ABSTRACT:
Data were collected from a sample of 1,305 farm owner/operators in the Scioto River watershed of Ohio to examine the use of conventional and conservation farming practices. The theoretical perspective used to guide the study was developed from selected components of diffusion and the farm structure models. The findings revealed that the theoretical perspective bad limited utility for predicting use of farming practices employed at the farm level. The magnitude of explained variance in most of the statistical models suggests that alternative theoretical explanations must be explored in future research focused on adoption of farming practices.
Footnotes
Ted L. Napier is a professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and Silvana M. Camboni is associate director of the University Research Foundation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210. Support for this study was provided by the Johnson Wm Corporation, the USDA ARS, and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center of The Ohio State University. The theoretical positions and conclusions advanced in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent positions of the funding sponsors.
- Copyright 1993 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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