Extension farm management and policy specialists have traditionally conducted educational programs to inform agricultural producers of government farm programs and to help them determine if they should participate in those programs.These decisions have become increasingly complex because of: (1) the requirement that producers bid for the opportunity to participate in some programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the Milk Production Termination Program (MPTP) and (2) the option of choosing a level of participation in many commodity programs-that is, due to provisions like the 0/92 and 50/92 options of some commodity programs, the participation decision is no longer a simple yes-no choice. SummaryBecause government program participation decisions have become increasingly complex, Extension economists have initiated the development of decision aids.The guidelines presented here provide an approach for developing decision aids that should result in procedures with technical accuracy and clear presentation.
Thomas O. Knight (Wed,) studied this question.