29 articles in this issue
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Jaime De Pablo-Valenciano,Miguel A. Giacinti-Battistuzzi,Valentín Tassile,Tomás García-Azcárate
The business model applied to the fresh tomato trade from Almería is well known in Spain and abroad. The changes in demand are forcing export companies to change their trade strategies to become or remain competitive. The purpose of this paper is to know ... see more
Cristina Olarte,Jorge Pelegrín,Eva Reinares
Wine is a traditional beverage with a saturated market, in which consumers are open to innovation. In this context, an innovative experience was launched to create a new natural sparkling red wine with a view to diversifying production and studying its ac... see more
María Martínez-Victoria,MariLuz Maté-Sánchez-Val,Narciso Arcas-Lario
Cooperatives are especially important in current agri-food markets. These companies have responded to the current demand requirements with greater market orientation strategies to attract and satisfy customers. To do so, cooperatives have adopted differen... see more
Andres R. Jácome,Alberto Garrido
The coffee market is distinguished for being volatile and uncertain in terms of domestic and international prices. Arabica and Robusta coffee are produced in 23 provinces of Ecuador. A decade-long decline of coffee production prompted the Ecuadorian gover... see more
Inmaculada Marques-Perez,Inmaculada Guaita-Pradas,José-Luis Pérez-Salas
The estimation of the discount rate is decisive for a reliable economic valuation. The discount rate has to be adjusted for the risks related to the company, the sector which the company has its market, and the risks related to the investment project. We ... see more
Otilia-Vanessa Cordero-Ahiman,Eduardo Santellano-Estrada,Alberto Garrido
Numerous studies have analyzed the factors that determine food security and explored the problem from regional or national points of view. However, there has been less research targeting an understanding of the food security problem at the household level... see more
Francisca Fernández-Tirado,Carlos Parra-López,Mercedes Romero-Gámez
Rapeseed oil is expected to be increasingly used in Spain as raw material to produce biodiesel to the detriment of extra-EU imports of biodiesel mainly based on soybean oil from Argentina. Therefore, the environmental impacts produced throughout the life ... see more
Andrea Dal Bianco,Maria J. Estrella-Orrego,Vasco L. Boatto,Alejandro J. Gennari
As a consequence of the rapid and significative decrease in domestic demand, to avoid structural surplus traditional wine producing countries have been forced to export a growing share of their wine production. This article empirically investigates Argent... see more
Imre Ferto,Zoltán Bakucs,Štefan Bojnec,Laure Latruffe
The article investigated farm investment behaviour among East (Hungarian and Slovenian) and West (French) European Union farms using individual farm accountancy panel data for the 2003-2008 period. Despite differences in farm structures, except for the pr... see more
Francesco Marinello,Andrea Pezzuolo,Donato Cillis,Alessandro Chiumenti,Luigi Sartori
Soil compaction is a critical issue in agriculture having a significant influence on crop growth. Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is accounted as a crop susceptible to compaction. Reduction of leaf area, final yield, and root quality parameters are reported... see more
Zhong Tang,Yaoming Li,Cheng Cheng
The decomposition and burning of straw results in serious environmental pollution, and research is needed to improve strategies for straw collection to reduce pollution. This work presents an integrated design of multi-functional rice combine harvester th... see more
Krishnaswamy R. Aravind,Purushothaman Raja,Manuel Pérez-Ruiz
In agriculture (in the context of this paper, the terms “agriculture” and “farming” refer to only the farming of crops and exclude the farming of animals), smart farming and automated agricultural technology have emerged as promising methodologies for inc... see more
Melina S. Almada,Alda González,José A. Corronca
Sustainable agro-ecological design is challenging when the goal is self-regulation of the system. The objective of this study was to evaluate if the agropastoral design system affects the spider community, as spiders are the main predators in these produc... see more
Gustavo Santoyo,Claudia Hernández-Pacheco,Julie Hernández-Salmerón,Rocio Hernández-León
Microbial soil communities are active players in the biogeochemical cycles, impacting soil fertility and interacting with aboveground organisms. Although soil microbial diversity has been studied in good detail, the factors that modulate its structure are... see more
Mona Motemani,Mohammad Chamani,Mohsen Sharafi,Reza Masoudi
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of a-tocopherol in cryopreservation media on the bull sperm quality after thawing. Semen samples were collected from six Holstein bulls using artificial vagina twice a week. Semen sam... see more
Aranzazu Meana,Miguel Llorens-Picher,Amaia Euba,José L. Bernal,José Bernal,María García-Chao,Tierry Dagnac,Jose A. Castro-Hermida,Amelia V. Gonzalez-Porto,Mariano Higes,Raquel Martín-Hernández
A cross-sectional study was carried out in Galicia, NW Spain, in order to estimate the magnitude of honey bee colony losses and to identify potential risk factors involved. A total of 99 samples from 99 apiaries were collected in spring using simple rando... see more
Ivan Mato,Natividad Pesqueira,Camino Factor,Fernando Camino,María L Sanjuán,Eduardo Yus,Francisco J. Diéguez
The paper was designed to assess the influence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection status of cows at culling (antibody positive vs negative) on carcass traits: weight and conformation and fat cover scores. A generalized least sq... see more
Clara Jabal-Uriel,Raquel Martín-Hernández,Concepcion Ornosa,Mariano Higes,Eduardo Berriatua,Pilar De la Rua
Bumblebees provide pollination services not only to wildflowers but also to economically important crops. In the context of the global decline of pollinators, there is an increasing interest in determining the pathogen diversity of bumblebee species. In t... see more
Wendy M. Rauw,Luis A. García-Cortés,Morris Villarroel,Luis Gomez-Raya
The response of cultured rainbow trout to their mirrored image was investigated. Thirty fish were placed individually in two novel aquariums consecutively for 10 min each. Walls in one aquarium were covered with mirrors on all four sides, whereas the wall... see more
Ruth Rodríguez-Bermúdez,Marta Miranda,Inmaculada Orjales,Francisco Rey-Crespo,Nieves Muñoz,Marta López-Alonso
Organic systems are highly dependent on the environment and require animals well adapted to local conditions. In Spain, organic dairy farmers are not satisfied with the productive performance of their herds and ask for technical advice to obtain suitable ... see more
Saman Lashkari,Akbar Taghizadeh,Hamid Paya,Søren K. Jensen
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of replacing corn with orange pulp (OP) on growth performance, rumen fermentation, nutrient digestibility and blood parameters of fattening lambs. Twenty male lambs were placed in individual pe... see more
Magdalena Simlat,Michal Nowak,Kamil Brutkowski,Marcin Hydzik,Andrzej Zielinski,Maria Mos
The quality of wheat grains is often negatively affected by pre-harvest sprouting (PHS), a complex trait with a poorly understood genetic background. In this study two wheat cultivars differing in their susceptibility to PHS were used to investigate expre... see more
Patrick Riga,Leyre Benedicto
In general, plants grown under diffuse light yield higher biomass than those grown under direct light as a result of a more uniform distribution of the light across the plant canopy. We compared the effects of a light-diffusing plastic film and a clear pl... see more
Lucía Mestre,Gemma Reig,Jesús A. Betrán,María-Ángeles Moreno
The agronomic performance and leaf mineral nutrition of the non-melting clingstone peach cv. ‘Catherina’ was evaluated on seven hexaploid plum rootstocks, as well as one Prunus persica seedling. They were assessed over a period of 15 years in a field tria... see more
Alejandro B. Falcón-Rodríguez,Daimy Costales,Dianevys Gónzalez-Peña,Donaldo Morales,Yuliem Mederos,Eduardo Jerez,Juan C. Cabrera
Physico-chemical features of chitosan affect its biological activity on plants. In this work, the influence of chitosan molecular mass in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) yields was investigated. By using chitosan polymers of high (CH-1) and low (CH-2) molec... see more
Rubia Rasool,Makhan S. Bhullar,Gurjeet S. Gill
Phalaris minor Retz. has evolved multiple herbicide resistance in wheat growing areas in northwestern India. An understanding of the effect of growth stage on herbicide tolerance of wheat and control of P. minor will help in selecting the most appropriate... see more
Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Mattar,Mohamed S. El-Marazky,Khaled A. Ahmed
In this study, the irrigation water infiltration rate (IR) is defined by input variables in linguistic terms using a fuzzy-logic approach. A fuzzy-logic model was developed using data collected from published data. The model was trained with three fuzzy m... see more
Modesto Pérez-Sánchez,Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero,Helena M. Ramos,P. Amparo López-Jiménez
The usefulness of models depends on their validation in a calibration process, ensuring that simulated flows and pressure values in any line are really occurring and, therefore, becoming a powerful decision tool for many aspects in the network management ... see more