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2. Differences among improved farm practices as related to rates of adoption
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fliegel, F.C. (author) and Kivlin, J.E. (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1962
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05241
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, University Park, PA: Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Pennsylvania State University, January 1962. (Bulletin 691). 18 p., Presents the results of a study of the extent to which the rate of adoption of new managerial and technological practices is related to their cost, complexity, and other attributes. Adoption rates for 43 farm practices were determined from the adoption histories of 229 commercial dairy farmers. Relationships between attribute ratings established during the study and known rates of adoption were determined. Farm practices which rated low in complexity and high in compatibility and saving of time were adopted more rapidly than others. Those rated high in mechanical attraction and saving of physical discomfort also tended to be adopted rapidly but the correlations were not statistically significant. The data show that high initial cost, high continuing costs, and a slow rate of cost recovery are not necessarily deterrents to rapid adoption. The other attributes, association with dairying and divisibility for trial, were not associated with rate of adoption.
3. Prediction of rate of adoption from characterists of farm innovations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tucker, C.F. (author)
- Format:
- Thesis summary
- Publication Date:
- 1962-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08425
- Journal Title:
- Review of Extension Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 1961
- Notes:
- Page 59 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for the master of science, Ohio State University, Columbus. 1961. 70 pages.