We consider the effect of perceived economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We hypothesize that an increase in the economic pressures a farmer faces could result in that farmer being more tolerant of unethical conduct than farmers not experiencing economic pressures. To test this hypothesis, we use data from a survey of 3,000 Missouri farmers with farm sales in excess of $10,000 in 2005 in which farmers were asked how acceptable they considered various unethical or questionable farming practices. The survey also contained questions designed to measure perceived economic pressures. We find evidence that economic pressures result in a greater willingness of farmers to tolerate unethical conduct, particularly in the case of act...
United States (U.S.) farmers are working to increase agricultural yield production to meet commodity...
Environmental Studies major at the University of KansasThe focus of my project this summer was on ex...
Based on the substitutability of economic activities, by comparing the profit margin of farmers' pla...
Department of Agricultural Economics Working Paper No. AEWP 2007-07We consider the effect of perceiv...
We consider the effect of economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We present a model...
The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occur...
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Hum...
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the annual meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and H...
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers feel are the most important et...
This draft is dated May 2, 2002.This paper distinguishes between two types of ethical problems. A Ty...
A plethora of ethical issues in livestock agriculture has emerged to public attention in recent deca...
Food production, water management, land use, and animal and public health are all topics of extensiv...
In this paper we consider the question of whether middle-scale farmers, which we define as producers...
Ethics is about what one ought to do. Ethical analysis involves analysis of what one does and attemp...
An experimental survey was undertaken to explore the links between the characteristics of a moral is...
United States (U.S.) farmers are working to increase agricultural yield production to meet commodity...
Environmental Studies major at the University of KansasThe focus of my project this summer was on ex...
Based on the substitutability of economic activities, by comparing the profit margin of farmers' pla...
Department of Agricultural Economics Working Paper No. AEWP 2007-07We consider the effect of perceiv...
We consider the effect of economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We present a model...
The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occur...
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2004 meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Hum...
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the annual meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and H...
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers feel are the most important et...
This draft is dated May 2, 2002.This paper distinguishes between two types of ethical problems. A Ty...
A plethora of ethical issues in livestock agriculture has emerged to public attention in recent deca...
Food production, water management, land use, and animal and public health are all topics of extensiv...
In this paper we consider the question of whether middle-scale farmers, which we define as producers...
Ethics is about what one ought to do. Ethical analysis involves analysis of what one does and attemp...
An experimental survey was undertaken to explore the links between the characteristics of a moral is...
United States (U.S.) farmers are working to increase agricultural yield production to meet commodity...
Environmental Studies major at the University of KansasThe focus of my project this summer was on ex...
Based on the substitutability of economic activities, by comparing the profit margin of farmers' pla...