Agriculture in the Community
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Date
2019-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
With two audiences in Clermont County and Greene County, urban and rural, it is important to address the needs that are provided by agriculture and the community and how they work together to provide the necessary resources for everyday life. Clermont and Greene counties have a diverse audience that attends the county fair: rural, urban and suburban. To educate the audience, posters (about Ag in the Community) were created with facts from USDA agriculture statistics, county statistics, and various commodity organizations to educate the public on agriculture, natural resources, and community development. Each poster has a QR code or barcode, which can be scanned with a smart device linked to an online blog page for data collection. The target audiences were the public and exhibitors who attended the Clermont County fairs in 2015 through 2018 and the Greene County fair in 2018.
Description
With two faces in Clermont and Greene counties, urban and rural, it is important to address the needs that are provided by agriculture and the community and how they work together to provide the necessary resources for everyday life. Clermont and Greene counties have a diverse audience who attends the county fair: rural, urban and suburban. To educate the audience, posters (Ag in the Community) were created with facts from United States Department of Agriculture statistics, county statistics and various commodity organizations to educate the public on agriculture, natural resources, and community development. Each poster has a QR code or barcode, which may be scanned with a smart device linked to an online blog page for data collection. The audience targeted were the public and exhibitors who attended the Clermont County fairs in 2015 through 2018 and additionally in Greene County in 2018. The results included approximately 400-viewed QR codes at each of the fairs represented. Fair attendance was approximately 65,000 people who could have viewed the educational materials, but not viewed through the QR code. Posters were color printed on 11"x17" paper and laminated before displayed around the fairgrounds at designated locations. The results of the Ag in the Community posters were twofold: 1) educate the public on types of agriculture and community development items in Clermont and Greene counties; and 2) gather contact data for our newsletters and blog pages in conjunction to find out if a participant knows about Extension or has ever used Extension's services. Results indicate that audiences in the county were interested in learning more about agriculture and how it impacts them on a daily basis.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Trevor Corboy, OSU Extension educator, agriculture and natural resources, Greene County, corboy.3@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Nanette "Gigi" Neal, OSU Extension agriculture and natural resources educator, Clermont County
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Trevor Corboy, OSU Extension educator, agriculture and natural resources, Greene County, corboy.3@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Nanette "Gigi" Neal, OSU Extension agriculture and natural resources educator, Clermont County
Keywords
know your community, Extension education, Agriculture in the Community
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 7 (2019).