Case Study Optical Distortion

“There are 3,000 ranchers growing around 300,000 ostriches in several states like Texas, California, Arizona, Indiana, and Illinois.” (Watson, “Ostrich Farming Grows in Popularity”) This was stated by Mac Young, the executive director of the American Ostrich Association; it shows that multiple ostriches are on farms, and that it is very common in some states.

Organic ranchers and dairy farmers in California also feel the effects of the drought. They rely on green pasture to feed their animals a healthy diet. Due to the lack of rain, the pasture are drying up and the ranchers have to purchase supplemental organic hay from other states. In an attempt to fund the purchasing of this out of state hay, the organic farmers are selling herds to businesses for hamburger meat and the small

In the U.S., the concept of factory farms primarily involving animals such as pigs, cattle and chicken began in the 1920’s as a way to increase efficiencies by capturing

In the Sutter County, most of the land are consider as farm land. The total percentage of farmland is about 97%. It almost cover the entire county. Therefore, agriculture farming is playing a key role of the county economic, especially the crop sales. In the terms of types of land in farms, there is not surprising that cropland is one of the bigger share in the county. But moving on to the State of California, pasture is the number one type of land and it contains half of the total percentage. The reason that California is surprising me because of the market value of products sold. Even though pasture is the number one type of the farmland in California, the livestock

The July 2015 Cattle on Feed report found the number of cattle on feed in large feedlots to be slightly more than 10 million, as reported by the Capital Press. That number is up

The industrial park, which would ideally be located in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, would be capable of holding up to 12,000 cattle at one time.

With the rapid rise of the industrial food animal production system, an increasing number of food animals once raised on pastures are now raised

Alabama is a leader in the United States of America in agriculture. According to Alabama Agri-culture Statistics supplied by the United States Department of Agriculture, Alabama was ranked 3rd in broiler production, 2nd in catfish sales and 14th in egg production in 2011. Although the number of farms has drastically dropped from about 225,000 farms spanning over 22 million acres in 1950 to 50,000 farms spanning 7.5 million acres in 2010, Alabama still remains a leader in the field of agriculture. Nationally and locally the drastic decrease can be traced to the installa-tion and expansion of CAFOs. Defined by the EPA, a CAFO is an “agricultural operation where animals are kept and raised in confined situations (EPA 12).” In order to be qualified

Over the past few decades, livestock farming has gone through a dramatic transformation that has adapted to consumer wants and needs. Food production has shifted from small, family-owned farms to large agricultural farms. The larger farms often have corporate contracts, and meat and dairy products are produced with single species buildings or open air-pens. There are two different types of large farms: animal feeding operations (AFO) and concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). A CAFO raises animals for the consumption of eggs, meat, and milk. CAFOs usually contain a high density of animals and are large-scale industrial agricultural facilities (Hribar 1). CAFOs contain many animals in a confined space that have little or no access to

For consumers to be interested in ODI’s product, they would likely have to meet three conditions:

For centuries farming was primarily done by small farms owned by the families that lived there. Over the last few decades though the industry has shifted away from family farms and to CAFOs. CAFO stands for concentrated animal feeding operations and they are large commercial farms meant to maximize the amount of possible production. Since the 1960s the industry has shifted to CAFOs significantly. These facilities keep their animals tightly packed often in large buildings as close as possible while birds are often stacked on top of one another. Maximizing space, capacity and production being the goal, not living conditions.

A prism placed in your prescription eyeglasses tricks your brain into thinking that both eyes are working in unison. This can ease a lot of symptoms, which are caused by the disparity in the images produced by eyes that do not move together.

has the potential to increase their competitive advantages by allowing such farms to charge higher prices for their crops, find new markets, and enter buying consortia that lower the prices of farm suppliers (Roe, Batte, & Diekmann, 2014). However, small American farms have lower rates of e-commerce adoption than do other small and medium enterprises (Briggeman & Whitacre, 2010). Greater competitiveness for small farms could represent a gain of hundreds of millions of dollars in efficiency and profit for the U.S. economy. The United Stated Department of Agriculture/National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA/NASS) has not conducted any surveys soliciting data about the state of e-commerce adoption among small or large American farms, although there is general, cross-study agreement that anywhere from a fifth to a half of small farms are effective users of e-commerce (Briggeman & Whitacre, 2010; Dan & Qihong, 2014; Roe et al., 2014), not enough is known about precisely how and why farmers strategically manage e-commerce, to the extent that they use it at

This will allow Megan to share her experiences with you and tell the story behind where our food supply comes from. This is where they go above and beyond share the passion to those who will take their position in future generations. For example, Maschhoff’s over the years has gone hand and hand with the National Junior Swine Association, of being a proud sponsor, giving scholarships to those who are continuing their education. Being a part of this program where the exhibitor and membership numbers as high as NJSA is huge for them to get the future advocators that have the passion for the swine industry more involved on the other side of things. I certain know coming from a small show pig operation of farrowing only 40 sows a year and showing them at the local, state and national level is totally different the Maschoff family; where this family has 7500 sows and will have 100,000 wean to market space which means they will raise 5 million hogs a year. Per site they will have 6000 head. Every Monday and Thursday they will get 2000 head to come into the finisher. This is where it becomes a small world; all these hogs come from the gestation operation which is

California is an extraordinarily productive agricultural region with over 350 different crops are grown here and it has been the highest producing state over the past 50 years. (California Agricultural Production Statistics) Californian farmers have always proven their quick adaptation to new methods and technology; however, even after more than a decade of one of the most intensive research efforts, researchers are baffled on why Californian farmers are proving reluctant to adopt the beneficial conservation tillage farming practices that originated from the Midwest.