Determinants of Farmers\u27 Satisfactions With Farming and With Life: A Replication and Extension

The purpose of this study is to broaden the understanding of the determinants of farmers\u27 satisfactions with life as a whole and with farming per se by replicating and extending Molnar\u27s 1985 study of the overall subjective well-being of Alabama farmers. Data from a 1982 study of Kentucky farmers are used to accomplish this objective. Molnar\u27s conclusions regarding the individual and structural determinants of farmers\u27 global well-being are generally confirmed. In addition, the farmer\u27s global satisfaction with life is shown to be related to his satisfaction with farming but the structural determinants of global and farm satisfaction differ. Net farm income, but not total family income or off-farm work time, determine farm satisfaction while the converse is true for global satisfaction with life. Education is shown to specify farmers who have relatively large farms but low net farm incomes and dissatisfaction with farming and with life. Perceived rewards of farming are important determinants of both satisfaction domains. It is argued that farmers\u27 opportunities to construct their workplaces explains the irrelevance of farm size to subjective well-being

Social structure and diffusion of farm information : based on study of a farm community in Northeast Missouri

Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107)

Proceedings of the Workshop Social Science Research and the CRSPs

Contents Executive Summary: A New Agenda for CRSP Social Science Research - C. Milton Coughenour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Session 1 Developing a Strategic Research Agenda David G. Cummins, Chair Framing a Strategic Research Agenda.-John Yohe ................ 3 Social Sciences and Collaborative Research: Toward an Agenda for the Social Sciences in Agriculture -Jere Lee Gilles ............... 7 Session 2 Technology Development and Sustaining Household Food Security Kathleen DeWalt, Chair Technology Development and Household Food Security - John M Staatz and Richard H. Bemsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Differences among Women Fanners: Implications for African Agricultural Research Programs - Anne E. Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Adopters of new farm ideas : characteristics and communications behavior (1961)

"IP-15M-10:61-SQ.""Agricultural Extension Services of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.""North central regional extension publication number 13.""Farm Foundation and Federal Extension Service Cooperating.""Subcommittee for the study of diffusion of farm practices.

Diffusion research needs.

Cover title."Agricultural Experiment Stations of Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Farm Foundation and Cooperative State Research Service, USDA."Some general problems in diffusion from the perspective of theory of social action / C. Milton Coughenour -- Research needed on adoptive models / Joe M. Bohlen -- Needed research on the structures of interpersonal communications and influence / Herbert F. Lionberger -- A communications research approach to the diffusion of innovations / Everett M. Rogers.Includes bibliographical references

The church in rural Missouri, Part 7. What rural people think of church

"February, 1961.

Social Science in INTSORMIL\u27s Attack on Hunger in Sudan

In the International Sorghum/Millet CRSP\u27s publication titled Fighting Hunger With Research . . . A Team Effort (1985:8), two purposes are outlined for INTSORMIL. Thc primary one is to organize and mobilize financial and human resources necessary for mounting . . . a collaborative effort [to provide] the knowledge base Ito alleviate] the principal constraints to improved production, marketing, and utilization of sorghum and pearl millet. The second is to improve the capabilities of host country institutions to generate, adapt, and apply improved knowledge to social conditions. This chapter discusses the role of social science in fulfilling these objectives on INTSORMIL\u27s Sudan project. The discussion is organized in three sections: (1) tile context and record of INTSORMIL\u27s Sudan work; (2) social science research goals and accomplishments; and (3) social science impacts on INTSORMIL\u27s achievements

Proceedings of the Workshop Social Science Research and the CRSPs

Contents Executive Summary: A New Agenda for CRSP Social Science Research - C. Milton Coughenour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Session 1 Developing a Strategic Research Agenda David G. Cummins, Chair Framing a Strategic Research Agenda.-John Yohe ................ 3 Social Sciences and Collaborative Research: Toward an Agenda for the Social Sciences in Agriculture -Jere Lee Gilles ............... 7 Session 2 Technology Development and Sustaining Household Food Security Kathleen DeWalt, Chair Technology Development and Household Food Security - John M Staatz and Richard H. Bemsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Differences among Women Fanners: Implications for African Agricultural Research Programs - Anne E. Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Soil as Social‐Ecological Feedback: Examining the “Ethic” of Soil Stewardship among Corn Belt Farmers

In this article we examine in-depth interviews with farmers (n = 159) from nine Corn Belt states. Using a grounded theory approach, we identified a “soil stewardship ethic,” which exemplifies how farmers are talking about building the long-term sustainability of their farm operation in light of more variable and extreme weather events. Findings suggest that farmers' shifting relationship with their soil resources may act as a kind of social-ecological feedback that enables farmers to implement adaptive strategies (e.g., no-till farming, cover crops) that build resilience in the face of increasingly variable and extreme weather, in contrast to emphasizing short-term adjustments to production that may lead to greater vulnerability over time. The development of a soil stewardship ethic may help farmers to resolve the problem of an apparent trade-off between short-term productivist goals and long-term conservation goals and in doing so may point toward an emergent aspect of a conservationist identity. Focusing on the message of managing soil health to mitigate weather-related risks and preserving soil resources for future generations may provide a pragmatic solution for helping farmers to reorient farm production practices, which would have soil building and soil saving at their center.This article is published as Roesch‐McNally, Gabrielle, J. Gordon Arbuckle, and John Charles Tyndall. "Soil as Social‐Ecological Feedback: Examining the “Ethic” of Soil Stewardship among Corn Belt Farmers." Rural Sociology (2017). doi: 10.1111/ruso.12167. Posted with permission.</p