ABSTRACT:
A conservation tillage survey, conducted by farmers in Sac County, Iowa, showed that weed and insect control, planting problems, cost of changing to conservation tillage, uniformity of emergence, and pesticide and fertilizer application problems were greater concerns than yields and profits. Farmers using less intensive tillage practices generally were more positive toward conservation tillage. Many more farmers indicated that they used conservation tillage than an examination of tillage methods revealed. This perhaps reflects different definitions of conservation tillage.
Footnotes
Betty L. Wells is an assistant professor of sociology and extension sociologist, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011; Timothy O. Borich is a community resource development specialist, and Jack D. Frus is a soil, water and waste management specialist, Sioux City Extension Area, Sioux City, Iowa 51103. The authors acknowledge the help of Sac County Extension Director Floyd Schnirring in implementing the volunteer-farmer survey.
- Copyright 1983 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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