Bohlen, J.M. (author), Coleman, A.L. (author), Dimit, R.M. (author), Lionberger, H. F. (author), and Wilkening, E.A. (author)
Format:
Bibliography
Publication Date:
1956
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05213
Notes:
AGRICOLA CAT 92263967; Bibliographical supplement to "How farm people accept new ideas." Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Ames, Iowa : Agricultural Experiment Station, Iowa State College, 1956. 8 p. (North central regional publication ; no. 1, Sup.; Iowa State College special report no. 15, sup.), References to 87 studies related to the process by which new practices diffuse.
Page 84 in Extension Circular 532, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1959, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Citation of a revised edition involving 135 titles supplementing those in "How farm people accept new ideas," North Central Regional Publication No. 1. 2nd edition. Iowa State College, Ames. 1959. 12 pages.
Padel, Susanne (author) and Lampkin, Nicolas H. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12019
Notes:
Pages 295-313 in Lampkin, N.H. and S. Padel, The economics of organic farming: an international perspective. CAB International, Oxon, UK. 1994. 468 pp.
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.
