Determinants of farmers’ uptake of animal health and welfare technologies under the common agricultural policy

Luiza Toma, Andrew Peter Barnes, Lee-Ann Sutherland, Keith Mathews and Alistair Stott

No 183049, 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: This study analyses the impact of a priori identified determinants of adoption of innovative animal health and welfare technologies by Scottish livestock farmers. The analysis uses a dataset of 1,764 observations for livestock farmers collected through a large scale survey of Scottish agricultural holdings, and structural equation modelling to test influences on technology adoption intentions and behaviour. Having made changes to business; perceived effects of technology and information on business; being recipient of a single farm payment; age; economic characteristics; access to/perceived usefulness of information; and perceived difficulty to change have significant influence on both technology adoption behaviour and intentions.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6
Date: 2014-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.183049

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