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extension agents into the project, and concerns were raised by agents regarding whether farmers understood the distinction between farming systems and extension personnel; 2) the team needed to collaborate more with IFAS research scientists; and 3) a field-based agent with local laborers would make operations more efficient. After these problems were discussed in detail, the team worked to ameliorate them. By late summer of 1982, the team initiated planning of on-farm activities with extension agents, coordinated its research with interested collaborators at the Live Oak ASi-i-,- -J irch Station, theauibti
Acricultural wa-W&9 l t9?i and in GainesvTIle, and obtained funding to hire "paraprofessionals" in the two counties, to be supervised by an FSR/E field agent (Swisher).
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Figure 3. Organization of NorthCi Florida Farming
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1981-82.
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Figure 3. Organization of North Florida Farming
Systems Research And Extension Project,
1981-82..