joining the dots: climate change, supply chains, rural restructuring and rural practice change
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by Neil Barr Full details see: http://www.ruralpracticechange.org/TRANSCRIPT
Farmer perceptions of regularly-used advisors Anderson-1974
• Serve farmer’s interests• Sympathetic• Help solve problems• Practical rather than theoretical
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Farm financial scale, land area, volume of productionVictoria 2001
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