Leases Can Set the Pattern

Every farm lease to some extent sets the pattern of farming operations for the particular farm involved. A survey made in two Iowa counties points up some of the advantages and problems associated with cash and share leases

Does Your Lease Limit Profits?

Farm production practices and crop livestock combinations change. But leases don\u27t always follow suit to keep up with them. Some leases actually limit greatest profits for both the landlord and the tenant

Is Your Lease Up to Date?

While leasing itself doesn\u27t lead to farming inefficiency, some of the arrangements which have become customary over time do. These imperfections need to be corrected; they can be by keeping lease arrangements flexible

Is Crop Diversification the Answer?

Risk and uncertainty about the future combine to form one of the most important problems for farm operators. The good manager considers the risks and tries to make his production and investment decisions more than a hit or miss affair. The factors causing variations in yields, prices and costs can\u27t be predicted with perfect accuracy, but past experience, research results, farm outlook information, etc., can be helpful in making useful estimates

Enhancing caregivers’ understanding of dementia and tailoring activities in frontotemporal dementia:two case studies

PURPOSE: To describe the intervention process and results of the Tailored Activities Program (TAP) in two people diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). METHOD: TAP is an occupational therapy (OT) community-based intervention program that prescribes personalised activities to reduce difficult behaviours of dementia. The OT works with carers over a 4-month period (assessment, activity prescription, and generalisation of strategies). Study measures were collected (blind researcher) pre- and post- intervention: cognition, functional disability, behavioural symptoms, and Caregiver Confidence and Vigilance. RESULTS: A 51-year-old woman with behavioural-variant FTD could consistently engage in more activities post-intervention, with scores indicating improvements to behaviour, function, and caregiver confidence. A 63-year-old man with semantic variant FTD engaged well in the prescribed activities, with scores reflecting reduced carer distress regarding challenging behaviours and improved caregiver vigilance. CONCLUSIONS: TAP is efficacious in FTD, allowing for differences in approach for FTD subtype, where behavioural symptoms are very severe and pervasive

Structural changes in commercial agriculture

The basic idea of the conference on Structural Changes in Commercial Agriculture was planted in the spring of 1964 by Earl 0. Heady. He outlined for the North Central Farm Management Research Committee his concern about the kind and amount of response to both current and prospective structural changes in the commercial farm firm. Many changes represent adjustments to technological and other innovations originating in marketing, research, and educational agencies serving farmers.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/card_reports/1025/thumbnail.jp

Agricultural Research Bulletins, Nos. 378-391

Volume 30, Bulletins 378-391. (378) Farm Family Housing Needs and Preferences in the North Central Region; (379) Agricultural Cooperatives in Iowa: Farmers' Opinions and community Relations; (380) Evaluation of Variance Components From a Group of Experiments with Multiple Classifications; (381) Returns From and Capital Required for Soil Conservation Farming Systems: A Study of a Specific Population of Farms and Soils; (382) Principles of Conservation Economics and Policy; (383) Economics of Crop Rotations and Land Use: A Fundamental Study in Efficiency with Emphasis on Economic Balance of Forage and Grain Crops; (384) Nutrient Uptake by Soybeans on Two Iowa Soils; (385) Defrosting and Cooking Frozen Meat; (386) Relationship of Crop-Share and Cash Leasing Systems to Farming Efficiency; (387) Demand and Diversity of Use of Electricity on 16 Farms in the Eastern Livestock Area of Iowa; (388) Resource Productivity in Iowa farming: With Special Reference to Uncertainty and Capital Use in Southern Iowa; (389) Cost of Manufacturing Butter: A Study Based on Data From 13 Iowa Creameries; (390) Substitution Relationships, Resource Requirements and income Variability in the Utilization of Forage Crops; (391) Some Obstacles to Soil Erosion Control in Western Iowa</p