Recognising structural changes in agriculture and their impacts that both agricultural policy and socioeconomic changes can cause is professionally challenging, and a particular challenge is to bring these »dynamic« contents closer to studnts. The paper focuses on selected key changes in Slovenian agriculture (the concept of farm, changes in agricultural use and production, number and size of agricultural holdings, selected characteristics of farmers). If decades ago the focus was on the uncompetitiveness of Slovenian agriculture or on changing the cultural landscape due to the abandonment of production and overgrowth, today we are witnessing in many places the formation of an intensive agricultural landscape, modernization and industrialization of agricultural production, the lack of the most fertile agricultural land, and conflicts of interest between numerous activities competing for limited land. As teachers, you certainly wonder what information about farms makes sense to convey to students so that they understand the complexity of the agricultural sector and the agricultural landscape. In the article, some contents are further clarified or supported by quotations from the farmers themselves, and we also provide guidelines (topics, data sources at the local level) for independent learning.
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