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A Needs Assessment to Inform Research and Outreach Efforts for Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Food Production in the Western United States by Alexa J. Lamm; Kevan W. Lamm; Sara Trojan; Catherine E. Sanders; Allison R. Byrd is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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Increasing the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices can help maintain sufficient food production while reducing its environmental impact. To ensure this adoption, it is important to assess the research and training needs of those helping farmers and producers adopt sustainable agricultural practices. However, there is a gap in the literature related to the training needs of producers in the Western United States for sustainable agriculture. Needs assessments help organizations, such as the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and Cooperative Extension, to address the demonstrated needs of intended audiences. This study presents the results of a needs assessment with the objective of examining training needs and barriers to adoption to help direct extension programming for sustainable agricultural practices in the western region of the United States, to identify gaps, and to inform sustainable agriculture outreach programs. Using a modified Borich method with an inferential statistical method, the discrepancies between the level at which sustainable agricultural practice training competencies “should be addressed” and the level at which the

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Author

Alexa J. Lamm; Kevan W. Lamm; Sara Trojan; Catherine E. Sanders; Allison R. Byrd

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)