UK: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07289
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes8 Document Number: D09067
Notes:
Includes Documents C12219 "The effective consultant or technical assistant in agricultural communications in developing countries" and C08809 "Staffing the U.S. contribution to international development assistance in agriculture"., Francis C. Byrnes Collection
6 pages, Profit teams comprise multiple consultants engaged to support farmer decision making by holistically analyzing farm challenges. We tested the idea of using profit teams to help advanced beginning farmers, those who are beyond start-up but have been in business less than 10 years, address constraints to growing their businesses. These new entrepreneurs often have entered agriculture without a family farming history or a connection to Extension. We describe the processes of selecting farmers and administering teams, and we highlight significant improvements in quality of life, production, and profitability reported by 35 farmers. Our lessons learned may guide other educators and funders in developing profit teams for their beginning farmer clients.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09569
Notes:
Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Notes from a session of the International Interest Group of the Association for Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE). 3 pages.
