The agriculture and horticulture development board's cereals and oilseed chapter has organised an initiative called Monitor Farms to encourage discussion and knowledge sharing among its members.
This paper investigates two examples of group extension for knowledge exchange and innovation among farmers: discussion groups within the Beef Technology Adoption Programme (BTAP) in Ireland and monitor farms in Scotland.
Flexibility to change feed demand quickly when conditions dry may reduce the variability of income between years (i.e. reduce risk) in comparison to the average farm in the region represented by a regional monitor farm model.
We distinguish levels of learning and adoption, and argue that in general these are higher for discussion groups than for the wider monitor farm participants, although the most substantial practice changes can be expected for the monitor farmer.
Most civets that are sold in China as a delicacy are farmed, Dr. Wang said, and the government should ensure civet farms are distant from bat colonies, monitor farmed civets for SARS-like viruses and allow just noninfected animals to go to market.
Plenty of companies need to inspect factories and pipelines, monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land.
The algorithm proposed in this study will be useful to the farmers as it can monitor farm's power status continuously and autonomously.
We designed replicated experiments and monitored farm-scale production to evaluate the effects of landscape position, vegetation type, and year on yields of monocultures and mixtures.
