3. Results and discussion3.1. Descr

3. Results and discussion
3.1. Descriptive results
The average age of the respondents in the study is 51 yearsand the average farm size is 143 ha. The average distance of thesurveyed farms from their nearest recipient water bodies is 14 kmwith approximately 62% of the farms being within this distance. Themajority of the farmers (40%) are in the 45–54 age category indicat-ing a slight difference with the general population where only 33%are in this age category (European Commission, 2014). The averagefarm size of the sample differs significantly from the average in thegeneral population which is 65 ha. However, the larger farms arecritical in the formulation of future policies given the substantialincrease in the number of large farms in recent decades (StatisticsDenmark, 2014), an aspect that reduces any possible bias.The sample statistics on the different farm types are in linewith those of the population with over 90% of the respondentsbeing involved in crop production. Organic and full-time farm-ers accounts for 9% and 72% of the respondents respectively. Withregards to soil types, approximately 50% of the respondents indicatethat they have some sandy soils (jb1–jb2) on their farms while 70%,35% and 25% indicate the presence of clayey-sand (jb3–jb4), sandy-clay (jb5–jb6) and heavy-clay (>jb6) soils respectively.1Mediumfarm slopes (6–12◦) are reported by 56% of the respondents.A summary on the adoption of nutrient reducing technologiesindicates that 65% of the respondents are currently employingone or more technologies. Natural wetlands and permanent grasscultivation are the most frequently adopted voluntary pollutionreduction technologies at 26% and 25% respectively. Precision farming and constructed wetlands technologies are adopted by 21%and 4% of the respondents respectively.