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Farmer Willingness to Adopt Mitigation Measures for Water Quality Improvements

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Diffuse pollution from agriculture continues to be a significant threat to waterbodies. This study investigates the role of diverse farming objectives on a farmers’ openness to adopt a suite of mitigative measures that could have a positive effect on water quality. Based on a farmer survey, factor analysis was used to reduce a long list of potential farming objectives to three: Long Term Economic objectives (LTE), Short Term Economic objectives (STE) and Environmental objectives (ENV). The results indicate that farming objectives are a highly significant predictor of openness to adopt mitigation measures that have the potential to improve water quality. Our findings suggest that farmers with LTE and ENV objectives are more open to adopting many of the same mitigation measures while farmers with STE objectives are less open.

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  • McCormack, Michele, 2023. "Farmer Willingness to Adopt Mitigation Measures for Water Quality Improvements," 97th Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2023, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 334532, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aesc23:334532
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334532
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