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    Start Over Collection Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) Format Commentary Subject Term interest groups Subject Term politics

    1. A lesson for us from the Pawnee and Sioux people

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Looker, Dan (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2000-05
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26423
    Journal Title:
    Successful Farming
    Journal Title Details:
    98(7) : 15
    Notes:
    "Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.

    4. Expect more of the same from Time and others

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Henderson, Greg (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-09-03
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29370
    Journal Title:
    Drovers
    Notes:
    Via online. 1 page., Author notes how some journalists are now given the freedom to produce stories with the angles they prefer rather than provide objective and balanced reporting.

    5. Falling into the trap of partisanship will only deepen the divide between farmers and city dwellers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dyck, Toban (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-11-04
    Published:
    Canada: Financial Post, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11104
    Journal Title:
    Financial Post
    Notes:
    Via online. 4 pages., "Our industry won't be the best it can be if we act like bullies, abandon decorum and vent against our leaders."

    6. Negative attack ads enter ag policy arena

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Truitt, Gary (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2008-10-22
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28382
    Journal Title:
    Farm World
    Journal Title Details:
    54(38) : 4
    Notes:
    Speaker points to "reporters and editors with mainstream publications creating a 'chasm' between rural dwellers and urbanites."

    7. Partisanship, piffle and prattle

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Guebert, Alan (author / Farm and Food File)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-10-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11033
    Journal Title:
    Illinois Agri News
    Journal Title Details:
    42(32) : C6
    Notes:
    Commentary on "self-financed, self-serving 'science'" used by agricultural interests involving a variety of food, agriculture, and environmental issues.

    8. Power, policy, politics, and fat

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hollingsworth, Pierce (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2003-06
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19138
    Journal Title:
    Food Technology
    Journal Title Details:
    57(6) : 18
    Notes:
    Concerns the growing public debate over obesity. Includes "time-tested elements" of strategies the commentator expects trial lawyers to use in efforts to affix blame on the food industry.

    10. The Washington, D.C. siege has Western roots and consequences

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Segerstrom, Carl (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2021-01-08
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12068
    Journal Title:
    High Country News
    Notes:
    Online from publication. 16 pages., "History and the growing power of right-wing extremism point to a volatile future for the West during the Biden presidency."