Spring and early summer resources may indeed be sufficient for colony establishment and initial growth even in simplified landscapes, possibly as a result of large scale farming of OSR.
Originally there were many herds that roamed land owned by the British Crown and the native Māori, but many were eradicated with the intensification of large scale farming and forestry operations combined with increased mechanization that decreased the need for stock horses.
As the Times notes, these companies also encourage the industrialization of their suppliers — creating incentives for large scale farming which destroys forest land.
Approvingly citing the example of Brazil — where masses of indigenous landholders were displaced in favor of large-scale farms — Collier concluded that "to ignore commercial agriculture as a force for rural development and enhanced food supply is surely ideological".
The ability to sell the contracts would also lead to the establishment of large-scale farms, which some economists say would help China's agricultural industry better compete in a global marketplace.
In the mid-20th century, developments in animal nutrition and farm technologies as well as economic competition spurred the emergence of large-scale farms, often driving out small farmers who could not afford the large capital investments or survive the lower prices.
But after a hundred years of cultivation, there emerged thousands of large-scale farms accommodating 15.9 × 106 population (Dong, 2013).
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has given farmers who voluntarily sign up a year to comply while the army simultaneously steps up forced eradication of large-scale farms.
Such measures, in place in Iowa, Utah and Missouri and being considered in other states, make it illegal to film the internal operations of large-scale farms.
Postweaning diarrhoea (PWD) is usually the main infectious problem of large-scale farms and is responsible for significant losses worldwide [ 1, 2].
Postweaning diarrhoea (PWD) in pigs is usually the main infectious problem of large-scale farms and is responsible for significant losses worldwide.
