Developing new educational resources related to pasture- and forage-crop systems Educators at agricultural academic institutions and those involved in professional degree programs need to continue to develop and broaden their pedagogic efforts: such efforts will help farmers face the variety of challenges associated with the design and implementation of the (forage) agroecosystems of the future. The range of disciplines taught should be expanded to include, notably, ecology and the environmental sciences. Additionally, educational efforts should promote the ability to adapt to and diagnose situations and encourage critical thinking and creativity, particularly using internships and hands-on experiences. In this context, the farms run by agricultural educational institutions can be extremely helpful. It is also important to teach farmers to use new diagnostic approaches (e.g., MCDA) and tools that will allow them to exploit sources of knowledge and information (e.g., e-learning, MOOCs, and—soon—big data). Such educational efforts play an essential role in permitting farmers to identify the information that will be of the greatest use to them.