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2. Extension and training practices: challenges for smallholder cattle farmers' community in Thailand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jiumpanyarach, W. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Pakistan: eSci Journals Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11225
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Agricultural Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(2): 117-127
- Notes:
- 11 pages., ISSN : 2311-8547, via online journal., The objective of this study was to analyze the impacts of an extension program (education and training practice) as perceived by smallholder cattle farmers to develop their smallholder farm practices and reduce the costs of production. The study used data from 22 participant smallholder farmers with backgrounding cattle systems. In-depth interview questionnaires were used and collected before and after providing the extension program in Saraburi province, Thailand. Two leaders of this group were selected for observation and as farm models. Environmental differences were investigated during the rainy, winter and summer seasons. This study detailed the socioeconomics of the smallholders, the characteristics and management of livestock farms. The satisfaction levels of the extension programs were also analyzed. The benefits and costs of this program were examined and developed after the program finished. The study found backgrounding cattle farms was a major livelihood within the community. The community was of low income and living in poverty. The farmers were at high levels of risk in terms of feeding costs and cattle market. The program provided knowledge to be enable the farmers to understand and develop the farm systems. Most of the smallholders agreed on the good-practice farming and group activities. The farm leaders influenced their perceptions. The farmers were encouraged to do activities together: learning cattle market information, good-practice cattle farms, and cattle rations management. The success of the extension program improved the economic community, community relationships, and community attitudes. The extension program applied to a pro-active policy. Collaboration learning activities for smallholders benefit the farmers' community. This program improves economic relationships, attitudes, and builds a sustainable agricultural community.
3. Factors influencing farmers' adoption of best management practices: a review and synthesis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Liu, Tingting (author), Bruins, Randall J.F. (author), and Heberling, Matthew T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09653
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 10, 432
4. Herd dynamics reflect constraint for pig production and farmer attitudes in smallholder systems in Lao PDR
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tiemann, Tassilo T. (author), Phengvilaysouk, Ammaly (author), and Keonouchanh, Soukanh (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Laos
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: D10191
- Journal Title:
- Animal Production Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 58 : 2158-2166
- Notes:
- Via UI online subscription.
5. The extent that certain dairy farmer attitudes and behaviors are associated with farm business profitability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- O'Leary, N.W. (author), Bennett, R.M. (author), Tranter, R.B. (author), and Jones, P.J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Published:
- Great Britain: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10187
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Dairy Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 101(12): 1-18
- Notes:
- pgs. 11275-11284, Via online journal, The way in which farm managers' attitudes, personality, behavior, values, and sociodemographic characteristics influence farm business performance is, at best, only partially understood. The study reported here expands on this understanding by analyzing the attitudes and personal attributes of 80 dairy farmers in Great Britain in relation to the profitability over 3 yr of their farm businesses. Business goals, temperament, purchasing behavior, and having a growth mindset toward the business were found to be associated with profitability. A linear regression model consisting of 5 variables related to the above was presented that predicts 34% of the observed variation in profitability. Each of these variables were questions related to the participants' personal attitudes or beliefs. Other assessed variables, such as specific husbandry behaviors or practices, or management practices and sociodemographic characteristics, did not warrant inclusion in the final model. These results uniquely contribute to understanding how the attitudes, personality, behaviors, and attributes of dairy farmers are associated with, and thus likely to influence, the profitability of their farm businesses.
6. Using a participatory approach to refining and prioritising recommendations for future extension delivery in the Tasmanian dairy industry
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hall, Alison (author), Turner, Lydia (author), and Kilpatrick, Sue (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Australia: Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11210
- Journal Title:
- Rural Extension and Innovation Systems Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 43-52
- Notes:
- Research effort to refine and prioritize recommendations for future extension and pasture management activities, based on a survey among Tasmanian dairy farmers. Findings led to recommendations involving pasture management training, identifying motivating values of farmers, and requirements for ongoing on-farm support.