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2. Adaptation of indigenous community agricultural systems on climate change (case study of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, Sukabumi Regency, West Java)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hapsari, H. (author), Hapsari, D. (author), Karyani, T. (author), and Fatimah, S. (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- IOP Publishing Ltd
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10909
- Journal Title Details:
- 306
- Notes:
- 10 pages., IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, via IOPScience website., Climate change is a threat to indigenous farming systems that rely on nature. Indigenous society has idiosyncrasies in managing agricultural systems that relate to nature. This study aims to examine the adaptation mechanism of indigenous farming systems to climate change in terms of social, economic, and technological aspects. The study was conducted in Indigenous Village of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar of Sukabumi Regency West Java. The research method is case study. The technique of collecting data through in-depth interviews with selected informants, participant observation, and focus group discussion (FGD). The results showed that the indigenous society of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar experienced the changes that occur in the environment as a result of climate change. Strategies to adapt to these changes, among others: (1) use natural resources in a sustainable manner, (2) preserve the customary positive impact on the environment, (3) do a crop rotation system, (4) managing the communal granary community food security system, (5) maintaining social values in the society, (6) establish cooperation with the agricultural institutions; (7) utilizing communication networks and information systems; (8) with some help from external parties in the repair of facilities and infrastructure, such as transportation and irrigation; (9) perform the processing of non-rice farming profit-oriented, and (10) instilling the values of local wisdom to the younger generation from an early age.
3. African culture of communication in the global village: the experience of Ogba people in Rivers State Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dike, Uche A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Nigeria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07143
- Journal Title:
- Open Journal of Philosophy
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(1A) : 122-125
- Notes:
- How/Why traditional media (e.g., town crier) have survived the test of time.
4. Agricultural trade publications and the 2012 Midwestern U.S. drought: A missed opportunity for climate risk communication
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Church, Sarah P. (author), Haigh, Tonya (author), Widhalm, Melissa (author), Garcia de Jalon, Silvestre (author), Babin, Nicholas (author), Carlton, J. Stuart (author), Dunn, Michael (author), Fagan, Katie (author), Knutson, Cody L. (author), and Prokopy, Linda S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier Science BV
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10262
- Journal Title:
- Climate Risk Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 45-60
- Notes:
- 16 pages., Via online journal., The Midwestern United States experienced a devastating drought in 2012, leading to reduced corn and soybean yields and increased instances of pests and disease. Climate change induced weather variability and extremes are expected to increase in the future, and have and will continue to impact the agricultural sector. This study investigated how agricultural trade publications portrayed the 2012 U.S. Midwestern drought, whether climate change was associated with drought, and whether these publications laid out transformative adaptation measures farmers could undertake in order to increase their adaptive capacity for future climate uncertainty. We performed a content analysis of 1000 media reports between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2014, sampled from ten agricultural trade publications. The results lead us to suggest that trade publications’ 2012 U.S. Midwestern drought discussion lacked information that would allow farmers and agricultural advisors to assess climate change risk and subsequent potential adaptive management strategies. Agricultural risk from climate change is very real, and farmers will need to adapt. The agricultural trade publications studied missed an opportunity to convey risk from climate change and the transformative adaptation practices necessary for a sustainable and resilient agricultural system.
5. Awareness, Access and Utilization of Information on Climate Change by Farmers in Zamfara State, Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chukwuji, Charles Nwabueze (author), Tsafe, Aliyu Gadanga (author), Sayudi, Sale (author), Yusuf, Zainab (author), and Zakariya, Ja'afar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 208 Document Number: D12374
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Winter 2019
- Notes:
- 25 pages., The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consisted 1200 respondents comprising (staff of the Zamfara State Agricultural Development Project, FADAMA III Project, IFAD, Animal rearers and Farmers). Instruments of data collection used for the study were the questionnaire, interview and discussions. One thousand two hundred questionnaires were distributed to respondents and only 988 (82.2%) were dully returned and found usable. The results of the responses were interpreted using simple percentage and frequency tables. The findings of the study include, that 95% of Zamfara State population are farmers, Maru and Gusau Local Government Areas recorded the highest farmers’ population. It was also discovered that there was a high rate of awareness of climate change information in the State with Radio, Television, extension services as major sources of climate change information in the State. It was also discovered that farmers in the State utilize climate change information like taking decisions on what and when to plant, planting improved crop varieties among others. There is also the challenges of reduction in annual rainfall, deforestation, insect-pests attack, high temperature among others. Recommendations were made for intensified awareness campaign on climate change, increased budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector for more mitigation and adaptation capacity for the farmers.
6. Climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and adaptation behavior among Midwestern U.S. crop farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mase, Amber Saylor (author), Gramig, Benjamin M. (author), and Prokopy, Linda Stalker (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09016
- Journal Title:
- Climate Risk Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 15 : 8-17
7. Climate change typologies and audience segmentation among corn belt farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arbuckle, J.G. (author), Tyndall, J.C. (author), Morton, L.W. (author), and Hobbs, J. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05
- Published:
- USA: Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10145
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 72(3): 205-214
- Notes:
- 10 pages., Via online journal., Development of natural resource user typologies has been viewed as a potentially effective means of improving the effectiveness of natural resource management engagement strategies. Prior research on Corn Belt farmers’ perspectives on climate change employed a latent class analysis (LCA) that created a six-class typology—the Concerned, Uneasy, Uncertain, Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached—to develop a better understanding of farmer perspectives on climate change and inform more effective climate adaptation and mitigation outreach strategies. The LCA employed 34 variables that are generally unobservable—beliefs about climate change, experience with extreme weather, perceived risks of climate change, and attitudes toward climate action—to identify types. The research reported in this paper builds on this typology of Corn Belt farmers by exploring 33 measures of observable farm enterprise characteristics, land management practices, and farmer demographics to assess whether variations in these observable characteristics between the six farmer classes display systematic patterns that might be sufficiently distinctive to guide audience segmentation strategies. While analyses detected some statistically significant differences, there were few systematic, meaningful observable patterns of difference between groups of farmers with differing perspectives on climate change. In other words, farmers who believe that anthropogenic climate change is occurring, that it poses risks to agriculture, and that adaptive action should be taken, may look very much like farmers who deny the existence of climate change and do not support action. The overall implication of this finding is that climate change engagement efforts by Extension and other agricultural advisors should use caution when looking to observable characteristics to facilitate audience segmentation. Additional analyses indicated that the farmer types that tended to be more concerned about climate change and supportive of adaptive action (e.g., Concerned and Uneasy) reported that they were more influenced by key private and public sector actors in agricultural social networks. On the other hand, farmers who were not concerned about climate change or supportive of adaptation (e.g., the Unconcerned, Confident, and Detached groups, comprising between one-third and one-half of respondents) were less integrated into agricultural networks. This suggests that Extension and other agricultural advisors should expand outreach efforts to farmers who are not already within their spheres of influence.
8. Climate change, farming, and gardening in alaska: cultivating opportunities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fresco, Nancy (author), Bennett, Alec (author), Bieniek, Peter (author), and Rosner, Carolyn (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-18
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12401
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 13, N. 22
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Ongoing climate change and associated food security concerns are pressing issues globally, and are of particular concern in the far north where warming is accelerated and markets are remote. The objective of this research was to model current and projected climate conditions pertinent to gardeners and farmers in Alaska. Research commenced with information-sharing between local agriculturalists and climate modelers to determine primary questions, available data, and effective strategies. Four variables were selected: summer season length, growing degree days, temperature of the coldest winter day, and plant hardiness zone. In addition, peonies were selected as a case study. Each variable was modeled using regional projected climate data downscaled using the delta method, followed by extraction of key variables (e.g., mean coldest winter day for a given decade). An online interface was developed to allow diverse users to access, manipulate, view, download, and understand the data. Interpretive text and a summary of the case study explained all of the methods and outcomes. The results showed marked projected increases in summer season length and growing degree days coupled with seasonal shifts and warmer winter temperatures, suggesting that agriculture in Alaska is undergoing and will continue to undergo profound change. This presents opportunities and challenges for farmers and gardeners.
9. Determinants of farmers' climate risk perceptions in agriculture - a rural Ghana perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ndamani, Francis (author) and Watanabe, Tsunemi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-13
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08773
- Journal Title:
- Water
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3)
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
10. Exploring the barriers to the adoption of climate-smart irrigation technologies for sustainable crop productivity by smallholder farmers: evidence from South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Serote, Batizi (author), Mokgehle, Salmina (author), Senyolo, Grany (author), Plooy, Christian du (author), Hlophe‐Ginindza, Samkelisiwe (author), Mpandel, Sylvester (author), Nhamo, Luxon (author), and Araya, Hintsa (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-19
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12769
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Climate change continues to impact the livelihoods of smallholder farmers due to low adaptive capacity. In South Africa, the challenge is exacerbated by water scarcity and shortened crop-growing seasons. Climate-smart irrigation innovative technologies (CSIT) enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change. However, there is still a limited level of effective adoption and usage of these technologies in smallholder communities. This study investigated the barriers affecting the adoption of CSIT in rural areas of the Vhembe and Capricorn districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa. We explored the farmers’ socioeconomic factors extracted from farmers’ perceptions of CSIT-specific attributes. A multi-stage randomized sampling technique was used to select 100 smallholder farmers (SHF). Data analyzed by descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency distribution are presented in graphs and tables. According to the findings, insufficient communication channels, a lack of financial availability, unstable land tenure systems, and insufficient training are the main obstacles to implementing CSIT. There is a need for policy and decision-makers to improve the communication channels for disseminating agro-meteorological information to the intended beneficiaries.
11. Farmers perception on climate change and determinants of adaptation strategies in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State of Ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mesfin, Afeworki H. (author) and Bekele, Adam (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Ethiopia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11081
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(5) : 453-469
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Policy implications from findings suggested that improved access to credit, production factors (like land, labor) enhancing the bargaining power of smallholder farmers can significally increase farm-level adaption to climate change.
12. Growing food, growing a movement: climate adaptation and civic agriculture in the southeastern united states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Furman, Carrie (author), Roncoli, Carla (author), Nelson, Donald R (author), and Hoogenboom, Gerrit (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Published:
- Netherlands: Springer Science & Business Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12244
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 31, iss. 1
- Notes:
- 15 pages, his article examines the role that civic agriculture in Georgia (US) plays in shaping attitudes, strategies, and relationships that foster both sustainability and adaptation to a changing climate. Civic agriculture is a social movement that attracts a specific type of "activist" farmer, who is linked to a strong social network that includes other farmers and consumers. Positioning farmers' practices within a social movement broadens the understanding of adaptive capacity beyond how farmers adapt to understand why they do so. By drawing upon qualitative and quantitative data and by focusing on the cosmological, organizational, and technical dimensions of the social movement, the study illuminates how social values and networks shape production and marketing strategies that enable farmers to share resources and risks. We propose a conceptual framework for understanding how technical and social strategies aimed to address the sustainability goals of the movement also increase adaptive capacity at multiple timescales. In conclusion, we outline directions for future research, including the need for longitudinal studies that focus on consumer motivation and willingness to pay, the effects of scale on consumer loyalty and producer cooperation, and the role of a social movement in climate change adaptation. Finally, we stress that farmers' ability to thrive in uncertain climate futures calls for transformative approaches to sustainable agriculture that support the development of strong social networks.
13. How to communicate with farmers about climate change: Farmers’ perceptions and adaptations to increasingly variable weather patterns in Maine (USA)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jemison, John M. Jr. (author), Hall, Damon (author), Welcomer, Stephanie (author), and Haskell, Jane (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-07-23
- Published:
- New Leaf Associates, Inc
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10991
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(4):57-70
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., While dealing with weather variability has always been a source of stress for farmers, a generally warmer, wetter climate with the potential for increasingly intensive precipitation poses a threat to long-term farm viability. Knowing how farmers think about increasingly variable weather patterns (IVWP) is important for educators, agency staff, and others to learn how to work with producers on adaptation strategies to protect natural resources and prevent crop failure. In 2011, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension conducted focus group sessions with farmers from seven different commodity groups, five mixed farmer sessions, and two sessions with consultants, educators, and agency staff who work with growers to learn about grower perceptions of environmental changes, and to learn about changes they may be making to their farming operations to protect their operations from IVWP. Farmers discussed over 40 practices that could be construed as adaptation measures to buffer against IVWP. Fruit (apple and blueberry) growers spent the most time on the subject and expressed the most concern about the effects of IVWP, while dairy and potato growers spent the least. Given the divergence of opinion on the subject of climate change that Maine growers expressed, successful outreach education through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cooperative Extension should likely emphasize short-term risk management, resilience, and stability of farm operations as opposed to communicating the need to adopt strategies based on climate change.
14. How to talk with ranchers about drought and climate resilience: lessons from knowledge exchange workshops in montana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lassa, Mitch J. (author), Wilmer, Hailey (author), Boone, Madison (author), Brown, Zach (author), Derner, Justin D. (author), Peck, Dannele E. (author), Thissen, Carmen (author), and Marlow, Clayton (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: D12286
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 58, Num. 5
- Notes:
- 15 pages, This article offers the Extension community a pathway to drought resilience and climate-related conversations through knowledge exchange workshops. In 2017, a "flash drought" affected eastern Montana, and ranchers in the region faced numerous challenges. Moreover, drought-favorable climate conditions are predicted to increase for the region. We held five workshops to facilitate an exchange of adaptive drought management strategies, focusing on key themes for drought resilience: (a) drought planning and adaptive management, (b) use of local knowledge networks, (c) flexible stocking and grazing, and (d) adaptation to shifting baselines. Extension can use this approach to foster multidirectional knowledge sharing to strengthen ranching resilience to drought conditions.
15. Mental wellbeing of children engaged in agricultural work activities and quality of family environment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lachowski, S. (author), Lachowska, B. (author), and Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Jaczewskiego 2, 20-950 Lublin, Poland,
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Poland
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07821
- Journal Title:
- Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 (1): 115-121
16. Perceiving to learn or learning to perceive? Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaption to climate uncertainties
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nguyen, Thi Phuoc Lai (author), Seddaiu, Giovanna (author), Virdis, Salvatore Gonario Pasquale (author), Tidore, Camillo (author), Pasqui, Massimiliano (author), and Roggero, Pier Paolo (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03
- Published:
- Italy: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07797
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 143: 205-216
17. Perception and adaptation to higher temperatures among poultry farmers in Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sanou, Awa (author), Kerr, John (author), Hodbod, Jennifer (author), and Saweda, Linda (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-19
- Published:
- International: Springer Link
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12566
- Journal Title:
- Environment Development and Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 23
- Notes:
- 8 pahes, The poultry sector is large and expanding in the global South, playing a central role in providing increased protein to a rapidly growing base of consumers. The sector includes small backyard farms, small commercial operations, and very large, complex enterprises. Although there is substantial literature on climate adaptation by crop farmers and large livestock farmers, such information is limited for poultry. This study focuses on the effects of higher temperatures on commercial poultry farms in southwest Nigeria and their adaptation strategies. We use a rich set of in-depth interviews to describe how poultry farmers are adapting to higher temperatures and their reasons for adopting particular practices. In general, interviewees are aware that temperatures have increased over time and that heat stress reduces poultry productivity in terms of weight gain and laying capacity. They are knowledgeable and are not passively enduring the adverse effects of higher temperatures as they have adopted a range of adaptation practices. This study identified three main adaptation strategies: (i) keeping drinking water cool, (ii) keeping the building cool and increasing ventilation, and (iii) giving birds medicines and supplements that help them cope with increased heat. Small farms tend to adopt simple and low-cost practices, and large farms tend to adopt more sophisticated and expensive approaches, in line with the nature of their respective operations. The paper’s findings can help address gaps in strategies aiming to help this critically important sector of the food system be robust to future environmental change.
18. Perceptions of the fourth agricultural revolution: what’s in, what’s out, and what consequences are anticipated?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barrett, Hannah (author) and Rose, David Christian (author)
- Format:
- Jounal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-30
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12811
- Journal Title:
- Sociologia Ruralis
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 62, Issue 2, Pages 162 - 189
- Notes:
- 28pgs, Technological advancement is seen as one way of sustainably intensifying agriculture. Scholars argue that innovation needs to be responsible, but it is difficult to anticipate the consequences of the ‘fourth agricultural revolution’ without a clear sense of which technologies are included and excluded. The major aims of this article were to investigate which technologies are being associated with the fourth agricultural revolution, as well as to understand how this revolution is being perceived, whether positive or negative consequences are given equal attention, and what type of impacts are anticipated. To this end, we undertook a content analysis of UK media and policy documents alongside interviews of farmers and advisers. We found that the fourth agricultural revolution is associated with emergent, game-changing technologies, at least in media and policy documents. In these sources, the benefits to productivity and the environment were prioritised with less attention to social consequences, but impacts were overwhelmingly presented positively. Farmers and advisers experienced many benefits of technologies and some predicted higher-tech futures. It was clear, however, that technologies create a number of negative consequences. We reflect on these findings and provide advice to policy-makers about how to interrogate the benefits, opportunities, and risks afforded by agricultural technologies.
19. Progressive Farmer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hillyer, Gregg (author)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05
- Published:
- USA: DTN
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13192
- Journal Title Details:
- May 2020
- Notes:
- 58 pages. Articles of interest may include: "The Keys to Great Communication," and "Work Boosts Grazing."
20. Seeing is not always believing: crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Niles, Meredith T. (author), Wiener, Sarah (author), Schattman, Rachel E. (author), Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle (author), and Reyes, Julian (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-26
- Published:
- USA: IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10345
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Research Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(4)
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Via online journal article., As climate change is expected to significantly affect agricultural systems globally, agricultural farm advisors have been increasingly recognized as an important resource in helping farmers address these challenges. While there have been many studies exploring the climate change belief and risk perceptions as well as behaviors of both farmers and agricultural farm advisors, there are very few studies that have explored how these perceptions relate to actual climate impacts in agriculture. Here we couple survey data from United States Department of Agriculture farm service employees (n = 6, 514) with historical crop loss data across the United States to explore the relationship of actual climate-related crop losses on farm to farm advisor perceptions of climate change and future farmer needs. Using structural equation modelling we find that among farm advisors that work directly with farms on disaster and crop loss issues, there is a significant positive relationship between crop loss and perceived weather variability changes, while across all farm advisors crop loss is associated with reduced likelihood to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Further, we find that weather variability perceptions are the most consistently and highly correlated with farm advisors' perceptions about the need for farm adaptation and future farmer needs. These results suggest that seeing crop loss may not lead to climate change belief, but may drive weather variability perceptions, which in turn affect farm adaptation perceptions. This lends further evidence to the debate over terminology in climate change communication and outreach, suggesting that weather variability may be the most salient among agricultural advisors.