4.1. Farm scale correlations
The findings provide support for the hypothesis that few differences
in food safety knowledge and awareness exist among
growers across farm scales, and demonstrate that farmers across all
scales had some produce safety misperceptions. Of the 116 variables
in our study, just ten percent of them showed evidence of a
scale relationship. There were correlations between Farm Scale and
the following:
three of thirty-one Pre-Harvest Contamination variables
three of the thirty-one Post-Harvest Contamination variables
three of twenty-eight Prevention Practices variables had significant
correlations with farm scale
three of the twenty-six variables in the Perceived Economic
Feasibility of Prevention Practices category