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2. Adoption and perception of farm management information systems by future Swiss farm managers – An online study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ammamm, Jeanine (author), Walter, Achim (author), and Benni, Nadja (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-10
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12567
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 70
- Notes:
- 8 pages, The use of digital technologies in agriculture offers various benefits, such as site-specific application, better monitoring, and physical relief. The handling of these technologies requires a specific skill set. Therefore, the question arises of when and how farm managers learn about digital technologies. Aiming to analyse the current situation, the present research investigated the role that digital technologies play in vocational training for future farm managers. Taking the example of farm management information systems (FMIS), the present study also analysed various predictors of adoption, including the effect of training. To investigate these research questions, an online survey among teachers and students of the farm management vocational programme across Switzerland was conducted in the spring of 2021. In total, 150 individuals participated, 41 of whom were teachers. Participants answered questions about the learning content in the farm management programme and their perception of digital technologies in general. Students further reported whether they already had a farm they would be managing in the future and how they perceived FMIS. The results indicate that both teachers and students are convinced that digital technologies play an important role in agriculture and will gain more importance in the future. A substantial part of 43% of the students who participated indicated that they had learned neither about digital technologies during their basic agricultural training nor the subsequent farm management programme. In terms of FMIS, 51% of the student sample indicated that they had never heard about FMIS during their agricultural training. While having learned about FMIS was not a significant predictor for adoption, gender, perceived ease of use, and intention to use more digital technologies in the future significantly predicted the adoption of FMIS. The paper concludes that, to support the adoption of digital technologies and FMIS specifically, training for future farm managers should focus on how to operate an FMIS to increase the perceived ease of use of this technology.
3. Adoption as adaptation: Household decision making and changing rural livelihoods in Lombok, Indonesia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Williams, Liana J. (author), van Wensveen, Monica (author), Grunbuhel, Clemens (author), and Pupsadi, Ketut (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12575
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 89
- Notes:
- 9 pages, In agricultural research for development adoption of new technology tends to be cast in categories: adoption, partial adoption, dis-adoption or non-adoption. While these may serve for pragmatic classification and measures for project success or impact they fail to properly acknowledge the ongoing and independent efforts of farmers (and others) in experimentation and integration of knowledge across a range of sources. This paper explores responses to practices for cattle management introduced during a research project, at project close, and five years after the project has finished. We consider the perceptions and application of new knowledge by farmers, extension staff, and policy makers. By taking a longer-term view, we demonstrate how farming households adapt and integrate knowledge from different sources into their daily practice, influenced by local institutions and changing cultural expectations, as well as external researchers. We also consider the influence of changing government priorities and incentives in steering farm-management decisions. Results suggest that a focus on measures to build capacity and empower farmers with information to adapt and respond to change, regardless of project activities, is a much more important goal and indicator of impact than measuring adoption.
4. Agricultural and home economics experiment station project 2725 in cooperation with Iowa State University cooperative extension service
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (author)
- Format:
- Survey
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09734
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, Iowa State University, 11 pages.
5. Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health and behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cooke, Andrew (author), Mullan, Siobhan (author), Morten, Charlie (author), Hockenhull, Joanna (author), Le-Grice, Phil (author), Le Cocq, Kate (author), Lee, Michael R. F. (author), Cardenas, Laura M. (author), and Rivero, M. Jordana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-06-29
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12951
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- V.161, Iss.3
- Notes:
- 14 pages, Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of an animal’s life and the interactions between animals. Consequently, welfare must be measured across a variety of factors that consider aspects such as health, behaviour and mental state. Decisions regarding housing and grazing are central to farm management. In this study, two beef cattle systems and their herds were compared from weaning to slaughter across numerous indicators. One herd (‘HH’) were continuously housed, the other (‘HG’) were housed only during winter. Inspections of animals were conducted to assess body condition, cleanliness, diarrhoea, hairlessness, nasal discharge and ocular discharge. Hair and nasal mucus samples were taken for quantification of cortisol and serotonin. Qualitative behaviour assessments (QBA) were also conducted and performance monitored. Physical health indicators were similar between herds with the exception of nasal discharge which was more prevalent in HH (P < 0.001). During winter, QBA yielded differences between herds over PC1 (arousal) (P = 0.032), but not PC2 (mood) (P = 0.139). Through summer, there was a strong difference across both PC1 (P < 0.001) and PC2 (P = 0.002), with HG exhibiting more positive behaviour. A difference was found in hair cortisol levels, with the greatest concentrations observed in HG (P = 0.011), however such a pattern was not seen for nasal mucus cortisol or for serotonin. Overall, providing summer grazing (HG) appeared to afford welfare benefits to the cattle as shown with more positive QBA assessments, but also slightly better health indicators, notwithstanding the higher levels of cortisol in that group.
6. Cultivate California educates residents about farms' need for water
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karst, Tom (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-11
- Published:
- USA: The Packer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13111
- Notes:
- 3 pages
7. Engaging farmers and the agriculture industry through the testing agricultural performance solutions program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Burr, Charles A. (author), Rudnick, Daran R. (author), Stockton, Matt C. (author), Tigner, Robert (author), and Rhoades, Krystle (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12289
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 58, Num. 5
- Notes:
- 9 pages, The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Testing Agricultural Performance Solutions (TAPS) program involves use of farm management competitions to increase engagement across producers, industry, and universities. Participants make several management decisions throughout the growing season in a controlled field trial held at the university research station. Results are analyzed, and awards are presented for most profitable farm, most efficient farm, and farm with the greatest grain yield. The TAPS program involves several techniques for facilitating participatory assistance, including two-way communication and transformational learning. It has resulted in participants' questioning their past management decisions and realizing that they need to improve their marketing skills to improve profitability.
8. Farmer knowledge as formal knowledge: a case study of farmer-led research in Ontario, Canada
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nelson, Erin (author), Hargreaves, Sarah (author), and Muldoon, Dillon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-08-22
- Published:
- USA: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12954
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V.12, N.4
- Notes:
- 24 pages, Farmer-led research (FLR) is a process of inquiry wherein farmers use scientific methods to address their own on-farm curiosities and challenges in ways that are compatible with the scale and management style of their operations. With its flexible, adaptable, participatory, grassroots-oriented nature, FLR has typically been employed by farmers interested in ecological farming techniques and technologies, and evidence shows that it contributes to the adoption and improvement of ecological management practices across a range of contexts. Engagement in FLR initiatives has also been linked to positive social outcomes, including community-building, farmer empowerment, and enhanced capacity for leadership and collective action. In this paper, we present a case study of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s (EFAO) Farmer-Led Research Program (FLRP), which is currently one of relatively few FLR initiatives in North America. We draw on data from a participatory, mixed-methods research project. Our results highlight how the FLRP is enabling farmers to feel more knowledgeable, confident, motivated, and inspired to adopt and/or improve ecological practices on their farms, in part by supporting them in building robust social networks that align with their farming values and priorities.
9. Farmer;s motivation to adopt sustainable agricultural practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Menozzi, Davide (author), Fioravanzi, Martina (author), and Donati, Michele (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08768
- Journal Title:
- Bio-based and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(2) : 125-147
10. Farmers finding benefits to cover crop adoption: soil health partnership
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Spiegel, Bill (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-10
- Published:
- USA: Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11763
- Journal Title:
- Successful Farming
- Notes:
- Online from publisher. 3 pages., In 2019 cover crop report, SHP dives into cover crop adoption practices. Summary of findings from a survey among 80 farmers in 11 states in the Soil Health Partnership network.
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