Korsching, Peter F. (author), Nowak, Peter J. (author), and Nowak: Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Korsching: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
USA: Ankeny, IA : Soil Conservation Society of America.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05250
Babu, I. Reddi (author), Satyanarayana, Ch. (author), and Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India; Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05315
Okuneye, P.A. (author / Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria) and Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05311
AGRICOLA AGE 85925870, Extract: The thesis of this paper is that adaptive ability is unimportant when the processes generating the variables, which farmers take as exogenous, are stationary and unaltered. However, when these processes undergo structural change, adaptive ability is expected to affect the quality of production, marketing, and investment decisions. Farmers who have superior adaptive skills are expected on average to make better decisions. Furthermore, given the highly competitive nature of U.S. agriculture, successfully adapting to structural change is selective. Farmers possessing poor adaptive skill can be expected to comprise a relatively large share of the persons forced by economic circumstances to seek alternative employment or retirement, provided governmental intervention does not neutralize this selection process.
