Essays on Cultivator

The “Rules of the Plantation” document highlights the overseer’s code of conduct during American slavery. Its 23 provisions or rules raise managerial and ethical issues in the current managerial, capitalist work environment. One provision that is especially interesting as related to the current managerial practices is number 10, which is also critical for the nowadays work ethics. Rule number 10 of the “Rules of Plantation” documents indicates that “The negroes must be made to obey, and to work [], with very little whipping” (Southern Cultivator 103). Therefore, the whipping, a physical punishment, was accepted as a work practice. The ...

Prediction of Maize (Zea Mays L.) Population with Normalized-Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) and Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Prediction of Maize (Zea Mays L.) Population with Normalized-Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) and Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Introduction

With the escalation in cost production and environmental concerns, researchers have in the recent past focused in investigating resourceful means of increasing yields while reducing fertilizer use. Arnall & Godsey assert that the seeding rate and hybrids that promise the highest crop populations is continuously sort by corn cost cultivators worldwide (2013). Nielsen et al. notes that the crop populations are tied to the end yields. Corn populations have greatly increased in Indiana over the past thirty years to make about 340 plants ...