Once reliant on year‐long periods of unvegetated fallow, dryland farmers are reaping environmental and economic benefits by replacing fallow with a crop, a practice called cropping system intensification. However, in the U.S. High Plains, transitions to intensified cropping systems have been slow relative to other regions, and cropping systems have stratified into varying degrees of intensity. Prior attempts to explain the wave of cropping system intensification have largely focused on simple economic rationales, and thus we lack a critical understanding of the social dynamics underlying the revolution in semi‐arid cropping systems. We examined the motivations, perceptions, and social interactions of dryland farmers that practice different levels of cropping system intensity in Colorado and Nebraska. Building on Carolan's application of Bourdieusian social fields to agriculture, we identify overlapping fields expressed among interviewees. While these fields are reflected in farms' different degrees of intensification, they can be used to help identify and locate farmers associated with the emerging soil health (or regenerative agriculture) movement. The paper concludes by identifying strategies for change, some which would serve to reshape social fields, and others which leverage existing social positions and relationships to enable farmers to overcome the barriers constraining cropping system intensification.

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旱地作物革命？将新兴的土壤健康范例与高原小麦种植者不断变化的社会领域联系起来

旱地农民一旦依靠长达一年的无植被休耕期，便通过用农作物代替休耕来获得环境和经济利益，这种作法被称为种植系统集约化。但是，在美国高平原地区，向集约化耕种系统的过渡相对于其他地区而言很慢，并且耕种系统已分层为不同程度的强度。先前解释耕作制度集约化浪潮的尝试主要集中在简单的经济原理上，因此我们对半干旱耕作制度革命背后的社会动力缺乏批判性的理解。我们研究了在科罗拉多州和内布拉斯加州实行不同水平耕作制度强度的旱地农民的动机，看法和社会互动。在卡罗兰上建 布尔迪厄斯社会领域在农业中的应用，我们确定了受访者之间表达的重叠领域。尽管这些领域反映在农场集约化程度不同，但它们可用于帮助识别和定位与新兴土壤健康（或再生农业）运动相关的农民。本文最后通过确定变革策略来解决，其中一些策略将用于重塑社会领域，而另一些策略则利用现有的社会地位和关系，使农民能够克服限制耕种制度集约化的障碍。它们可用于帮助识别和定位与新兴土壤健康（或再生农业）运动相关的农民。本文最后通过确定变革策略来解决，其中一些策略将用于重塑社会领域，而另一些策略则利用现有的社会地位和关系，使农民能够克服限制耕种制度集约化的障碍。它们可用于帮助识别和定位与新兴土壤健康（或再生农业）运动相关的农民。本文最后通过确定变革策略来解决，其中一些策略将用于重塑社会领域，而另一些策略则利用现有的社会地位和关系，使农民能够克服限制耕种制度集约化的障碍。