8pgs, The agribusiness sector includes a diverse group of interests - crop producers, livestock and meat producers, poultry and egg companies, dairy farmers, timber producers, tobacco companies and food manufacturers and stores. The industry has new-found relevance going into 2019 as the trade war between China and the United States continues to rage leaving many in the business, especially soybean farmers, hurting.
The industry's giving reached its peak in the 2016 presidential cycle spending more than $118 million. The number fell in 2018 to more than $92 million, but was good for the third-highest spending cycle, and highest for a midterm, the industry has had.
Egerstrom, Lee (author / St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1987-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07441
Notes:
Contributed to ACDC by Mary Thompson, Farm Foundation, Oak Brook, Illinois, in August, 2016., "A report to members of the Newspaper Farm Editors of America on the changing role and work of agricultural journalists. This study was launched by action of the membership at the annual Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. in April 1986. A preliminary draft was submitted to the Fall Conference meeting at Indianapolis in October." 98 pages., Discusses issues and changes influencing agricultural journalism within agriculture, at newspapers and in the general economy. Includes agriculture-related topics being covered in modern agricultural journalism at newspapers
