Volume
58
Issue
4
DOI
10.34068/joe.58.04.19
Abstract
eOrganic, the Organic Agriculture Community of eXtension, has conducted webinars on organic farming research for over a decade. I examined questions asked by farmers and university researchers or educators during 52 webinars presented 2015–2017. A higher proportion of questions asked by farmers than questions asked by researchers/educators were about risks, benefits, and problem solving, and the farmers' questions contained many innovative ideas about production. A higher proportion of researcher/educator questions than farmer questions related to details of research studies, though farmers also posed questions about research methods. This article contains suggestions about tailoring research presentations to farmer audiences and confirms the mutual benefits of collaborations between farmers and researchers.
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Recommended Citation
Formiga, A. K. (2020). Questions Farmers Ask: Implications for Improving Information Resources for Farmer Audiences. The Journal of Extension, 58(4), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.04.19
