Farm Case Studies Samples For Students

- Worksheet entry figures

Cash flow figures and adjustments:

The price used for sales estimation is the £50/MWh tariff that is guaranteed by the government. On the other hand, the megawatts used for the two projects over the 15years period include 60,000 MWh for the small wind-farm and 120,000 MWh for the large wind-farm project.

Cash flow items from the profit and loss account

Adjusted figures
- Government grant cash-flow is accounted for in year 1 since it is received in the first year although spread over the 15 years for purpose of profit and loss computation. In that respect the grant receipts for the two projects is calculated as ( ...

Production Possibilities Frontier

The production possibilities curve is a geometric representation of production combinations of two products that can be achieved with an economy using the available resources efficiently. The resources are fixed and the technological condition in the economy constant. Any production along production possibility curve represents an efficient and full employment of the available limited resources (Fte.org, 2014).
The diagram above shows a PPC in a nation’s economy. The above economy can only produce product Y and X. If the economy uses all its resources and technological conditions efficiently, it will produce along the PPC curve (Krugman & Wells, 2006). Different points ...

Animal sacrifice was generally practiced during the ancient times involving the Pagan and the Judaism traditions. Today, this sacrifice is popularly practiced during kosher butchering by the Orthodox Jewish specialists in America. During sacrifice, nonhuman and slow slaughter which is traumatic than commercial slaughter methods are used. In times when the animal flinches, cries out or shows unwillingness, the sacrifice is declared void and null. The animal to be sacrificed is scrutinized for good health and the blood of the sacrificed animal is considered a God’s potion. Pagans examine the entrails, wrap them around bones, and cover it with ...

Identify the client:

The client identified from the case is Mr. Arnold Kallestad. He is the hay farmer accused by Peter and Tanya Rothing of breach of implied warranty of merchantability.

Identify the client’s problem:

This is in line with the expectations that he sells good hay. It would also be safe to assume that prior to the case being taken to court that Mr. kallestad would have been approached by the Rothing’s in the instance that they realized that their animals were expressing symptoms of poisoning after diagnosis from their veterinary. Mr. kallestad then instead of taking cognizance of the situation and conducting investigations ...

Impacts of Pollution on Wildlife

Introduction
Impacts of pollution on wildlife has been a controversy and a contradicting issue since it has been experienced in the world and specifically in the united States of America for a long period of time. There are environmental laws which are hard on some manufacturing and production industry in North America and this makes them to be held responsible of various wildlife cases. The environmental laws in the United States of America have enacted endangered species Act in which it is a general rule which has held several companies responsible of the reduction of Wolverines in Montana glacial ...

Introduction2

The opportunities and challenges of the biofuel industry..3

The demand of farm and food products by biofuel4

Socio-political and economic factors of biofuel4
Technological impact of biofuel5
Legal and regulatory factors surrounding the development of biofuels6
The ethical debate surrounding biofuels6
Food security in a growing world population7
The future of biofuels in Canada8
Conclusion..8
Work cited..9
Biofuel
Introduction
The change in preference on the type of fuel needed across the globe has been influenced by the need to have enough fuel to sustain its demand. The global supply may not be enough to sustain the worldwide demand. Fuel ...

Stage 1: Facts related to the problem situation.

Four people come together on a new venture; they happen to be family members.

They are engage in selling olive oil as a family business for years and now wish to expand.

Initial enthusiasm and zest for “Tapenade” gives away to frustrations and strained relations.

Each member starts off with a given specific role: Barb investigates on other farms engaged in a similar activity, Barry researches on new machinery requirements, Christine a business plan, and Carl on a marketing plan for the new venture.
Conflict between Carl and Christine on ownership of the business and lack of clarity of their future roles. Both are ...

Introduction

Fair play in business practices is essential to the maintenance of a self-sustainable corporate environment. Precisely, all the parties involved in any business activity need to embrace ethical principles while following the legal provisions in any commercial venture. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that Kallestad breached the fundamental provisions of an implied warranty by selling substandard products to Peter and Tanya Rothing. According to Murthy and Blischke (2006), an implied warranty is a contract arising from the operation of the law guaranteeing that the goods to be sold are merchantable and are appropriate for ...

Finance

Executive Summary
With growing concerns related to climate change, the farming profession is exposing the farmers to significant risk of low yields or other crop related failure. Moreover, with weather trend highly unpredictable, farmers always live under the cloud of high uncertainty relating to their livelihood.
Therefore, farmers are understanding the significance of crop insurance and how these contracts mitigate the risk factor associated with the farming profession. Important to note, American farmers have two insurance options: Multiple Peril Crop Insurance(MPCI) and Crop-Hail Insurance. While the MPCI is a federal crop insurance program and is run through public-private ...

Background

Over the past 100 years, more than 60 percent of world’s wetlands have been destroyed as people search for land to settle on, farm, and establish other types of business investments. Currently, wetlands cover 6 percent of the world’s surface providing a wide array of environmental services, including soil erosion control, water storage and filtration, a buffer against flooding, biodiversity maintenance, nutrient recycling, nursery for fisheries, and carbon storage among others.

However, destruction and drainage of these ecosystems has led to large amounts of carbon emissions equivalent to 40 tons of carbon per hectare per year for degraded swamp ...

The business, Farm Burger is a joint that serves burgers since April 2010. Jason Mann and George Frangos were the primary entrepreneurs of the business. The main objective of the business is to come up with a burger experience that is superlative and connects the producers and the consumers directly. This objective is however met by the main challenge, which is to have control on prices of beef products. The stakeholders of Farm Burger are the consumers and the producers which it helps to link together (Mok, Sparks, & Kadampully, 2013). The producers include the butchers, ranchers, and local farmers. ...

Conventional Farming vs. Organic Farming

Agriculture is the process by which food in grown on a large scale. It is larger than just the family garden that is intended to sustain a family for a year. Agriculture is intended to sustain an entire community and when it is practiced on a very large scale, it is done to feed thousands. Cultures around the globe have been involved in food production to sustain communities for tens of thousands of years or more. According to John Unsworth at IUOAC Agrochemicals, “Up until the 1940s inorganic substances, such as sodium chlorate and sulphuric acid, or organic chemicals ...

The taxation of the capital gains made during the disposal of the property by James will be considered under the Income Tax Assessment Act of 1997, section 104-105 which deals with capital gains for individuals. This is wholly embedded in the Goods and services Tax act of 1999 (div 9-11). Using this act, considerations will be made on each tax event under the capital gains tax and analysis made on how each will be treated under the act. In the disposal of the property, either a capital gain or a capital loss is made, and such a gain or loss will have to ...

Analysis of the Documentary Food, Inc. through the Lens of Ethical Theories and Ideas

Some may wonder whether the food choice is an ethical issue. After all, we make these choices at least three times a day and our individual decisions influence the global industry of food growth, production and processing. As Jones, Cardinal and Hayward remind us, we exist in society and are connected to other people. This is why our choices, in our case, the food choices, affect other people, and their decisions influence us as well (2006, p. 3). Various theories of ethics propose different ways of viewing the problems of food production and consumption and seek solutions in distinct ...

Optical Distortion, Inc

Optical Distortion, Inc. was the first American firm that manufactured the first non-human ODI contact lens for the first time for agricultural chicken farmers. The technological innovation is aimed to target the chicken farm businesses that have traditionally used the Debeaking or Beak Trimming procedure for removal of beaks, which could lead to health issues in chickens and also adversely impact egg production capacity. ODI contact lens would be manufactured using hydrophilic polymer substance and the finished product would be patent protected with certain appealing features to become a productive and cost-effective solution to poultry industry in USA. It should ...

Science

Impacts of a Borderless Society
Breakfast: Orange juice, eggs, toast, butter, jam, bacon, tea
Breakfast: The orange juice was made with oranges from Florida, freshly squeezed. The eggs came from my Mom’s friend’s farm. My Mom made the bread and the butter was from Wisconsin. Someone my Mom knows made the jam. I think the bacon came from Nebraska but that may be where it was packaged or where the package came from (the label wasn’t very clear). The tea was from Sri Lanka.

Lunch: Burger King Hamburger, juice in a box, French Fries

Lunch: The hamburger was probably from a big containment-type feedlot out in ...

International Microeconomics: Trade Dispute Case Study ‘USCOOL’

Introduction
The advent of bilateral trade talks started all before the general agreement on tariff and trade (GATT). Although the reciprocal tariff act of 1934, came into action after the smooth Hawley tariff act of 1930 as a result of the stock market crash. The reciprocal tariff act served as a negotiating model for GATT. GATT prompted countries to negotiate and reciprocate tariff reduction. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in 1995 after 8 rounds of talk under GATT from 1947 to 1994 to discuss varying issues of trade. WTO was formed to provide an avenue to manage the ...

Introduction

Increasingly difficult geographic conditions and harsh climatic conditions coupled by climate change have emerged as key causes of migration as persons affected by the crisis escape from the rigors that come with the conditions. In most cases, it is vulnerable persons who are most affected by the extreme geographical and climatic conditions and who seek to find ways of grappling with the problem. Most of the time, migration has always presented itself as a viable solution for the vulnerable persons to other areas in a bid to cushion themselves against the tough conditions. Nonetheless, migration, albeit seen as a viable option by ...

Q.1
The elements of the plaintiff’s claim for damages against the hotel as the employer include loss of income/earnings or economic loss and pain and suffering. The complaint against the animal keepers as guests is a breach of the duty of care constituting negligence. Examples of animal diseases that one may contract as a result of being around or handling animals include zoonotic diseases such as anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, arbovirus, and Campylobacteriosis. To avoid infection by these diseases, the care that one should include the use of personal protective equipment such as boot, aprons, overalls, goggles and gloves, ...

Directions

The provided case study illustrates the case of one Mr. Red Smart, a hospitalized, elderly diabetic patient who equally suffers from hypertension and a host of other medical conditions. Mr. Red uses crutches due to an earlier fall and he experiences a sharp pain at home and falls unconsciousness and upon the doctors diagnosis, Myocardial infarction (MI) is detected. He is admitted to the hospital for three weeks but he considers to return home contrary to his family opinions. He also suffers from memory lapses.

Scenario

Red is a 60 year old man who lives with his elderly wife aged ...

Role of GIS in Promoting a More Sustainable Future in Energy: A case study of theStädteregion Aachen in Germany
In the last decades, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. Populations in the cities have doubled up with more than 74% of the country’s population live inside urban centres in developed countries. In developing countries, approximately 44% of the population are living in urban settings. With the influx of people in urban areas, there has been an increase in the consumption of energy. With increased use of fossil fuel, there has been constant pollution by gases like ...

Before arguing whether Chipotle is a socially responsible organization, it is necessary to define social responsibility. Social responsibility can be addressed as an active behavior of an organization, aimed to benefit a society (Neck, Lattimer& Houghton 154). In this regard, it is particularly important that the organization goes beyond the norms, provided by the industry, in order to prevent and counter social issues (Neck, Lattimer& Houghton 155). In addition to a proactive approach, an organization can also choose between accommodative, defensive and reactive approaches (Neck, Lattimer& Houghton 156). However, particularly proactive approach, taken by an organization, allows stating that ...

Terry and Dawn Hall are both well-travelled with a wealth of experience in the hospitality sector. During their travels, the Halls identified three patterns that informed their belief that they could venture into the fresh and healthy foods segment. First, the demand for fresh, natural food far exceeded the supply. Second, the viability of small businesses was waning. Third, there was an inverse correlation between the supply of healthy food and the prevalence of obesity. From these patterns, especially the first one, the Halls determined that there was a gap – business opportunity – in the market that they could occupy ...

Abstract

The Crown and Waikato Tainui has been having conflicting standards in the management of the Waikato River. The report is basically giving details on the background of the different stands that each team has pertaining the river and how the conflict resolution was approached.
Tainui believes that the river lies in their ancestral land and that the Crown has not right interfering with the management of the river and its resources. This initiated the need for a deed settlement between the two parties. The deed settlement was signed in august 2008 and this brought the genesis of shared management ...

Redesign of Business Systems and Process

Introduction
The decline on retail sales growth and development for the Dairy Farm Group of Companies (DFG) trace its roots back in 1997. DFG a leading Hong Kong located food retailer that had established operations in various large cities in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the reasons that attributed to the decline include economic crises that hit most of the Asian nations in the late 1997s, increased competition from the European and US retail chains that introduced their products to the Asian markets. The outcome of the competition impacted on DFG by the foreign stores witnessed the sales of ...

1) Who is Luis Valdez?
He is an American film director, writer, actor and a play writer. The man who was born in 1940 is believed to be the father Chicano theater in America. He also initiated Chicano movement and has broadened his scope in theatre and arts.2) What connection is there between the Teatro Campesino and the UFW?
Basically, Teatro Campesino is a troupe that was formed as a branch of United Farm workers in 1965. All the initial actors were from the farmworkers and most of their performances described lives of their audiences.3) What is an acto?
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