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Evaluating Success Factors And Challenges Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers: A Texas Case Study, Katie Tritsch, Ken Mix, Michelle L. Edwards, Manuel Piña Jr. Sep 2022

Evaluating Success Factors And Challenges Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers: A Texas Case Study, Katie Tritsch, Ken Mix, Michelle L. Edwards, Manuel Piña Jr.

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Literature on small farms in the U.S. is limited though they are the most numerous farm type, generate over twenty percent of agricultural production, and are more likely to be operated by historically underserved (i.e., beginning, minority, veteran, women, young) farmers than large-scale farms. This article details an online survey study of small-scale agricultural producers using a purposive sample from Texas. We used cross tabulations to evaluate qualitative operational and demographic (e.g., age, gender) factors of success, finding several significant variables with moderate effect sizes. Generally, producers regarded quality of life as more important to success than profitability. Producers’ top …

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Finding Aid For The Katye L. Patridge Collection (Mum00137) Jan 2022

Finding Aid For The Katye L. Patridge Collection (Mum00137)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Papers of Katye L. Patridge document her career as a home demonstration agent in the agricultural extension service of Mississippi and Virginia (1924 to 1930) as well as her higher education at Tulane University School of Social Work and a career in social work in the 1930s and 1940s that included employment in Mississippi by the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, and the State Board of Public Welfare.

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Has Maize Overtaken Our Reality? A Personal Briefing, Biochemical Comparison, Agrigenomics, And History Of Maize, Nader Pahlevan May 2021

Has Maize Overtaken Our Reality? A Personal Briefing, Biochemical Comparison, Agrigenomics, And History Of Maize, Nader Pahlevan

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Maize (Zea mays ssp. Mays) is a revolutionary cereal grain that has raced to the world’s most popular staple crop, transforming societies and impacting history. This paper aims to build and portray the story maize has created through its journey to world domination. The important details that encompass this literature are maize’s cultural significance in my life’s story, the comparison of various starches broken down into amylose and amylopectin ratios, a summative historical account on maize’s spread throughout numerous parts of the old world, and the genetical analysis of maize that explains the key features that have led …

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Challenges And Benefits Experienced By Mississippi Schools In The Adoption Of Farm To School Programs, Manuel Aldair Franco Pech May 2021

Challenges And Benefits Experienced By Mississippi Schools In The Adoption Of Farm To School Programs, Manuel Aldair Franco Pech

Honors Theses

Mississippi obesity rates are the second highest in the United States. An appropriate target group to combat the state’s high obesity rates are school age children (ages 18 and under), because healthy eating habits developed at this age translate into adult years. An avenue to encourage and develop healthy eating habits are Farm to School (F2S) programs, which provide in-school accessibility to healthy, locally produced foods. The objective of this study was to analyze the results from the 2015 United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) F2S Census, which collected details regarding F2S participation across the country, to determine the benefits …

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A Baseline Documentation Report For The Delta Wind Birds Sky Lake Nature Reserve, James Dubberly Apr 2021

A Baseline Documentation Report For The Delta Wind Birds Sky Lake Nature Reserve, James Dubberly

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The purpose of this baseline documentation is to conduct a report on our subject property and discuss the findings. A conservation easement is established by upholding a certain standard of a property’s current condition which makes a baseline documentation necessary for an easement to be enacted. Baseline documentation reports are used as a resource to monitor and enforce the legal agreements of the conservation easement. The subject property is currently owned by the Delta Wind Birds organization. In our scenario, this documentation report will serve to aid in the conversion of our subject property into a conservation easement in which …

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Cost-Benefit And Acceptance Analysis Of Alternative Nematode Control Practices On Organic Dairy Goat Farms: A Case Study In France, Sylvain Quiédeville, Hervé Hoste, Yves Le Frileux, Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Steffen Werne, Simon Moakes Dec 2020

Cost-Benefit And Acceptance Analysis Of Alternative Nematode Control Practices On Organic Dairy Goat Farms: A Case Study In France, Sylvain Quiédeville, Hervé Hoste, Yves Le Frileux, Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Steffen Werne, Simon Moakes

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This article assesses the costs, benefits, and acceptance of alternative control practices of Gastro-Intestinal Nematodes (GIN) for a typical organic dairy goat farm in France. A participatory Structured-Decision-Making (SDM) framework was used to guide focus group discussions, with an economic farm model and the Rogers and planned behavior theories used within the SDM framework. The study showed that the implementation of alternative GIN control practices can be economically profitable. An increased gross margin of €41 per dairy goat was calculated, which was mainly due to a decrease in the milk withdrawal cost. The simplicity to use or implement the alternative …

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Finding Aid For The Thomas G. Abernethy Collection (Mum00001) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Thomas G. Abernethy Collection (Mum00001)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Thomas G. Abernethy represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1943 and 1973. The 454 boxes in this collection contain files created during Abernethy's tenure in office.

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Spectroscopic And Computational Studies Of The Agricultural Active Ingredient Dicamba, James Johnson Apr 2020

Spectroscopic And Computational Studies Of The Agricultural Active Ingredient Dicamba, James Johnson

Honors Theses

3,6-dichloro-2-methoxy benzoic acid, more commonly known as Dicamba, is the active ingredient in an array of pesticides used on farmlands across the globe. Dicamba’s mode of action works by mimicking the plant hormone auxin, which is synonymous to growth hormones in mammals. The mimicking of auxin results in excessive elongation and growing, which is eventually fatal for plants when the rate of growth can no longer be sustained. Dicamba has risen in prominence in recent years due to drift damage as a result of Dicamba’s high volatility. Having the ability to identify Dicamba is crucial for the agricultural industry. The …

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George Finley Ledger 20, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 20, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 16, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 16, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 15, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 15, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 10, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 10, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 8, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 8, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 7, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 7, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 6, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 6, George Finley

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George Finley Ledger 5, George Finley Apr 2019

George Finley Ledger 5, George Finley

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 7, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1971

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 7, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 6, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1970

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 6, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 5, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1965

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 5, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 4, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1960

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 4, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 3, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1952

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 3, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 2, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1946

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 2, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 1, Bobby Mitchell Jan 1942

R. L. Mitchell's Farm Ledger. Box 4: Folder 1, Bobby Mitchell

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Farm ledger containing crop production by an individual worker. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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King And Anderson Plantation Ledger 16, King And Anderson Plantation Jan 1928

King And Anderson Plantation Ledger 16, King And Anderson Plantation

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King And Anderson Plantation Ledger 14, King And Anderson Plantation Jan 1918

King And Anderson Plantation Ledger 14, King And Anderson Plantation

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Receipt From J. E. Womack For J. A. Alexander, 6 July 1906, Henry Marx And Sons Jul 1906

Receipt From J. E. Womack For J. A. Alexander, 6 July 1906, Henry Marx And Sons

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Invoice from Henry Marx and Sons. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Ledger 2, Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Jan 1905

Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Ledger 2, Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company

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Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Ledger 1, Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Jan 1905

Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company Ledger 1, Sunflower And Eastern Railway Company

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Receipt From Henry Marx And Sons, 19 November 1902, Henry Marx And Sons Nov 1902

Receipt From Henry Marx And Sons, 19 November 1902, Henry Marx And Sons

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Invoice from Henry Marx and Sons. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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Receipt From Till Brothers For B. H. Wade, 24 March 1902, Henry Marx And Sons Mar 1902

Receipt From Till Brothers For B. H. Wade, 24 March 1902, Henry Marx And Sons

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Invoice from Henry Marx and Sons. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

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