Why don't producers adopt best management practices? An analysis of the beef cattle industry

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-102

  Gillespie, Jeffrey ^a   Kim, Seon Ae ^a   Paudel, Krishna ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practices; Conservation programs; Multinomial logit analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; CATTLE; CONSERVATION; EDUCATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; TRAINING;

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EID: 33846635585     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00179.x     Document Type: Review

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