Environmentalists and others wonder why farmers persist in using certain chemicals that cause pollution when there are economical alternatives. Reseach shows that a strictly economic argument is not enough to persuade farmers to change their land management practices.
For years, environmentalists, government workers and others
have been puzzled about why more farmers don’t make use of
environmentally friendly land management practices. Now, researchers
have found some of the reasons farmers persist in farming the way they
do and why they don’t listen to outside experts. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Lester Graham reports: