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Perkins, Frederick A. – Ext Serv Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Food Stores, Marketing, Rural Extension
Swoboda, Donald W. – J Ext, 1970
Nebraska has been developing a two-way radio communication system for the Cooperative Extension Service, using the master microwave towers of the statewide emergency communication network. It has increased the efficiency of their limited human and economic resources. (NL)
Descriptors: Communications, Evaluation, Radio, Rural Extension
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Amend, Edwin H. – Journal of Extension, 1970
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Rural Extension, Supervision
Focht, John D. – Extension Service Review, 1971
Descriptors: Bulletins, Environmental Education, Rural Extension
Paul, L. C. – J Ext, 1970
Successful farmers have no intention of sharing their information and techniques. Extension workers must devise a means of discovering changes being made and ways for assisting the less progressive farmers. (NL)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Innovation, Rural Extension
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Ozor, N.; Agwu, A. E.; Chukwuone, N. A.; Madukwe, M. C.; Garforth, C. J. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2007
Cost-sharing, which involves government-farmer partnership in the funding of agricultural extension service, is one of the reforms aimed at achieving sustainable funding for extension systems. This study examined the perceptions of farmers and extension professionals on this reform agenda in Nigeria. The study was carried out in six geopolitical…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries, Sampling
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Movahedi, Reza; Chizari, Mohammad; Breazeale, Don – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2007
In order to improve the agricultural extension system of a country it is essential to link research units and extension activities. In this regard, one of the approaches, which are currently being carried out in Iran, is a joint research-extension plan (JREP). These plans were originally initiated in 1998 with the following objectives: 1) to…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Extension Agents, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Licht, Melea A. R.; Martin, Robert A. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine the agricultural information preferences of crop producers in Iowa and the implications for agricultural extension education. The objective was to identify agricultural information issues producers perceive as significant to their businesses. The results will help agricultural extension educators and…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Focus Groups, Marketing, Program Content
State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2011
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to such broad and fundamental questions of public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Taxes, Tax Effort, Income
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Dillman, Don A.; Lesser, Virginia; Mason, Robert; Carlson, John; Willits, Fern; Robertson, Rob; Burke, Bryan – Rural Sociology, 2007
The effect of personalization on mail survey response rates was examined in nine studies that included 17 comparisons under several research conditions. A study of this variable across multiple experiments in five agricultural experiment stations was undertaken because of conflicting results from previous research and from concern that the…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Evaluation Research, Agricultural Education, Rural Sociology
Karbasioun, Mostafa; Mulder, Martin; Biemans, Harm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to analyze farmers' experiences with and perceptions of agricultural extension courses and their instructors in Esfahan, Iran. This study is part of a larger project on the development of a competency profile of extension instructors. Many attempts have been made to develop competency profiles for professionals (Shim,…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Competence
Axinn, George H. – J Coop Ext, 1969
Descriptors: Agriculture, Computers, Rural Extension, Systems Approach
Silverman, Saul A. – J Coop Ext, 1969
Descriptors: Paraprofessional Personnel, Professional Personnel, Rural Extension
Byrn, Darcie – 1968
The outline has been used to classify the content of the Review of Extension Research, Bibliography on Extension Research, Bibliography on Foreign Based Extension, Recent Extension Research Reports, and additions to the Division File of Extension Research Materials. Major classification headings include administrative organization and management;…
Descriptors: Classification, Extension Education, Research, Rural Extension
Oberle, Wayne H. – J Ext, 1970
Many Extension Council members were recommended by associates or friends, a procedure that contributed to homogeneity in council membership. Such homogeneity may make it difficult for council members to perceive problems of clientele with characteristics or attitudes different from their own. (DM)
Descriptors: Committees, Governing Boards, Participation, Rural Extension
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