Why do farmers adopt conservation tillage? An experimental investigation of framing effects

AC Andrews, RA Clawson, BM Gramig… - Journal of soil and …, 2013 - jswconline.org
In this paper, framing effects are investigated in a new context: farmer decision making about
conservation tillage practices. Primary hypotheses include the following:(1) frames (ie …

Duration of usage and farmer reported benefits of conservation tillage

AE Saak, T Wang, Z Xu, D Kolady… - Journal of Soil and …, 2021 - jswconline.org
This empirical paper investigates how duration of conservation tillage (CT) usage affects
farmers' perceptions on production cost, cash crop yields, and economic returns. This paper …

Locus of control and farmer orientation: Effects on conservation adoption

HE McNairn, B Mitchell - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 1992 - Springer
Farmers in a southwestern Ontario watershed were surveyed to determine factors
influencing their attitudes towards adoption of soil conservation practices. The majority of …

Early adoption of conservation agriculture practices: Understanding partial compliance in programs with multiple adoption decisions

PS Ward, AR Bell, K Droppelmann, TG Benton - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder
farmers throughout Southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture …

FARMERS'DECISION PROCESSES AND ADOPTION OF CONSERVATION TILLAGE

JV Westra, KD Olson - 1997 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
In a transect survey of crop residue levels in 1995 and 1996, two Minnesota counties had
very different percentages of cropland with desired residue cover even though the soil types …

Green subsidies in agriculture: Estimating the adoption costs of conservation tillage from observed behavior

L Kurkalova, C Kling, J Zhao - Canadian Journal of Agricultural …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Due to payoff uncertainties combined with risk aversion and/or real options, farmers may
demand a premium in order to adopt conservation tillage practices, over and above the …

Land tenure and adoption of conservation tillage

LK Lee - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 1983 - jswconline.org
ONLY 25 percent of all US cropland is currently owned by fullowner operators—those who
both own and operate their land (12). Moreover, part-ownership and tenancy are increasing …

Program participation and farm-level adoption of conservation Tillage: Estimates from a multinomial logit model

BA Babcock, NM Chaherli, PG Lakshminarayan - 1995 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
The conservation compliance provision of the 1985 Food Security Act requires highly
erodible land to be cropped according to a locally approved conservation plan. There is …

The subsidy for adopting conservation tillage: Estimation from observed behavior

LA Kurkalova, CL Kling, J Zhao - 2001 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Due to payoff uncertainties combined with risk aversion and/or real options, farmers may
demand a premium in order to adopt conservation tillage practices, over and above the …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding why farmers adopt soil conservation tillage: A systematic review

MO Ogieriakhi, RT Woodward - Soil Security, 2022 - Elsevier
As soils across the globe continue to face problems of severe degradation and loss under
current management practices, there is a great need to study soil conservation decisions …