The extent that certain dairy farmer attitudes and behaviors are associated with farm business profitability

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dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, Niall W.
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Richard M.
dc.contributor.authorTranter, Richard B.
dc.contributor.authorJones, P.J.
dc.contributor.sponsorKnowledge Transfer Partnership's programmeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-30T15:58:48Z
dc.date.available2019-07-30T15:58:48Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-27
dc.descriptionpeer-revieweden_US
dc.description.abstractThe way in which farm managers' attitudes, personality, behavior, values, and sociodemographic characteristics influence farm business performance is, at best, only partially understood. The study reported here expands on this understanding by analyzing the attitudes and personal attributes of 80 dairy farmers in Great Britain in relation to the profitability over 3 yr of their farm businesses. Business goals, temperament, purchasing behavior, and having a growth mindset toward the business were found to be associated with profitability. A linear regression model consisting of 5 variables related to the above was presented that predicts 34% of the observed variation in profitability. Each of these variables were questions related to the participants' personal attitudes or beliefs. Other assessed variables, such as specific husbandry behaviors or practices, or management practices and sociodemographic characteristics, did not warrant inclusion in the final model. These results uniquely contribute to understanding how the attitudes, personality, behaviors, and attributes of dairy farmers are associated with, and thus likely to influence, the profitability of their farm businesses.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project reported received support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnership’s programme, overseen by Innovate UK (Swindon), the UK’s innovation agency, which is supported by 16 other public sector funding organizations.
dc.embargo.terms2019-09-27en_US
dc.identifier.citationO'Leary, N.M., Bennett, N.W., Tranter, R.B., Jones, P.J., (2018). The extent that certain dairy farmer attitudes and behaviors are associated with farm business profitability. Journal of Dairy Science, 101(12), 11275–11284. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-14307en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-14307
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11019/1694
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Dairy Science;Vol. 101 (12)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectfarmer attitudeen_US
dc.subjectattributes of farmeren_US
dc.subjectfarmer behavioren_US
dc.subjectdairy farm profitabilityen_US
dc.titleThe extent that certain dairy farmer attitudes and behaviors are associated with farm business profitabilityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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