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The results obtain from this study will help agriculture firms' management and policy makers to determine how successful the agriculture firms is, especially in achieving efficiency and productivity, make efficient production decisions and also to determine areas in which improvement is needed.
I argue that current US agrofuels production and politics reinforce longstanding and unequal political economic relationships in industrial agriculture.
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Ani L. Katchova, Mary Clare Ahearn 
25 Citations
To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to provide revised estimates for new farm entrants into US agriculture.
They also generate useful information on the ‘bias in technical change’ in US agriculture.
Instead, food and agriculture resemble other domains of US policy in which corporations and trade associations leverage advantages in money and personnel to protect their bottom line.
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Burak Ozdogan, Anıl Gacar, Hüseyin Aktaş 
30 Jun 2017
73 Citations
While the penetration of the two companies is currently not enough both as volume and quantity, the applications used for digital agriculture by them are parallel with the applications in developed countries.
Given the similar labor challenges faced, in general, by the US specialty crop agriculture, results could be applicable to the entire industry.
The results show how there are ample margins for innovation while supporting requests and needs coming from companies that wish to employ a sustainable and optimized agriculture industrial business, investing not only in technology, but also in the knowledge and in skilled workforce required to take the best out of it.
We show how up to 300–550 million people could be fed by crops grown in the acquired land, should these investments in agriculture improve crop production and close the yield gap.