CD farmers displayed rather distinctive farming strategies.They cultivated cash crops that simultaneously provided crop residues for feed, and they even grew food crops.This reduced their dependence on the public food distribution system.CD farmers owned some farm machinery and demonstrated the highest level of farm mechanization.They claimed it was an effective strategy to manage the labor…

The administration of additional painkillers during/after disbudding was also more common on organic farms: all but three organic farms provided this additional care option, whereas in half of the conventional farms no analgesic was administered for disbudding . These differences were probably due to the legal standards and the animal friendly management measures prevalent in…

Resilience attributes that were discussed in most case studies were “Infrastructure for innovation”, and “Production coupled with local and natural capital”. Resilience attributes related to diversity, policies or connection with actors outside the farming system were least discussed. In SE-Poultry and PL-Horticulture the “Functional diversity” and “Response diversity” was emphasized. In DE-Arable&Mixed, RO-Mixed and to…

Nevertheless, one should be cautious with generalising ResAT findings of a single farming system case. We reason that the CAP’s resilience-enhancing or resilience constraining capabilities are very dependent on the farming system’s characteristics, such as its functions, its regional context and the specific challenges that it faces . For instance, De Veenkoloni¨en faces challenges that are…

Soil background and vegetation cover were other factors studied in this research, which also often have a high impact on the quality of image analysis , mainly in traditional pixel-based classifications. On the one hand, the OBIA4tillage procedure was insensitive to soil hue, reporting similar good results for both clear and dark soils . On…