2019 ASHS Annual Conference

Researchers and students will benefit from this training presentation, designed to provide useful tips for tailoring your research to an audience of farmers and agricultural educators and service providers. Researchers and students may need to communicate their results to farmer audiences as part of the outreach component of grants; yet some may not often work together with farmers, so might not be well acquainted with farmers' needs and priorities. In addition, they may not have experience writing and speaking to an audience who is less familiar with the scientific terms, acronyms, or statistical analysis that researchers use to publish their results in academic journals--yet who is much more knowledgeable about the practice and economic risks of crop production. Extension educators Annette Wszelaki of the University of Tennesese and Javier Fernandez-Salvador will discuss how to write for a farmer audience, and Alice Formiga of eOrganic will share information from eOrganic webinars on the kinds of questions farmers ask, as well as working with researchers to adapt their presentations for farmers. This information will inform students who wish to submit an article to eOrganic on their research or participate in future eOrganic article competitions.