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Providing Agricultural Information To Amish And Mennonite Farmers: Creative Adaptations To Wisconsin Extension Programs And Communications, Richard Halopka Dec 2021

Providing Agricultural Information To Amish And Mennonite Farmers: Creative Adaptations To Wisconsin Extension Programs And Communications, Richard Halopka

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

This service provider report taps into the experience of a longtime Extension Educator in Wisconsin. Pulling from his work in Clark County, WI, where Amish and Old Order Mennonites have been particularly important to the local agricultural economy, he provides examples of how Extension can modify programming to meet the needs of plain producers. Topics of interest to Amish and Mennonite farmers include nutrient management, forage quality, and farm safety. Areas of program modification include approaches to communication, training, and support in ways that are culturally sensitive to church restrictions. In-person training and informational voicemail recordings have been particularly useful …

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Effective Communication And Programming When Working With Amish Farmers: Reflections From A Wisconsin Agriculture Educator, Vance Haugen Dec 2021

Effective Communication And Programming When Working With Amish Farmers: Reflections From A Wisconsin Agriculture Educator, Vance Haugen

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The author, an agricultural educator who worked with the Amish in Wisconsin for over 30 years, discusses his outreach efforts, which have been focused on managed grazing, a method well suited to Amish producers. Managed grazing offers agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits. A key educational tool for communicating managed grazing practices is the pasture walk, and the author relates lessons learned from these events. The communal nature and focus on farmer-to-farmer information exchange is well received by Amish producers. It is helpful if pasture walk scheduling is done well in advance and is focused on farmer-based problems with farmer-based solutions …

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Ohio’S Amish And Mennonite Produce Growers: Farm Trends, Information Needs, And Agricultural Communication Preferences, Brad Bergefurd Dec 2021

Ohio’S Amish And Mennonite Produce Growers: Farm Trends, Information Needs, And Agricultural Communication Preferences, Brad Bergefurd

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

This study (1) describes the characteristics of Ohio Amish and Mennonite produce farmers and their operations; (2) determines awareness of and participation in OSU Extension programs by Amish and Mennonite produce farmers; (3) determines the methods used by Amish and Mennonite produce farmers to acquire farming information; and (4) identifies subject matter needs of Amish and Mennonite produce farmers for future Extension programming. In order to provide effective future Extension programming efforts for this particular clientele, a mail survey was used to collect data from 345 Ohio Amish and Mennonite farmers who participate at Ohio produce auctions. They were asked …

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The Success Of Plain People’S Produce Auctions And Partnership With Missouri Extension, James Quinn, John Kruse, Londa Nwadike, James C. Piñero, David Trinklein Dec 2021

The Success Of Plain People’S Produce Auctions And Partnership With Missouri Extension, James Quinn, John Kruse, Londa Nwadike, James C. Piñero, David Trinklein

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The number of produce auctions led by plain Anabaptist producers has surged since the mid-1990s. Typically grower-owned, these businesses are centralized facilities providing a wholesale market to area growers for a diverse group of buyers. For growers seeking an adequate living from growing produce, these facilities help reduce marketing time and product transportation, and provide frequent sales events that guarantee payment. As such, they have developed into a solid and long-standing market for local produce. However, plain growers have experienced challenges trying new crops or scaling up production. This article details how Missouri Extension assisted plain farmers with their challenges …

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Methodological Considerations For Amish-Focused Opinion Research: Lessons From A Study Of Beliefs And Practices About Agriculture And The Environment, David Hockman-Wert Dec 2021

Methodological Considerations For Amish-Focused Opinion Research: Lessons From A Study Of Beliefs And Practices About Agriculture And The Environment, David Hockman-Wert

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Certain aspects of Amish agriculture have been studied extensively but much is still unknown about Amish environmental attitudes and beliefs. This is due, in part, to the difficulty of directly soliciting responses from adherents. This article—part of a larger study of the Kishacoquillas Valley Amish settlement in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania—reflects on methodological challenges that arose during a study on Amish environmental attitudes and behaviors. Farmers from two Amish groups, as well as two non-Amish groups used for comparison, were interviewed about their environmental attitudes. Recruiting Amish participants for interviews was difficult due to the limited use of modern telecommunications technology, …

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Farm Food Safety Training For Amish Produce Growers Covered Under The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma), Luke Laborde, Jeffrey Stoltzfus, Kaila Thorn Dec 2021

Farm Food Safety Training For Amish Produce Growers Covered Under The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma), Luke Laborde, Jeffrey Stoltzfus, Kaila Thorn

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Commercial production of fruits and vegetables on Amish farms provides significant amounts of fresh produce that are regionally distributed through wholesale markets. In response to several multi-state foodborne disease outbreaks linked to contamination of fresh produce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated farm food safety standards that most commercial produce growers must implement. Although there have been no foodborne disease outbreaks attributed to fresh produce grown on Amish farms, this regulation poses regulatory challenges for those who sell produce at wholesale produce auctions, cooperatives, and distribution warehouses. This article describes recent farm food safety standards issued by the …

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Performing Amish Agrarianism: Negotiating Tradition In The Maintenance Of Pennsylvania Dairy Farms, Nicole Welk-Joerger Dec 2021

Performing Amish Agrarianism: Negotiating Tradition In The Maintenance Of Pennsylvania Dairy Farms, Nicole Welk-Joerger

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Amish people have a reputation for being ecologically and environmentally conscientious. As numerous scholars in Amish and Plain Anabaptist studies have demonstrated, Amish views of the environment are diverse and ultimately anchored in the understanding that God made nature for human use. In these cases, Amish views of the environment could be described as much more anchored in traditional philosophical notions of “agrarianism” than “environmentalism.” In this article, I explore how some Amish approach agrarianism with a turn from more traditional farm life toward necessary economic engagement with multi-faceted operations and diversification. Based on intensive ethnographic research and participant observation, …

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Caring For The Land And The Livestock: Anabaptist Agricultural Practices In Europe And Colonial Pennsylvania, Rebecca Shenton Dec 2021

Caring For The Land And The Livestock: Anabaptist Agricultural Practices In Europe And Colonial Pennsylvania, Rebecca Shenton

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Anabaptists have a strong history of agricultural innovation and care for the land. Their innovative spirit was forged out of persecution, migration, and the need to survive in challenging circumstances. This article examines the agricultural practices of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swiss and South German Anabaptist farmers and those of eighteenth-century Anabaptist immigrants to Pennsylvania. European Anabaptist tenant farmers distinguished themselves by their family-centered mixed agriculture and their investment in both the land (using manure, lime, gypsum, and crop rotation to improve the soil) and livestock (improving natural meadows and planting pastures for fodder, maintaining clean barns, practicing confinement feeding, and …

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Title Page And Table Of Contents 9(2), Japas Editors Dec 2021

Title Page And Table Of Contents 9(2), Japas Editors

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

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Guest Editor’S Introduction: Outreach And Applied Agriculture Research With Plain Anabaptists: Lessons Learned And Future Directions, Caroline Brock Dec 2021

Guest Editor’S Introduction: Outreach And Applied Agriculture Research With Plain Anabaptists: Lessons Learned And Future Directions, Caroline Brock

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

This issue of the Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies (JAPAS) contributes to a dearth of literature on ways to understand how plain Anabaptist culture influences agri-environmental beliefs and practices and how it informs outreach and research. Only a few studies currently focus on outreach with plain Anabaptist growers (e.g., Brock, Ulrich-Schad, and Prokopy 2018; Bergefurd 2011; Jepsen and Mann 2015; Stoltzfus 2019; Hoorman and Spencer 2001/2002). This issue of JAPAS is the first comprehensive publication to include research articles and service provider reports focusing on plain people and agriculture. This issue addresses the history of Anabaptist …

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Front Matter, Editors Dec 2021

Front Matter, Editors

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Exile Talks To Poet Deborah Digges, Colin Bossen Dec 2021

Exile Talks To Poet Deborah Digges, Colin Bossen

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Untitled (Artwork), Kate Graf Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Kate Graf

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Body (Artwork), Todd Gys Dec 2021

Body (Artwork), Todd Gys

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Untitled (Artwork), Anne Couyoumjian Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Anne Couyoumjian

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Untitled (Artwork), Sam H. Dodson Iv Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Sam H. Dodson Iv

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Untitled (Artwork), Ashley Puckett Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Ashley Puckett

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Untitled (Artwork), Frederick Learey Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Frederick Learey

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Untitled (Artwork), Bryan Zink Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Bryan Zink

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Untitled (Artwork), Michael Klabunde Dec 2021

Untitled (Artwork), Michael Klabunde

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Red, Black, Yellow, White (Artwork), S. O'Farrell Dec 2021

Red, Black, Yellow, White (Artwork), S. O'Farrell

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Untitled (Photograph), Michael Klabunde Dec 2021

Untitled (Photograph), Michael Klabunde

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Las Flores De La Luna: The Flowers Of The Moon, Edward Knotek Ii Dec 2021

Las Flores De La Luna: The Flowers Of The Moon, Edward Knotek Ii

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Auction, Erin Malone Dec 2021

Auction, Erin Malone

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The Writer's Wife, Alison Stine Dec 2021

The Writer's Wife, Alison Stine

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In The Kitchen, Colin Bossen Dec 2021

In The Kitchen, Colin Bossen

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Cliché, Angel Lemke Dec 2021

Cliché, Angel Lemke

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Your Worshipfulness, Bekah Taylor Dec 2021

Your Worshipfulness, Bekah Taylor

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Thoughts On A Word: A Song Of No Joy In Six Parts, Colin Bossen Dec 2021

Thoughts On A Word: A Song Of No Joy In Six Parts, Colin Bossen

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The Tearoom, Latisha Newton Dec 2021

The Tearoom, Latisha Newton

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