Consumer Panel Insights

Consumer Panel Insights

Foodchat session 2/16/2010 Question 1: What information do you find useful when making food choices? Question 2: Where do you get info on food from? Do they believe it’s balanced info? Question 3: How do you see food commentators, eg M. Pollan & J. Safer Froer? Do you find them credible-why/why not? Question 4: How…

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Farm Efficiency Practices

AgChat session 2/9/2010 Question 1: What practices or management tools have you used to improve your on farm efficiencies in the last 10 years? Question 2: Which technologies have most impacted the way you do your job on your farm? Question 3: What are biggest challenges to maintaining the momentum of productivity increases in US…

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Animal Care and Welfare

AgChat session 2/2/2010 Question 1: Is negative media coverage about livestock production a serious threat to producing meat protein in the US? Question 2: What is about this coverage (RE:Q1) that bothers farmers the most? i.e. inaccuracy, not a fair representation, etc. Question 3: What is the one information resource consumers should understand/study/know of, re:…

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Ag Equipment and Technology

AgChat session 1/26/2010 Question 1: Guidance/autosteer has seen significant adoption in #agriculture, what’s been your experience? Any drawbacks? Question 2: What new planting/seeding specific technologies do you feel have made biggest impact on your #farm? Question 3: Row crop equipment seems to be getting bigger, larger, faster. Is this a good trend? Think it will…

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Food Myths and Legends

Foodchat session 1/19/2010 Question 1: What resources can help identify healthy foods? Question 2: What are some of the myths and legends about organic food? Question 3: How accurate are food healing myths/legends like chicken soup and ginger ale for a stomach ache? Question 4: How can we dispel the food myth to teens that…

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