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2. Cultural differences in the acceptance of recommended practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pedersen, Harald A. (author / Mississippi State College) and Mississippi State College
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1951
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04928
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 (1) : 37-49
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, This is a comparative analysis of the adjustment of a Danish and a Polish ethnic group to the American culture in a dairy farming area in central Wisconsin. The adjustment is evaluated in terms of recommended farm practices. These practices are grouped under three major categories: (1) livestock practices, (2) cropping practices, and (3) mechanization. For every trait measured the Danish farm group exceeds the Polish group in the proportion who have adopted the selected recommended practices. The performance suggests that the Danish and Polish ethnic groups are different universes from the standpoint of behavior and reaction to recommended dairy farming practices. The Danish and the Polish groups constitute distinct culture complexes, or subcultures, within the North central dairy region. the evidence of the study indicated that the cultural adjustments of the Danish group facilitate the introduction of new ides, whereas the adjustments of the Polish group tend to perpetuate status quo. (author)
3. Farm family resources and the adoption of no-plow tillage in southwestern Wisconsin
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Belknap, John (author) and Saupe, William E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07299
- Journal Title:
- North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 : 13-23
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference