Focus programs designed to facilitate adoption of precision farming techniques on farmers who:
Work with consultants:
Emphasize one-on-one contact. Couple with small group and demonstration events – Provide on-farm visits, small group demonstrations, and workshops emphasizing local, direct farmer contact. Continue reading →
Look to these conditions for opportunities to provide education that is more likely to be effective:
Use farmer-preferred sources of information and strategies for outreach about making decisions. Continue reading →
Use the internet for training new farmers in preference to other distance education techniques Continue reading →
Sources of information that most influenced farmer views about problems associated with groundwater and agricultural chemical use were: farm magazines and newspapers; general newspapers and news on radio and television; educational/research agency reports; personal observation Continue reading →
When providing information related to sustainable farming, use conventional sources of information to convey new ideas rather than start a new newsletter or organization or other new source of information. Continue reading →
Rely on farmer personal experience as more influential than education or research reports Continue reading →
Provide information through field days, pamphlets, farm journals, media and books. These can contribute to:
