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These digital collections include fact sheets and publications from Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics faculty and graduate students published in an occasional series of fact sheets, supplemented by other outreach-oriented materials based upon issues of particular priority to Colorado and research interest of the faculty.

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    An overview of Coloradans' perceptions of agriculture
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-02) Thilmany, Dawn, author; Chriestenson, Chad, author; Martin, Michael, author; Sullins, Martha, author; Jablonski, Becca, author; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, publisher
    Starting in 1996, the Colorado Department of Agriculture identified the need to better understand how: a) the citizens of Colorado viewed the agricultural industry as a whole; b) the public perceives emerging policies meant to support or influence the role of agriculture in Colorado; and c) and how the Department's own programs were valued. In 2016, as they have every five years since 1996, they partnered with Colorado State University to frame a survey that would evaluate the public's attitudes about such issues as food prices, food safety, pesticide use, environmental practices, wildlife and agriculture, animal welfare, land use, population growth and agricultural land preservation, among other things. This report has a particular focus on how a respondent's history and depth of experience in agriculture may influence their opinions on several key issues.
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    Coloradans' perceptions about land and water resources for agriculture
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-02) Sullins, Martha, author; Thilmany, Dawn, author; Chriestenson, Chad, author; Martin, Michael, author; Jablonski, Becca, author; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, publisher
    This survey on Colorado Attitudes about Food and Agriculture highlights several key findings with respect to Coloradans' perceptions about and priorities for agricultural land and water use.
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    Perception of trust in sources of information on agriculture and food issues
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017-03) Martin, Michael, author; Chriestenson, Chad, author; Thilmany, Dawn, author; Jablonski, Becca, author; Sullins, Martha, author; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, publisher
    This factsheet presents some important takeaways from the 2016 Coloradan's Attitudes about Agriculture and Food survey. Colorado consumers have trust in the information from a variety of groups for infor-mation on both agriculture and food quality, nutrition, and safety issues. These groups include university and research organizations, Colorado Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, and farmers and ranchers. When looking at Coloradan's opinions on particular agricultural practices, their levels of trust for information generally decreased as their approval for certain agricultural practices decreased. The only exception was the level of trust in information from environmental organizations on both agricultural and food issues from people who did not approve of particular agricultural practices. This might indicate that environmental organizations are appealing to different type of person in regards to their agricultural beliefs. This finding suggests that outreach and market specialists might want to collaborate with a variety of different groups in order to maximize the effectiveness of their message, especially if the message centers on potentially controversial agricultural topic. Trust for information from social media was lowest for both agricultural and food quality, nutrition, and safety issues. Finally, consumers did not indicate a significant difference overall between their trust on agriculture and food quality, nutrition, and safety issues for each source of information.