A study described part-time and small farmers (PT/SF) on the basis of their demographic characteristics and determined their farm management educational needs. Findings revealed that the majority of the PT/SF were males who operated farms of 50-150 acres for 11 or more years, were 35-44 years of age, and were high school graduates who principally produced crops. The four areas of farm management education needed by PT/SF were farm tax management, marketing farm products, determining farm insurance needs, and farm recordkeeping. Findings regarding a third objective--to determine the relationship between the selected demographic charcteristics and the computed farm management educational needs of PT/SF--revealed a range of negligible to substantial relationships. The moderate to substantial positive relationships existed between type of principal farm enterprise and the categories of computed educational needs. The other negligible to low relationships indicated that farm management educational programs developed on the basis of the identified needed competencies would be equally suitable for PT/SF irrespective of their characteristics. Findings with respect to a fourth objective--to determine if the farm management educational needs of PT/SF in predominantly commercial counties were significantly different from that of PT/SF in predominantly noncommercial counties--revealed no significant differences. (YLB)