DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBUST SENSOR CALIBRATION FOR A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE RISING PLATEMETER TO ESTIMATE HERBAGE MASS ON TEMPERATE SEMINATURAL PASTURES

Development of a Robust Sensor Calibration for a Commercially Available Rising Platemeter to Estimate Herbage Mass on Temperate Seminatural Pastures

Rising platemeters are commonly used in Ireland and New Zealand for managing intensive pastures.To assess the applicability of a commercial rising platemeter operating with a microsonic sensor to estimate herbage mass with its own equation, the objectives were (i) to validate the original equation; (ii) to identify possible factors hampering its ac

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Harnessing the Power of Mechanization: A Multivalued Treatment Effect Analysis on Productivity for Chinese Smallholders

Developing countries, in their pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, are intensifying their efforts to promote agricultural mechanization, with China at the forefront, through comprehensive policy revisions aimed at enhancing mechanization levels.This study employs multivalued treatment effect (MVTE) and quantile treatment effect (QTE) meth

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Survival of natural populations of Austropotamobius pallipes in rivers in Bizkaia, Basque Country (North of Iberian Peninsula)

Some relict populations of the native crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes have been located in rivers in Bizkaia, (Basque Country, Spain), and its population numbers and dynamics, and habitat conditions have been studied for three years.The first descriptive results are given in this paper.The native crayfish populations must be considered residual

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