Acceptance and Diffusion of Hybrid Corn Seed in Two Iowa CommunitiesAgricultural Experiment Station, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1950 - Agricultural innovations - 46 pages |
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Summary | 663 |
The diffusion process | 677 |
Economic status factors | 690 |
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acre active adopted hybrid seed adopting the seed adoption of hybrid agricultural AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION analysis associated with early attendance behavior brid seed Bryce Ryan bulletins read bushel characteristics Chi square classical economic commercial recreational communities studied corn acreage curve Data unascertainable differences diffusion agencies Diffusion of Hybrid diffusion process DISTRIBUTION AND MEANS drouth earliest adopters earliness of adoption early adoption evidence factors farm enterprise farm journals farm operators FOUR ACCEPTANCE GROUPS hybrid corn seed importance influence intermediate groups Iowa Agr Iowa State College later acceptors latest adopters leadership mean number measure membership Neal Gross NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS number of trips open-pollinated operators first learned OPERATORS IN FOUR percent level PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE OF OPERATORS Period Number planted problem rapidity of adoption relationship resistant Rural Sociology salesmen score secularization significant at P=0.05 social participation square TABLE Talcott Parsons Tenure status tion trait UNRELATED TENANTS