: dr. Abele Kuipers abele.kuipers@wur.nl ABSTRACT This paper illustrates how future oriented dairy farmers and researchers in...
- January 23, 2019
Genevieve Clarke1, Terry Griffin2, Cameron Taylor1, Chris Sounness1 1Birchip Cropping Group, Birchip, Victoria, AUS 2Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA ABSTRACT A survey was undertaken across Australia via grower groups specific to cropping systems. The...
- January 23, 2019
Gregg Ibendahl 1, Elizabeth A. Yeager 1, and Terry W Griffin1 1Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA twgriffin@ksu.edu ABSTRACT Precision agriculture technologies have been available for adoption and utilization at the farm level for several decades. Some...
- January 23, 2019
A/Prof. Leanne Wiseman Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland ABSTRACT This paper describes the changing legal landscape that farmers must navigate when adopting digital farming technologies and modernising their farming enterprises. The digital transformation that is taking place on farms and...
- January 23, 2019
Joanne Tingey-Holyoak UniSA Business School, Adelaide, SA ABSTRACT Primary producers need strategies and tools to assist in monitoring water use with a view to improving physical and financial productivity. Farm accounting systems, if present, lack the sophistication to allow...
- January 23, 2019
