Whereas conventional farmers look to synthetic fertilizers to provide their plants with specific nutrients (N-P-K), organic farmers focus on nourishing the living interactions in the soil, water, air, and even wider wildlife and insect communities to create strong, healthy plants.
In Indonesia, where farmers focus on lucrative crops such as rubber and oil palm, the lack of forest goods influences perceptions of old agroforests.
Many of them also are subsistence rice farmers, focused on planting crops between May and July when the monsoon rains arrive and harvesting in December, tasks that take time away from producing silk.
Historically, support for dairy farmers focused on milk price but has been declining in real terms for decades.
Our empirical evidence comes from two nation-wide postal questionnaire data sets, both containing samples from three subgroups: conventional farmers focusing solely on primary agricultural production, diversified farmers who also had other business besides agricultural production, and rural non-agricultural small-scale businesses.
In contrast, the dominant view of veterinarians was that farmers focused mainly on production and financial performance and least on the value of teamwork.
Farmers focusing on AWHH were divided between those focusing on an expected correlation between increases in AWHH and financial performance and those focusing on a feeling of increased subjective well-being from being around healthy cows.
The case definition was designed to capture disease patterns commonly observed and reported by farmers, focusing on the fact that affected flocks always exhibit cases of sudden-death, and that the disease was clearly contagious and spread between households.
Farmers focused on the potential of GM crop varieties to increase overall crop production, and thus on its potential to provide improved short term food security, rather than on any potential health risks for themselves or the local ecosystem.
Veterinarians believed that farmers' primary focus was on production and profit, however, farmers' valued teamwork and animal welfare more.
