The unique roles of on-farm research in assisting with the development of sustainable a riculture are outlined in this article. These roles involve (11 distihne credible knowledge from the ~~- prktices and experiences of exi&ng commercial sustainable farmers and 12) testing ~ossible im~roved sustainable ~ractices/enterprises under's wide;;ariety of pioduction circumstances and in a more realistic whole-farm environment than is feasible with tests limited to experiment station field plots. Based on a review of the on-farm sustainable agriculture research undertaken over the past 15 years in the U.S., four critical methodological issues facing the next generation of on-farm sustainable agriculture researchers are identified and explored.
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Donald C. Taylor (1991) studied this question.