ABSTRACT:
A survey conducted among a statewide random sample of Iowa farm operators explored the extent to which farmers rely upon a set of practices to reduce commercial fertilizer and pesticide use. The analysis examines the relationship between farmers' use of these practices with their opinions about low-input farming and their level of concerns about the health and safety of modern agricultural practices. These dimensions are explored by including selected sociodemographic characteristics of the operators in the analysis. Implications for the adoption and diffusion of low-input farming are discussed.
Footnotes
Paul Lasley is an associate professor, Department of Sociology; Michael Duffy is an associate professor. Department of Economics; and Kevin Kettner and Craig Chase are graduate research assistants, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011. Journal Paper No. J-13741 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa; project No. 2550.
- Copyright 1990 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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