Do the new organic producers differ from the 'old guard'? Empirical results from Norwegian dairy farming

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 174-182

  Flaten, Ola ^a   Lien, Gudbrand ^a   Ebbesvik, Martha ^b   Koesling, Matthias ^b   Valle, Paul S ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b The Norwegian Center for Ecological Agriculture   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Animal health; Attitudes; Conventionalization; Farming goals; Feeding; Milk production; Motives for conversion; Organic farming; Year of conversion

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; MILK PRODUCTION; ORGANIC FARMING; SOIL FERTILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845649690     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/RAF2005140     Document Type: Review

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