Setzen Betriebsleiterinnen/Betriebsleiter eher Ratschläge der Landwirtskolleginnen/-kollegen oder die der WissenschaftlerInnen um, um die Herdengesundheit zu verbessern?

Summary

By the use of a novel coaching program some groups of farmers get together regularly with professionals to discuss critical herd health problems so that both, farmers and
professionals, can discuss those problems in a well mapped-out way, give suggestions for the improvement of herd health and the experts can add their academic knowledge and expertise. This analysis focuses on the data of 2012. On
closer examination of the data it stands out that professionals gave advice more than two times as much than farmers. The intention of implementing these suggestions of
only professionals was on average nine times higher than the intention to realize suggestions made only by farmers. Until the end of the year farm managers realized only one third of all the advice given although they had planned to put into practice almost half of all suggestions. And yet one-third of the advice of only professionals was realized. To get to the point it seems to be worthwhile to have professionals join these meetings because their advice is more often accepted by farmers and put into practice.