Consumers that are more knowledgeable about organic farming will be willing to pay a higher price premium (indicator 31) (DFAF 2001).
The fair's pedestals are generally reserved for local farm beauties willing to have their likenesses sculptured in 90-pound blocks of butter and for outstanding local artisans like the baking maestro Marjorie Johnson, poised once again to take on all comers, backed by the more than 2,550 ribbons she's won to date.
In total, 123 dairy goat farms (36.8%) out of 334 eligible farms were willing to cooperate.
The party which gives billions in agricultural subsidies to corporate farms is willing to cut into their profits just to deny food to kids.
To promote organic farming as an effective way to reduce the environmental risks of and dependence on chemical PPPs, the framework conditions for those conventional farms that are willing to convert to organic farming must be improved.
Some of these are actual: relative profitability of existing farm enterprises will vary from farm to farm and those farmers with healthy 'enterprise gross margins' (financial value of output less direct, variable costs of production) will be less willing to switch to DECs, other things being equal.
The selection criteria included the following: the farmer should be a permanent resident of the village, be engaged actively in goat farming for several years, have witnessed issues and constraints of goat farming, and be willing to cooperate with the interviewer.
Random sampling was not possible, because all the farms that were willing to participate were needed.
Although many residents want to see the farm closed, others remain willing to negotiate.
The area surrounding the location of the biogas plant comprises both agricultural plots and farms, and it was from a catchment area within an approximately 3-km radius of the plot on which the digester was to be built that we recruited local people, mainly farmers and farm workers, who were willing to participate in our study.
