Limited uptake of financial incentives, designed to confront global trends of an ageing farming population and low levels of land mobility, reveal resistance or at best ambivalence, amongst farmers towards altering existing farm management and ownership structures in later life. To uncover facets governing the mindset, disposition and practices of older farmers towards succession and retirement, this study draws on Bourdieu's notion of habitus. A multi-method triangulation methodology is employed to obtain in-depth understandings of the senior generation's deeply embedded views, and the changes they perceive will occur upon their engagement in the process. Findings reveal that the attitudes and behaviour required to ‘step aside’ and retire from farming not only ‘go against the grain’ of the older farmers’ habitus, appearing to be instinctively ‘wrong’, they also appear incompatible with what is necessary to earn recognition as a ‘good farmer’. The article concludes by recommending that a shift in thinking towards succession and retirement must be confronted at an earlier life stage in order to inculcate a new farming habitus. In doing this, long-term resolutions through generating a regularised, accepted and well-regarded practice of intergenerational farm transfer within the farming community would be promoted.

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与粮食背道而驰：揭示老年农民的习惯以帮助促进农业的世代更新

旨在应对农业人口老龄化和土地流动性低的全球趋势的财政激励措施的有限采用，揭示了农民在晚年改变现有农场管理和所有权结构的阻力或充其量是矛盾的。为了揭示影响老年农民继承和退休的心态、性格和做法的方面，本研究借鉴了布迪厄的惯习概念。采用多方法三角测量方法，深入了解老一辈的根深蒂固的观点，并在参与过程中感知到的变化。调查结果表明，“退出”和退出农业所需的态度和行为不仅“违背”了老农习惯，看似本能地“错误”，他们似乎也与赢得“好农民”认可的必要条件不相容。文章最后建议，为了灌输新的耕作习惯，必须在生命的早期阶段就转变思想，转向继承和退休。在此过程中，将通过在农业社区内产生规范化、接受和广受好评的代际农场转移实践来促进长期解决方案。