Modernization processes affect all parts of food value chains, including primary production.
Here, most research on agricultural innovations focuses on the perspective of farmers …

Labor issues are an increasingly important challenge to agriculture operations across
various crops, including agricultural firms in food and specialty crop (eg, ornamental …

Transplanting of unrooted plant cuttings to produce rooted liner trays is a manufacturing
process that requires considerable manual labor. However, increasing labor cost and …

Using a socioeconomic database collected by face-to-face interviews of nurseries and
greenhouses, empirical models were estimated to measure the economic impacts of …

A soil moisture sensor-based automated irrigation system was trialed in a commercial
ornamental nursery over the 2014-2015 growing seasons. In both years, use of the sensor …

Socioeconomic determinants of the level of mechanization of nurseries and greenhouses in
the southern United States Page 1 AIMS Agriculture and Food, 3(3): 229–245 DOI: 10.3934/agrfood.2018.3.229 …

Comparative total irrigation water use (A–C) and growth indexes (D–F) for three cultivars of
geranium using a soil moisture sensor-based automated irrigation system (sensor-based) or …

The nursery industry produces and sells plants for landscape and environmental purposes
and represents a major sector within the US agricultural industry. In recent years, the nursery …

This work describes workers' socioeconomic characteristics and evaluates the determinants
of workers hiring decisions among 215 randomly selected wholesale nurseries and …

This study aims to guide the analysis process and the interpretation of results. Closely linked
to the conceptual framework that was chosen for the purposes of this study. Science the birth …