Goals and management styles of New Zealand farmers

Fairweather, John R.; Keating, Norah

doi:10.1016/0308-521x(94)90160-h

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“…Two previous studies of note are Fairweather and Keating (1994), who studied the goals and management styles of 50 New Zealand farmers, and Walter (1997), who examined 'images of success' among 68 Illinois farmers. The Fairweather study identified three types: 'dedicated producers', 'flexible strategists' and 'environmentalists'.…”

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Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK

Davies¹,

Hodge

2007

Ecological Economics

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Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK

Davies¹,

Hodge

2007

Ecological Economics

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“…Studies demonstrate the look of the farm, particularly with respect to whether it looks efficient and tidy, is highly influential to farmer decisions (Carr & Tait, 1991;Mead, 1995;Nassauer, 1989;Wilson, 1992), and that policies and programmes that do not meet farmer aesthetic expectations are less likely to be implemented by farmers (Nassauer, 1989). Fairweather and Keating (1994) demonstrate the importance New Zealand farmers attribute to appearing to be hardworking, successful and/or environmentally responsible among their peers and to the public, and that farm appearance is a key way they communicate these traits. Certain elements and characteristics in landscapes serve as visual cues to the traits landowners want to communicate (Gobster, Nassauer, Daniel, & Fry, 2007;Nassauer, 1992).…”

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Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam

Fukuda

Møller

et al. 2017

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours of New Zealand dairy farmers to evaluate voluntary agri-environmental programmes for restoring woody vegetation. Findings indicate the area is increasing, while the composition and configuration of networks are changing and redistributing. Farms with little are losing more, and those with more are gaining. Farmers are planting new areas to increase their public ecosystem services, but may not provide these services through planting and management. Barriers include insufficient private woody vegetation ecosystem services, and low rates of growth of native plants. Government incentive programmes are ineffective in overcoming barriers. Farmers may be motivated by stronger evidence of valued ecosystem services, information about their benefits and drawbacks and how to support services through planting and management. However, a targeted environmental stewardship scheme is required to overcome barriers to planting, with government and the dairy industry working together to develop and maintain a landscape-scaled woody vegetation network on private and public land. Such networks would build sustainability and resilience into dairy farming, leading to an equitably sharing of benefits and costs of their public ecosystem services. KEYWORDS

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“…Simons (2013) argued a Q sort can be conducted with a small number of participants because Q methodology is the classification of individual perspectives and points of view. The P set uses a form board, a forced-distribution board, to sort the Q set from most like to least like their perspectives (Stephen, 1985;Tuler, Webler, & Finson, 2005), which is often followed by a discussion related to how each member sorted the set (Fairweather & Keating, 1994;Previte, Pini, & Haslam-McKenzie, 2007). The P set uses the condition of instruction, the central question, as a guide for the Q sorting process (Previte et al, 2007).…”

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Journal of Applied Communications 100(3) Full Issue

Ellis¹

2016

Journal of Applied Communications

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Goals and management styles of New Zealand farmers

Cited by 120 publications

References 9 publications

Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK

Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

Journal of Applied Communications 100(3) Full Issue

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