The Farmer Reports On: What Things Have Made It Hardest to Get Along on the Farm? What Things Have Helped Most Toward Getting Along on the Farm?

Introduction: The major objective of this study has been to help determine how farmers have evaluated the problems and the attempted solutions with which they have been confronted in the past few years. How importantly have the activities of the Department of Agriculture loomed in their thinking? How favorably? What aspects of these activities are regarded most negatively? Which have widest general acceptance? What group differences are found among farmers relative to these questions? Two sections make up the report: the first deals with the factors mentioned by farmers as having made it hardest for them to get along on their farms in the last few years; the second discusses farmers’ views on what things have helped them most to get along.