Today, tomorrow, never : a sociological study of factors determining the adoption of agricultural innovations by woolgrowers in the Yass River Valley, New South Wales

Abstract

During the first one hundred years of colonization Australian agriculture generally developed as family farm units. To day, many agricultural enterprises, such as pigs and poultry, have become agribusinesses. 1 Others, such as sheep, dairying and cereals, still remain as largely family operations. This thesis concentrates solely on the Australian wool industry - an industry compose of 100,000 individual decisionmakers, scattered over half of this continent.