The purpose of the workshop was to evaluate efforts by the Cooperative Extension Service to provide educational services to the small farmer (one who markets less than $20,000 worth of products a year), to exchange ideas on small farm management, and to recommend program directions for the future. Experts in various farm management areas participated; the program included the following talks and panel discussions: Background, Effort, and Problems Related to Extension's Program for Small Farmers; Small Farm Programs in the Southern United States; Serving Farmers Through General Ongoing Extension Programs in Kentucky, Alabama, and Louisiana; How Small Farmers Get Information and Make Decisions; Information and Help Available at the Southern Rural Development Center; Needs and Aspirations of People on Small Farms; How to Determine Goals, Values, and Aspirations of Small Farm Families; Training Paraprofessionals in North Carolina; Training Small Farm Family Educational Assistants; Economically Oriented Tools or Concepts That Can Be Used With Limited Resource Farmers; The Role of Paraprofessionals Working With Limited Resource Farmers; Small Farm Marketing Problems; Marketing Feeder Pigs and Feeder Calves by Limited Resource Farmers; Direct Marketing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables; and Ideas for Development Programs with Small Farmers. (AN)