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Lionberger, Herbert F.; Wong, Tso Sang – 1979
Growing concern that the Cooperative Extension Service was failing to adequately reach small farmers with education materials through regular extension channels led to the implementation of Missouri's Small Farm Family Program. In this program, education assistants, many of whom are small farmers themselves, link the educational resources of the…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agriculture, Attitudes, Change Agents
Enlow, George; And Others – 1979
Records maintained by rural extension designees on the Missouri Small Farm Family Program, (initiated in 1972 by the cooperative extension service to help low income farm families learn to use available resources to improve their quality of life) provided data re: family characteristics, farm improvement progress, and improvement in the quality of…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Economic Status
Lasley, Paul, Comp.; And Others – 1986
The 12 states comprising the North Central Region have been affected in similar ways by the farm crisis of the 1980s. Statewide surveys show sizeable proportions of farm operations that are experiencing moderately high levels of financial stress. The problems caused by chronic stress on family structure and functioning, the loss of mainstreet…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Action, Community Problems, Economic Status