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KPU Southwest British Columbia Small-Scale Farm Enterprise 2015 Budget: Rhubarb

This enterprise budget presents costs and returns for a 0.5 acre of rhubarb grown on a small-scale mixed vegetable farm in southwest British Columbia, Canada.

Economic and environmental benefits of reducing nitrogen fertilization in potato fields

This study evaluated the economic and environmental tradeoffs of three nitrogen application rates (0, 90, and 120 kg N per hectare) in potato production.Decades of intensive cultivation, along with challenges caused by inherent soil properties (poor drainage, fine soil textures), in the Fraser…

Improving on-farm climate mitigation and adaptation through stewardship programs

The objective of this research was to quantify the ability of three agricultural stewardship programs to increase on-farm climate mitigation and adaptation, indicated by improvements in soil carbon storage and soil water regulation.The stewardship programs examined in this study have been…