Barriers to adopting sustainable floriculture certification

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 778-783

  Hall, Tanya J ^a   Lopez, Roberto G ^a   Marshall, Maria I ^a   Dennis, Jennifer H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Grower perceptions; Logistic regression; Risk; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952559106     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.5.778     Document Type: Article

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