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Volume 5, issue 2

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Evaluating Incentive Program Success: A Hill Land Class Fencing Case Study

Lisa Cowan, Chris Linehan and Geoff Kaine

Who Really Matters? A Stakeholder Analysis Tool

Nicole Kennon, Peter Howden and Meredith Hartley

Partner Farms in Multidisciplinary Research: The Continuing Evolution of a Research and Development Methodology

M. O'Kane and R. Nettle

What is Hindering the Adoption of New Annual Pasture Legumes? Extension Requirements to Over Come these Barriers

N. Hogg and J.K. Davis

Determinants of Adoption Decisions: The Case of Organic Farming (OF) in Bangladesh

M.A. Sarker, Y. Itohara and M. Hoque

Derived Attitudinal Farmer Segments: A Method for Understanding and Working with the Diversity of Australian Dairy Farmers

W. Waters, D. Thomson and R. Nettle

Farmer Risk Perceptions and Practice: Utilising Notions of Risk for Extension in Project 3030

Michael O'Kane, Barbara King and Greg O'Brien

Is eLearning a Viable Option to Face-to-Face Workshops for Generating and Sharing Information within the New Zealand Sheep and Beef Industry

Margaret Brown and Denise Bewsell

Involvement and Decision Making On-Farm: The Use of Wintering Feedpads and Nitrogen Inhibitors on Dairy Farms in New Zealand

Denise Bewsell and Margaret Brown

Evaluating Capacity Building Methosd to Strengthen Livestock Extension Outcomes in Laos

Viengxay Photakoun, Joanne Millar and Digby Race

The Known Unknowns of Climate Change: Adaptation in the Southern Agricultural Region of Western Australia

David M. Gray

"Productive Meeting Techniques": How a Group of People Can Engage in High-Quality Dialogue and Reach Wise Decisions without Talking to Each Other

Ian C. Plowman

Sustainable Land Management through Local Government: Improving Integration of NRM into Land Use Planning - The SEAVROC PLUM Case

Renee Manning, Peter Wright and Juana Roe

Using Farmer's Information Seeking Behavior to Inform the Design of Extension

Megan Hill

Does the Hard Copy Newsletter Still Have a Place in Today's Electronic Based Information Systems?

V.L. Stone and K.L. Devenish

Creating Change Around "Sticky Beaking" and Networking

T. Makin, J. Lawes, P. Wearne and M. Weise

Getting Cold and Prickly on Saltland Extension

Justin Hardy, Arjen Ryder and Andrew Bathgate

Learning from Public Private Partnerships in Extension - Case Studies of Joint Initiatives with Agribusiness

John Blake and Greg Shea

Western Australian Service to Aboriginal Pastoralists

Kay Bodman

Farmers of the Future: Responsive, Adaptable and Profitable

Janet Sloan and Michele Ryan

Graduate Certificate in Rural Extension and Community Development

Simon Proust and Paul Brockwell

PestFax and PestFacts - Newsletters Successfully Facilitating Interactive Communication on Invertebrate Pest and Disease Control in Broadscale Crops and Pastures in Southern Austraila

Peter Mangano, Judy Bellati, Ken Henry, Paul Umina and Dustin Severtson

From Boring Bug Lectures to Interactive Invertebrate Learning - Using Audience Participation Software to 'Actively' Transform Grains Industry Training

Judy Bellati, Ken Henry, Paul Umina, Kate Charleston, Peter Mangano, Hugh Brier, Dustin Severtson and Austin McLennan

Remote Microscope Diagnostics: Improvind Australia's Diagnostic Capacity and Biosecurity

M.P. Thompson, A. Carmichael, S. Shattuck, G. Kong, D. Peck and J. La Salle

Peer Group Mentors Contribute to Diversified, Sustainable and Innovative Farming Communities

David Curry and Rowan Reid

The Farmers and the Funders. A Case Study of the Upper Coblinine Catchment Demonstration Initiative

Ella Maesepp and Jill Richardson

Wine, Forests and Smoke: Land Users Living in Harmony

Diana Fisher, Kristen Kennison and Glynn Ward

Volume 5, issue 01

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Using Discourse Analysis to Improve Extension Practice

Aysha Fleming and Frank Vanclay

Encounters with Knowledge Entrepreneurs and 'Sticky' Knowledge Transfer: Case Study Project 3030

B.J. King, M.S. Paine, R. Beilin and M.P. O'Kane

Working on a New Frontier: Exploring the Methodological Challenges of Addressing Complex Problems

Sean Kenny and Geoff Drysdale

Identifying and Utilising a Farmer Typology for Targeted Practice Change Programs: A Case Study of Changing Water Supply in the Wimmera Mallee

Imogen Schwarz, McRae-Williams Pam and Danielle Park

Establishing Learning Alliances between Extension Organisations: Key Learnings from Laos

Anne Stelling, Joanne Millar, Phonepaseuth Phengsavanh and Werner Stur

Understanding Farmers' Pesticide Use in Jharkhand India

J.L. Bond, S.K. Kriesemer, J.E. Emborg and M.L. Chadha

Understanding the Benefits Sought from Grapevine Nutrition Management by Australian Wine Grape Growers

Megan Hill, Ben Rowbottom and Geoff Kaine

A Model to Achieve Sustainable Improvement and Innovation in Organisations, Industries, Regions and Communities

Richard Clark, Jane Gray, Garry Griffith, Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, Nkhanedzeni Nengovhela, Cynthia Mulholland and Janice Timms

Synergies of Public-Private Grower-Based Research in the Western Australian Grains Industry

Jeff Russell

Art or Science? Heuristic versus Data Driven Grazing Management on Dairy Farms

C. Eastwood and S. Kenny

Cadiz and Casbah Pastures in Western Australia: Breeders' Expectation, Farmers' Evaluation and Achieved Adoption

Kawsar P. Salam, Roy Murray-Prior, David Bowran and Moin U. Salam

Assessing Changes in Social Capacity: Experience with the 'Most Significant Change' Technique

Richard Moore and Leonie Offer

An Extension Officer's Perspective on Practice Change

Manjala, Tafadzwa (Tafi)

Transition of Public Extension to the Private Sector: A Case Study

Scott McDonald, Alex Goudy and Vincent Versace

Blogs about Bugs: Embracing Web 2.0 to Communicate with Grains Industry Clients about Integrated Pest Management Issues

Kate Charleston, Melina Miles and Austin McLennan

Benchmarking as an Extension Tool: Instant Gratification versus 20:20 Hindsight

Maxine Schache and Tony Adams

Different Segments of the Western Australian Farming Community Prefer Different Extension Tools when Searching for Cropping Information from the Department of Agriculture and Food

Cindy Parsons

Adapting Extension Approaches to Cultural Environments in South East Asia: Experiences from Laos and Indonesia

Joanne Millar

Carpet Pythons and Biodiversity Action Planning: Using an Icon Species to Deliver Extension in an Agricultural and Environmental Context

Janice Mentiplay-Smith

Using Scenarios to Build a Resilient Community: Lessons Learnt in Sunraysia

Jenny Treeby, Kirsten Henderson, Pam Strange, Caroline Welsh and Stuart Putland

Using Supply Chain Management Principles to Build Relationships with Clients

A. McCafferty, A. Fitzgerald and B. Verbeek

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Enable Practice Chang in Australian Agriculture

John James

Lessons from Applying the Principles of Salinity Investment Framework at a Local Level in Catchment and Farm Planning

Ronald Master and Dave Broadhurst

Community Consultation in the Setting of Resource Condition Targets for Dryland Salinity - Did it Work?

Rebecca Heath, Susie Murphy White and Jamie Bowyer

Visual Aids to Increase the Awareness of Condition Scoring of Sheep - A Model Approach

Jonathan England

The 'Profitable Perennials' Project: A Case Study

R. Master, J. Bowyer and R. Heath

Evaluation - Chasing Industry Impact

Gerry Roberts, Peter Hanrahan and Geoff Knights

CowTime's 'Maximum Milk Out Times' was a Good Marriage of Research and Practice Change

Darold Klindworth and Diana Carr

Industry Development: Involving the Whole Industry in Practice Change

Danielle England and Susie Murphy White

Innovative Approaches to Service Delivery to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Farmers in Victoria

Malwinder Pandher, Rabi Maskey and Terry Batey

Towards a Common Goal: Combining an Industry Development Extension Package with a Sub Catchment NRM Approach

Jane Hamilton, Chris Chilcott and Colin Paton