Who chooses new technology? And how? In this article, we explore the diffusion of agricultural science and technology in Galicia (Spain), and the ways in which farmers adopted innovations in the period of 1880–1940 within the Atlantic Iberian agricultural context of small farms. To answer these questions, we adopt a socio-institutional approach and also an environmental one, changes in breeding techniques and the creation of the Galician Blond cow, as well as the widespread use of threshing machines, which were two closely related innovations in the context of mixed farming agriculture. These two examples illustrate the fusion of science-based and practice-based agriculture, and how technology did not threaten community or family equilibrium; instead, it empowered processes that were already operative in affirming small-scale farming.

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农民如何采用新技术：加利西亚（西北部伊比利亚半岛）农民和技术人员知识之间的联系（1880-1940）

谁选择新技术？如何？在本文中，我们探讨了农业科技在加利西亚（西班牙）的传播，以及 1880 年至 1940 年期间在大西洋伊比利亚小农场农业背景下农民采用创新的方式。为了回答这些问题，我们采用了社会制度方法和环境方法、育种技术的变化和加利西亚金发牛的创造，以及脱粒机的广泛使用，这是上下文中两个密切相关的创新的混合农业。这两个例子说明了以科学为基础的农业与以实践为基础的农业的融合，以及技术如何不会威胁到社区或家庭的平衡；相反，它增强了已经在肯定小规模农业方面运作的进程。