Researchers from the University of Vermont and their collaborators are collecting (anonymized) information about how health insurance policies and programs affect farmers and their farming operation. If you’d like to increase their sample size and help contribute to the development of policy recommendations and training materials, the survey can be found here. Additional information about the survey, part of a project called Health Insurance, Rural Economic Development and Agriculture, can be found here.

About 60 people took part in the clicker survey during the 2017 Oregon Dairy Farmers Association’s Annual Meeting (thank you!). If you’re curious about the results, read on.  (Note that not every person answered every question. Also, the duller demographic results are not shown here.)

With regard to who was in the room and their primary roles on or off the farm, we have these results:

Here we have preferences for learning new information:

For those of you who are interested to see what your fellow ODFA members are interested in learning more about, here are the topics surveyed: