4 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Documents (DOAJ)., In interviews, "...a group of 'conservation-minded' Illinois farmers revealed that while they are not necessarily familiar with the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy (NLRS), they are concerned with nutrient loss and are taking steps to address those concerns." However, authors observed that added efforts may be required to encourage adoption of the best management practices recommended by the strategy. The study also identified information sources farmers trust in making such decisions.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23825
Notes:
Pages 214-237 in B.C.English, J.A. Maetzold and B.R. Holding (eds.), Future agricultural technology and resource conservation. Iowa State University Press, Ames.
USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
Notes:
Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
Page 55 in Extension Circular 532, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1959, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for a master of science degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1959. 42 pages.
An analysis of secondary data from the National Panel Survey in Tanzania revealed physical, socioeconomic, and institutional factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation technologies among small-scale maize farmers. Findings revealed, for example, only 13.9 percent of those had adopted soil conservation technology. This was cited as small, compared with other countries.
Van Es, J.C. (author / Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois) and Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03425
Notes:
Phase II, In: English, Burton C.; Maetzold, James A.; Holding, Brian R.; and Heady, Earl O., eds. Future agricultural technology and resource conservation : proceedings of the RCA Symposium; 1982 December 5-9; Washington, D.C. Ames, IA : The Iowa State University Press, 1984. p. 238-253
