Daher wurde eine schriftliche Befragung durchgeführt, um die Umstellungshemmnisse in dieser Betriebsform zu erkunden. ###>Therefore a written survey was carried out in order to investigate the factors inhibiting the conversion to organic farming of cash crop farms. 1.500 questionnaires were sent to randomly selected cash crop farms praticipating in the Austrian Environmental Programme, 34 percent of the questionnaires came back.