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Journal articles on the topic "Illinois Farm Supply Company"
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Kumar, Sunil, and Ashutosh Verma. "Empowering Farmers of Madhya Pradesh: An Initiative of Madhya Bharat Consortium of Farmers Producer Company Limited." South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases 9, no. 1 (November 13, 2019): 148–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277977919881416.
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Madhya Bharat Consortium of Farmers Producer Company Limited is a federation of producer companies that aims to empower the farmers to overcome various challenges from farm to market. It has made multiple interventions that have benefitted the farmers. The company plans to expand its outreach to one million farmers but is facing a few dilemmas related to its operations. It has incurred significant losses in its vegetable business and has to decide whether to continue it or not. The company markets quality seeds but due to emerging competitive scenario needs to relook at its value chain. The main bottleneck in its supply chain is lack of infrastructure. It has to decide whether to outsource or build its own facilities. The present case is aimed for discussion in the operations management or supply chain management courses. The learning objective of this case is to understand the value chain of agricultural products operationalized through farmer producer companies which are a new form of business organization in India. It further highlights the challenges faced by the farmers and validates the fact that the change in the value chain of agricultural products empowers the farmers.
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Chamim, Anna Nur Nazilah, Agil Peggy Irawan, and Ramadoni Syahputra. "Implementation of Automatic Transfer Switch on the Solar Home System at the Goat Farm Houses." Journal of Electrical Technology UMY 4, no. 2 (December 22, 2020): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/jet.v4i2.10680.
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In Pirak Mertosutan Hamlet, Sleman, Yogyakarta, there is a goat farm complex with about 600 m2. The intricate lighting comes from the National Electricity Company (PLN) and the Solar Home System (SHS). SHS is the primary energy source for lighting, while PLN is a secondary energy source that replaces it when the power supply from SHS goes out. So far, the transfer from SHS to PLN has been carried out by humans. This fact is considered inefficient because the SHS supply does not always die during the day. At night, the officers who move the difficulties have to go to the cage complex located relatively far from residential areas. To facilitate the transfer of energy sources from SHS to PLN and vice versa. It does not need to be done by officers. It is necessary to automatically install a means to automatically move the two sources automatically. This tool is the Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS). This tool can move the energy supply from SHS to PLN and vice versa. By considering the specifications used in the SHS in the farm complex, the ATS is made and then installed in the farm complex. After the installation is carried out, the functional test is carried out. The ATS installation test results show that the ATS can work according to the design; namely, when the SHS is off, the source used is automatically switched to PLN. When the SHS is on, the source that was using PLN will automatically switch to SHS.
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Gabitov, I. I., F. R. Shaihutdinov, and A. V. Negovora. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE IN-SERVICE AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AS AN EFFECTIVE FACTOR FOR BETTER EQUIPMENT." VESTNIK OF THE BASHKIR STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY 55, no. 3 (September 25, 2020): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31563/1684-7628-2020-55-3-95-99.
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Farming equipment in Russia suffers from low energy supply. Some regions of the country managed to stop a sharp decline in the equipment level. These regions have fewer machines that have com98 pleted their expected service life and average age. In the Republic of Bashkortostan, the state agricultural enterprise «Bashselkhoztekhnika» is the leading company involved in major overhauls and improvements for agricultural businesses' in-service machinery. The paper highlights that the programmes of subsidizing agricultural producers' costs for capital overhauls and improvements in farm machinery have significantly increased the availability factor of tractors and combine harvesters and enhanced their expected service life.
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Uski, Sanna, Erkka Rinne, and Janne Sarsama. "Microgrid as a Cost-Effective Alternative to Rural Network Underground Cabling for Adequate Reliability." Energies 11, no. 8 (July 30, 2018): 1978. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en11081978.
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Microgrids can be used for securing the supply of power during network outages. Underground cabling of distribution networks is another effective but conventional and expensive alternative to enhance the reliability of the power supply. This paper first presents an analysis method for the determination of microgrid power supply adequacy during islanded operation and, second, presents a comparison method for the overall cost calculation of microgrids versus underground cabling. The microgrid power adequacy during a rather long network outage is required in order to indicate high level of reliability of the supply. The overall cost calculation considers the economic benefits and costs incurred, combined for both the distribution network company and the consumer. Whereas the microgrid setup determines the islanded-operation power adequacy and thus the reliability of the supply, the economic feasibility results from the normal operations and services. The methods are illustrated by two typical, and even critical, case studies in rural distribution networks: an electric-heated detached house and a dairy farm. These case studies show that even in the case of a single consumer, a microgrid option could be more economical than network renovation by underground cabling of a branch in order to increase the reliability.
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Stidd, Benton M. "Saharatheca lobata n. gen. and sp.: a new medullosan (seed fern) pollen organ from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Illinois." Journal of Paleontology 65, no. 1 (January 1991): 160–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000020278.
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Several specimens of a pollen organ containing Monoletes pollen occur in a single coal ball collected from the Herrin No. 6 Coal at the Sahara Coal Company Mine in southern Illinois. Specimens are 3–4 cm long, up to 1 cm wide, and are either bilobed or trilobed; 5–7 pollen sacs are arranged along each side of a discontinuously sclerified ground tissue plate extending into each lobe. The vascular supply from the peduncle breaks up by repeated dichotomies and one bundle descends along the outer side of each pollen sac. The mode of dehiscence and the structure of the tip of the organ remain unknown. Each lobe (and contained sporangia) is hypothesized to be derived from an ancestral fertile frond segment bearing pendulous sporangia.
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Sekar, C. "Post-harvest losses in the mango supply channel in Tamil Nadu state, India." INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 11, no. 2 (September 15, 2020): 217–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/irjaes/11.2/217-225.
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A study was conducted to identify mango value chains and analyse the post-harvest losses along them in the major mango-growing areas of Tamil Nadu state in India. The post-harvest losses were estimated using survey data collected during 2016-17 from 400 farmers; 60 households; and 100 traders consisting of wholesalers, commission agents, exporters, processors and retailers and 60 consumers in Tamil Nadu. Six major mango value chains were found in the production catchments through which the mango fruits reached consumers in different forms. Overall, the post-harvest losses at the farm level were estimated at 7.08 per cent. At the primary wholesaler level the losses were estimated at 7.30 per cent and at the processing level at 8.70 per cent. At the secondary wholesaler level the losses were estimated at 10 per cent. Maximum losses were observed at the retail level (14.97%), most likely as a result of improper post-harvest handling, lack of proper storage facilities, and rough handling of fruits by consumers who check fruit quality by squeezing. It is recommended that establishing procurement yards near farms, minimizing transaction points in the mango value chain, establishing value added and processing units near production catchments, initiating farmer cooperatives similar to Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL) in India model, involving collection of fruits directly from the farmers by cooperatives, initiating Farmer Producer Company (FPC) and establishing a refrigerated transport system for well graded fruits right from farm to consumption centres would minimize post-production losses of mango.
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Boghdady, T. A., Ali J. Alamer, Mina M. Yousef, Ahmed M. Elshafee, M. A. Mostafa Hassan, and A. Monem Seif. "Technical and Economic Study of Powering Poultry Farm in Egypt Using PV-Biomass on-grid Energy Generation System: Case Study." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS 16 (April 15, 2021): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232016.2021.16.7.
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The main goal of this work is to find economical alternative energy supply solution for poultry industry in Egypt. By studying the economic feasibility of using hybrid renewable energy resources as main source of power for existing poultry farm in Egypt to reduce existing operational cost of energy and add resilience and reliability dimensions for the operation of poultry farm in rural locations. In addition to reducing the environmental impact of using poultry litter in its fundamental form. This hybrid system connected to grid is used in the company to avoid instability problem in which the company suffered when they applied biomass energy source as main power source to their farm in Lebanon. The grid will be used as energy storage during the excess energy production form the hybrid system and to add some resilience and reliability dimensions to the hybrid system to prevent instability to the farm ‘s grid due to the high penetration of renewable energy. The economic feasibility is evaluated of this configuration using HOMER versus different configurations and sizes for these systems including the existing situation of depending only on grid as main source of energy. The results showed that the best configuration is 400 kW biomass generator, and 500 kW PV plant will satisfy the average demanded load of 9660 kWh daily with using the grid as backup energy source. The cost of energy for this configuration will be 0.0894 $/kWh which is lower than continuing existing situation depending on the grid as main source of power in which its Cost of Energy (COE) will reach during the lifetime of the project to 0.184 $/kWh due to the increase in COE in Egypt by 8%.
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Čermák, Bohuslav, Jana Hnisová, Eva Petrášková, Kamila Pejchová, Miloslav Šoch, Bohuslav Vostoupal, and Dumitru Tucu. "POSSIBILITIES OF INFLUENCING THE RESULTS ON PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH OF CALVES WITH BIOPOLYM PREPARAT." Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series E: Food Technology 17, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aucft-2013-0009.
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Abstract The two farms were conducted experiments with added preparation Biopolym FZT for rearing calves. Additions were applied in the operating conditions where the first farm was gradually calves continuously supplemented to the barn. On the other farm was loading section, and after three months, the calves are picked once. Experimental groups were added preparation Biopolym FZT to supply water for the entire group. The first attempt to farm the results were not significant due to the occurrence of diarrheal disease. In the second company in the experimental group were found higher weight + 0,141kg/day gains than control groups. Between the detected blood parameters in the control and experimental groups was not statistically significant. The results were within the reference range. The tendency Impairment of copper in the blood heifers are similar within the region and in the future could have an adverse effect on reproductive performance. On the data logger ammonia and carbon dioxide, located in the barn were no significant differences in measured values. Values of N-compounds in the feces of calves in both were statistically significant. There was a certain tendency in reducing the average values of N-compounds in experimental groups of calves.
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Williams, David J., and Karim H. Al-Juboory. "IN VITRO MICROPROPAGATION OF SELECTED CULTIVARS OF HOSTA." HortScience 26, no. 6 (June 1991): 727F—727. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.26.6.727f.
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University of Illinois, Department of Horticulture, Plant Science Lab, 1201 S. Dorner, Urbana, IL. Calli were initiated from immature inflorescences of selected cultivars of Hosta in the light on Hosta initiation medium (Carolina Biological Supply Company, 1986). Three cultivars, Francee, Birchwood Park's Gold, and Wide Brim Sum & Substance, produced microshoots. The calli were compact and green in color. The highest percentage of callus formation occurred with the Francee cultivar. Nakaiana, Golden Edger, Golden Scepter, Obscura, Sum & Substance, and Shade Fanfare produced only calli. The calli were transferred to modified Murashige and Skoog salts. The media containing 5 × 5 factorial combinations of NAA and BA (0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 mg/l). The results show that media with NAA at 1.0 and 2.0 mg/l in combination with BA from 0.5 to 2.0 mg/l produced the highest number of microshoots per explant.
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Mariyono, Joko, Jaka Waskito, Apri Kuntariningsih, Gunistiyo Gunistiyo, and Sumarno Sumarno. "Distribution channels of vegetable industry in Indonesia: impact on business performance." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 5 (October 9, 2019): 963–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-11-2018-0382.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the distribution channels of vegetable sectors in Indonesia, its economic impact on the performance of vegetable sales and the factors affecting marketing channels selected by producers. Design/methodology/approach The study employed qualitative and quantitative methods. A market survey was qualitatively conducted at producer, intermediary, wholesaler, hotel and food processing company as well as retailer levels. Producer survey was quantitatively conducted at the farm level, by interviewing 556 randomly selected farm households. Structural equation modelling was employed to accomplish the objectives of the study. Findings Marketing channels for vegetables in Indonesia was complex and relatively long. Farmers decided to select particular channels because of business circumstance and their knowledge. Distance and gentleman’s agreement with traders limited farmers to choose the desirable marketing channel. Marketing channels affect business performance in terms of high sales and profit. Research limitations/implications This study only pays attention to the supply side of vegetables. The effect of marketing channels also encumbers the consumers, which are beyond this study. Other studies are expected to highlight the consumer side. Originality/value This study focused on smallholder agribusiness players. This study uses two surveys as data sources: market survey and producer survey. The market survey serves as vital information to design producer surveys.
Books on the topic "Illinois Farm Supply Company"
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Work hard, have fun, make money: The Tractor Supply story. Brentwood, Tenn: Tractor Supply Co., 2004.
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M, Wearmouth John, ed. The Cornwell chronicles: Tales of an American life on the Erie Canal, building Chicago, in the Volunteer Civil War Western Army, on the farm, in the country store. Bowie, Md: Heritage Books, 1998.
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Smith-Nonini, Sandy. Seeing No Evil. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0005.
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Labor relations are a paramount consideration in crop agriculture, a labor-intensive industry that is dependent on land. The U.S. government has long regulated the supply of foreign farm labor on behalf of agribusiness, and that role became more critical as the industry restructured itself in the competitive neoliberal climate since the early 1990s. The H2A program, which permits quasi-private labor brokers to import Mexican “guest workers” for seasonal work on U.S. farms, expanded after 1990 into states in the mid-South, which was also experiencing new flows of undocumented immigrants. North Carolina emerged as the state importing the most H2A workers. This chapter draws on the case of the North Carolina Growers Association, the state's large H2A brokerage, to examine the relationship between the neoliberal state and guest workers during the 1990s. It shows that during the 1990s, the North Carolina H2A program morphed into a model of contractual labor relations that represented a case of “government by proxy,” not unlike other public-private partnerships formed in the neoliberal era. In this case, the state delegated responsibility for labor supply manipulation, control of workers, and regulatory oversight directly to private brokers who publicly represented and shared revenue streams with agribusiness growers.
Book chapters on the topic "Illinois Farm Supply Company"
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Hoffmann, Roald, and Pierre Laszlo. "The Say of Things." In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199755905.003.0020.
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In search of a chemical conversation, we are on a farm in Uniow, a little Ukrainian village in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, just before the onset of World War I. In the farm yard we see a big, steaming, lead-lined iron pot. The men have mixed some potash in it (no, not the pure chemical with composition KOH from a chemical supply company, but the real ash from burning good poplar) and quicklime, to a thickness that an egg—plenty of eggs here, judging from the roaming chickens—floats on it. Elsewhere in the yard, women are straining kitchen grease, suet, pig bones, rancid butter, the poor parts skimmed off the goose fat (the best of which had been set to cool, cracklings and all). This mix doesn’t smell good; they would rather toss the kitchen leavings and bones into the great iron pot, but the fat must be free of meat, bones, and solids for the process to work. They are making soap. Not that we had to go that far, near where one of us was born, for soap was prepared in this way on farms from medieval times until the twentieth century. Fat was boiled up with lye (what the potash and quicklime made). The reaction was slow—days of heating and stirring until the lye was used up, and a chicken feather would no longer dissolve in the brew. One learned not to get the lye on one’s hands. The product of a simple chemical reaction was then left in the sun for a week, stirred until a paste formed. Then it was shaped into blocks and set out on wood to dry. And inside the steaming pot, deep inside, where the fat and the lye are reacting? There is the conversation we are after, a hellishly animated molecular conversation. The lye that formed was an alkaline mixture of KOH, Ca(OH)2, and NaOH. In the vat one had hydroxide (OH-) ions, and K+, Ca2+, Na+ all surrounded in dynamic array and disarray by water molecules. Contaminants aside, the fat molecules are compounds called esters, in which an organic base, glycerol, combines with three long-chain hydrocarbon chains.
Conference papers on the topic "Illinois Farm Supply Company"
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BOJAR, Waldemar, Marek SIKORA, and Grzegorz DZIEŻA. "CURRENT CHALLENGES OF AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS AGAINST FARMING ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.137.
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The paper investigates circumstances determined modern agriculture and agribusiness challenges and shows methods ensuring sustainability of value-added agriculture and rural areas taking into account, inter alia, climate change, healthy food, organizational and technological progress. The aim of the article is to show that combining the agribusiness circumstances and methods allows to ensure sustainable development, value-added agriculture and rural areas. To verify adjustment farming processes according set up goals the questionnaire survey on farm equipment and information systems was carried out in 2017 in Kujawy & Pomorze region. The questionnaire was sent to all participants in the supply chain of that particular company. The challenge facing modern agriculture is the ability to efficiently implement farm innovations, acquire new knowledge and effective use of the farming progress achievements. Negative effects of intensive farming for environment cause to seek for solutions let face economic and environmental challenges for contemporary agriculture and rural areas development. Serious threatens in a climate change can cause imbalance in food supply and demand. Observed higher frequency and severity of adverse weather events require genotypic adaptation. Hence, some studies on genetic progress in those crops adaptation were presented. Also some approaches how to assess and collect data for yield gap analysis, and to summarize the yield gap explaining factors were identified. The presented results showed that although management and edaphic factors are more often considered to explain the yield gap, both farm characteristics and socio-economic factors often explain the yield gap.