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Educational Programs for Commercial Dairymen¹

University of Florida, Gainesville 32611

ABSTRACT

The number of large dairy herds is increasing. Large herds include more audience groups than do traditional family-owned and operated herds. Every audience group or skill level requires a different educational package; developing these packages may require a different kind of research support that is customarily available. Working on specific problems of large herds is a prerequisite for developing educational programs. It also can add to academic ability to deal with emerging problems, provide training for students and current examples for teaching, increase access to firm-level data, and may afford an opportunity for additional funds. In this paper some innovate educational efforts by different professionals are reviewed; the changing character of Extension work is discussed; and some vehicles for doing user-funded work are compared, with special reference to problems associated with direct consulting.

¹ This paper benefited from reviews by Ken Clayton, Dan Gunter, and Jim Niles.

² Associate Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida.