Farmer Article Reviews Samples For Students

The essay “Farm Girl”, written by Jessica Hemauer, is one that is full of wisdom and detail about a little girl growing up on a farm and how her time spent doing chores there has helped her to prepare for most of life’s great difficulties (Hemauer, 2011). She writes this essay with such experience and confidence in her knowledge and emotions while describing daily duties such as waking up at 5:00 a.m. at ten years old and “cleaning out various huts and pens.” This essay significantly describes the emotions and responsibilities in the life of a farm girl (Hemauer, ...

The development of landowner-farming contract is crucial. The main idea is the focus on transaction cost approach, which is essential on issues of contact choice between land owners and farmers in the modern agriculture. The model begins from focusing on the contracts that are found in Midwestern agriculture. The model stresses the various incentives that are associated with the contacts, as well as elaborating on the choice between the cash-rent contracts and cropshare contracts. The initial domain of developing the model focuses on the farming in Midwest, which entail ownership of equipment and ownership of land. The issues of ...

In Big, Smart, and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farmer, Keim explored the how Marsden Farm has revolutionized farming by combining the best aspects of two practices – organic and industrial farming – while addressing sustainability and food supply issues. This combination is called an alternative version of farming, which was described as “smart, green and powerful” (Keim). The goal of this alternative version of farming is to adopt practices in industrial farming to meet the target yield while eliminating the use of chemicals and avoiding the consequences of industrial farming on soil quality and yield. The alternative was a result ...

Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction

Agriculture is considered as a science and art of animal and plant keeping, therefore in land utilization there are basically two methods by which crops are produced for food and income generation (Pimentel, 2005). They include: conventional and organic systems of farming. Conventional land farming entails the usage of artificial fertilisers that are chemically made so as to increase yields of plants, pest protection, and higher animal output using hormones and antibiotics (Acs et al., 2009). Alternatively, organic land usage is the reliance of techniques such as plant waste, rotation of crops, animal waste, and natural-pest controls to improve ...

The article is focused on the issue of understanding social cognitive mapping (SCM) and analyzing whether it is a black box method as claimed by Farmer and Xie, or not. The authors try to demonstrate empirically what SCM measures and according to their view, it measures peer interactions. They also state that Farmer and Xie’s suggestion that the probe measures developmental processes, perceptions and shared preferences is incorrect, as such wide range of different phenomena cannot be measured by such a simple method. Neal & Neal (2013) prove their argument by stating the fact that there are more precise ...

Introduction 3

History of Aquaculture 3
Aquaculture and biotechnology 4
Public response to Aqua-biotechnology 4
Ethical Implications of aqua-biotechnology 5
Sustainability of the environment 6
Preserving the existing species 7
Conclusion 8

References 9

Introduction
Plausibly, one of the biggest problems facing the 21st century humanity is food insecurity. This has been occasioned by a rather unpredicted population increase across the world which is mounting too much pressure on the natural resources for food. Aquatic food has been one of the greatest sources of food for humankind. According to statistical predictions, the demand for products is set ...

The story is about the Mexican immigrant family travel “the circuit” of crop harvesting jobs around California. The story reflects the extreme poverty and poor living conditions which the immigrant’s family was experiencing. The oldest son narrates the story explaining the disappointments they pass throughout to the hard work, constant movement, and seasonality of the job as well as the children having to skip school to work.
The theme of the story is the survival of the immigrant family in a foreign land. Use of imagery paints the theme. The speaker describes the structures and life in a dramatic ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

The first article titled Home Economics: Will Rising Food Prices Ruin the Recovery written by Michael Schuman in the Time discloses the problem of food prices and its importance to the global economy. The rise of prices is usually caused by droughts and other unsuitable weather conditions. However, the food is one of the basic conditions of life on the Earth. Therefore, the rising of food prices causes two very important changes. First, it is consumption effect. Families, who are to allocate larger share of their weekly income on food basics, are forced to save money on something else: ...

Jared Diamond is a scientist and an author with a controversial, if not unpopular opinion about the influence of agriculture on our society. In his essay, Diamond begins his case against agriculture by first pointing out some of the ostensibly positive aspects that have been attributed to it by the progressives. The professed advantages include diet that is varied and plentiful, tools, material goods, and healthy, long and secure lives (Diamond). However, Diamond argues that we shouldn't take these benefits at their face value.
Paleopathologists are able to examine some of these assertions by looking at signs of disease ...

Introduction

Bio-fuel is a form of energy which is obtained from renewable animal and plant materials. It includes; ethanol, biodiesel, green diesel, and biogas. Its development can be drawn into three generations; first, second and third, depending on the source of production. Bio-fuel crops such as sunflower, corn, sugarcane, rapeseed etc. are the source of first generation bio-fuels. A good example is ethanol. In the United States, ethanol is manufactured from corn whereas in Brazil sugarcane is used in the production of ethanol. In the case of second generation, bio-fuels are manufactured from agricultural waste materials, forestry, poplar, willow, perennial grasses ...

Consuming beef is without a doubt a pleasant practice among many individuals. In fact, not many people pose to think about the kind of treatment the animals were compelled to endure before their slaughter. In the article, This Is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is It Good Enough? McClelland seeks to provide a rationale over the ethical principles about beef consumption. Precisely, are animals subjected to a conducive slaughter environment before their death? Is their demise made humane as many people think? He mentions that the United States enforced the Humane Slaughter Act in 1958. However, over the decades, ...

Article Review

Article Review

Introduction

The article, “Managing the Transition to a Free Labor Society: American Interpretations of the British West Indies during the Civil War and Reconstruction” by Nichola Clayton is devoted to the analysis of written sources regarding the slavery abolition during the Civil War in America and American isles. The main idea of the article is shown in the summary: American reaction to the abolition, shift in views of the white population and the political parties of the USA, an attitude of the Republicans to the black population freedom and black farmers. Firstly, the author describes the Morant Bay rebellion ...

Review of Collapse: Prologue, (2005) Viking Press, New York
Summary: The prologue of the book is the part wherein Diamond summarizes the contents of the entire book in just one whole paragraph. The comparative methods employed by Diamond on his book aims to better understand the reasons for the collapse of previous civilizations, as well as the direct relation over the environmental issues. The prologue enumerates the five fatal reasons that contribute to the collapse of the society. By studying the civilizations of Norse, Vikings and other ancient peoples, Diamond was able to lay out these five reasons ...