Ethics and Agricultural Education: Determining Needs

The primary purpose of this study was to determine which areas of ethical agricultural issues are perceived by secondary teachers to be most critical to the general consuming public and, therefore, students of agriculture. This study was limited to ten western states. As consumers, the teachers involved in this study were very interested in the areas of ethical agricultural issues regarding land use and water sources. They targeted Right to Farm-conversion of agricultural land to urban development; Water rights control; and Public land used for agricultural purposes. When ranking relevance to their curriculum teachers substituted Chemical water pollution for Public land used for agricultural purposes.