Using Advanced Computer Technologies to Increase Extension Effectiveness
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Recent advances in microcomputerbased products provide Extension with the opportunity to revise and to update historic delivery systems. Decision support systems furnish Extension professionals, consultants, allied industries, and producers with a new resource to solve problems. Use of relational databases on the farm, updated from external databases, provides users with a new option for problem solving. Hypertext and authoring languages create new ways to manage more effectively the information available through the database. Decision support systems, using an on-farm database, can be developed to address and to evaluate more specific management problems. Use of tools that can directly access and manipulate producers’ external and internal data increases the effectiveness of the Extension professional. (
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