Use of conventional and conservation practices among farmers in the Scioto River Basin of Ohio

Data were collected from a sample of 1,305 farm owner/operators in the Scioto River watershed of Ohio to examine the use of conventional and conservation farming practices. The theoretical perspective used to guide the study was developed from selected components of diffusion and the farm structure models. The findings revealed that the theoretical perspective bad limited utility for predicting use of farming practices employed at the farm level. The magnitude of explained variance in most of the statistical models suggests that alternative theoretical explanations must be explored in future research focused on adoption of farming practices.