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The study undertook showed some pragmatic conclusions concerning how the consulting activity evolves in Olt County, in terms of farmers benefiting from agricultural advice. Through its quality, consultancy seeks through its specific methods, to be equally appreciated by the beneficiaries. Normally, agricultural consultancy, should be assessed, approximately equally by farmers, i.e. that there may not be no significant differences of appreciation over the areas analyzed, namely: projects preparation (Sapard and others), plants protection, chemical fertilizer procurement, procurement of pesticides, purchase of agricultural equipment, purchase of seeds and planting, animal husbandry, in various forms. From the analysis of the responses showed that farmers in Olt County, the geographical shape of the County is of particular importance to the ways of the consultancy evaluation, resulting in appreciations of significant differentiation from all areas, excluding the purchase of seeds and planting material, where appreciation was similar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the research is to review the production of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) in Slovenia, with a focus on arable and livestock farms in Spodnja Savinjska dolina, where the majority of Slovenian hop (Humulus lupulus L.) production is. Everything indicates that the poor sales of hop on the world market in the last years will lengthen strand on hop fields. It is therefore necessary to take care for complete and as much as possible biologically balanced crop rotation in the time of strands. More and more recent studies discuss about proso millet in production and nutrition. The meaning and the use of proso millet in the nutrition was checked at surveyed students and agricultural consultants, that we offered milky millet porridge for tasting; a dish that was in the past often a basic food. In the two groups of surveyed from all regions of Slovenia, we found out the lack of knowledge of Slovenian ethnic dishes of millet and its absence in the nutrition; 42% of students and 21% of agricultural consultants have never tried milky millet porridge and other millet dishes. It appeared that both groups of surveyed had very favourable opinion about the taste of millet milk porridge, which encouraged their thinking about repositioning of the millet on fields and menus. The goal of research is to extend the knowledge about the production and the use, and obtain millet growers and users with tasting of dishes from millet porridge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to understand the role that agricultural consultants in New Zealand were undertaking in the Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) system—and in particular in relation to environmental extension. New Zealand does not have a public extension service and hence there is a strong reliance on consultants and regional councils for environmental management information and advice. As they are independent of the formal RD&E system there is no guarantee that RD&E outcomes are reaching farmers, nor that effective environmental extension is occurring. The study used a combination of case studies, phone interviews with informed persons and a national web survey to explore the role of the consultant. The study found that agricultural consultants are playing an important role in working with farmers to improve agricultural production. There are, however, indications that gaps have developed over time between agricultural consultants and the agricultural research sector which limit the effectiveness of the RD&E system. Agricultural consultants are playing a minimal role in proactive environmental extension because insufficient market forces are driving this role. The paper suggests that a national database of agricultural consultants could improve the flow of tailored information between research and agricultural consultants and also suggests mechanisms where consultants could be better integrated into the RD&E system and provide feedback to research programs. Market failure in the area of environmental extension could be addressed by publicly funded incentive programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which examines the residues of insecticides on crop consultant clothing in soybean fields treated with non-conventional application technology. It says that the soybean fields were aerially sprayed with three treatments of permethrin, and the residues were analyzed by gas chromatography and analysis of variance. Result shows that permethrin concentration was absent in extracts from T-shirts specimes, and residues were detected on leg specimens.

The article offers information on the Workshop for Consultants and Farm System Groups by Agricultural Institute Australia in cooperation with the Australian Association of Agricultural Consultants in Bungaree Station in Clare, South Australia on March 27, 2014. Topics discussed include changing business environment for services offered by consultants and farm systems, the change in mindset of farmers and farming practices needed to increase Australian food production, and climate change.

Due to the limited number of apple IPM consultants in Wisconsin and the high cost of hiring consultants, few Wisconsin apple growers have been able to take advantage of professional consultant expertise in implementing IPM on their orchards. To address this need, the Eco-Apple Project launched a blog in 2006 and free weekly conference calls with an apple IPM consultant in 2007. We found that the combined package of Web and telephone communications had a low cost relative to one-on-one service, gave growers a chance to learn from each other, saved the IPM consultant time, and was useful to growers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]