small-scale farms; (5) limitations on total of all types of

 compensatory payments to any individual; or (6) compensatory

 payments as either cost-sharing or income supplements for

 practices important to the economic viability of small farms?

 (e) What are the relationships between the level and stability

 of income and small-scale farmers' mobility?

 (f) What is the relationship between risk reduction from disaster

 protection or crop insurance and farm viability by farm size?

 How would alternative types of programs distribute benefits and

 costs (in the case of insurance) among farms of different sizes?

 Extension

 Although Extension has conducted special pilot projects for small-

scale farmers in many States which are fairly well documented, there

are no definitive data on the extent of small-scale farmer participa-

tion in regular Extension activities, most of which are probably not

specific to farm size. While many small-scale farmers undoubtedly

benefit from mediated, nonsize specific Extension activities, it

appears that small-scale farmers do not avail themselves of such

activities to the same extent as larger-scale farmers.

 The Extension small farm pilot projects appear to have confirmed

the hypothesis that same small-scale farmers do not benefit as much as

others from regular Extension activities and that small-scale farmers

will participate in and benefit from intensive education activities

conducted by someone they can more easily relate to on a level they

readily comprehend.

 In designing Extension programs for small-scale farmers, whether

as part of regular Extension activities or as intensive, one-on-one