Kirschenmann, Frederick (author / Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture) and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-04-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23919
Notes:
Written for a conference considering Wendell Berry's Unsettling of America 25 years later, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2002. 15 pages.
Kroupa, E.A. (author), Walker, D.K. (author), and Dept of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dept of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 10 Document Number: B01397
Notes:
AgComm Teaching. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Madison, WI: Wisconsin Experiment Station, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 10pp (Research Report R2625)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09527
Notes:
Eugene A. Kroupa Collection, Thesis in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 220 pages.
Kroupa, Eugene A. (author) and Burnett, Claron (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1973
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 10 Document Number: B01396
Notes:
Claron Burnett collection. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Madison, Wisconsin: Research Division, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison, 27pp (Research Report R2506)
25 pages, The 2020 growing season presented new and significant challenges for farmers and farms across the United States as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. The rich and diverse agricultural landscape of Washington State offers a valuable microcosm in which to explore the experiences of farms in the U.S. during the pandemic. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on directly marketing small farms in western Washington State, with a focus on farmers’ experiences with resilience. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 15 farmers and used thematic analysis to explore the influence of the pandemic on overall experiences, responses, and values and perceptions related to small farms. Interviewees provided insights on the impacts of the pandemic on their daily farm operations, production costs, marketing channels, demand, and revenue. Farmers also reported shifting personal and public attitudes towards small farms during the pandemic. Product diversity, flexibility, multiple forms of support, values, and access to resources emerged as drivers of COVID-19 impacts and farm adaptations. When compared to existing frameworks on farm resilience, farms in this study are seen to demonstrate resilience via buffer and adaptive capabilities, which enable them to absorb and adjust to shocks. Farmers also discussed resilience via transformative capability, the potential to create new systems, leveraging the collective power of small farms to shape future food systems. Future research on the resilience of small farms should focus on ways to both promote resilience attributes and facilitate the ability of farmers to act on resilience capabilities.