1. VIRTUAL FIELD DAY IMPROVES ACCESS TO POULTRY EDUCATION
B.J. Burbaugh & E. M. Toro
Visit the Pastured‐Raised Poultry Virtual Field Day at
http://vfd.ifas.ufl.edu/pastured_poultry/
OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW CONTENT
CONTENT
According to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, The website addresses broiler and layer
56% of Florida farms have internet production in pasture based systems. Four
access. Additionally, results from advisory videos provide an introduction to pasture‐
committee meetings indicate that the based production, directions on starting the
internet is an underutilized delivery method birds and an overview of production
for educational information for small and systems. Seven narrated PowerPoint
beginning farmers. These findings coupled presentations provide in‐depth instruction
with the fact that an educational field day on nutrition, maximizing foraging behavior
might not be particularly convenient and regulations. Additionally, links are
geographically to a farmer who needed it or provided to peer‐reviewed Extension
because it took time away from actual publications for a more comprehensive
farming operations led to the development overview of topics covered in the videos and
of a poultry production virtual field day. This PowerPoint presentations.
internet accessible field day was developed
to provide growers with the opportunity to
access the information usually provided at a RESULTS
RESULTS
field‐day. As a result of this effort, Extension clientele
now have a convenient way to virtually
attend educational events that meets their
time schedule. According to tracking
software the site has been accessed 80,257
times and the PowerPoint presentations
have been downloaded over 20,020 times
since December 2009.
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