Perspectives on USDA recommendation for staff members to refer to "climate change" as "weather extremes" and "climate change adaption" to "resilience to weather extremes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11400
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4 pages., Online via website., Results of a national survey among U.S. adults indicated: "A majority of Americans are skeptical of the impact that industry funding has on scientific research and on the recommendations made by practitioners ... The public is somewhat more positive - though still ambivalent - about the effects of government funding on research and practitioner recommendations."
Online from publication 8 pages., Article highlights findings of a Farm Futures post-election survey among U.S. farmers. They show that nearly 90 percent of farmers believe taxes will go up under the Biden administration, 71% believe WOTUS will be overturned, and 22% believe markets will stabilize with a new trade strategy. "And four of every five farmers believe there will be less government ad hoc funds going to agriculture."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11393
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15 pages., Online research report., Reports findings of a survey of 3,627 U.S. adults, October 1-13, 2019. Democrats mostly agreed the federal government should do more on climate, while Republicans differed by ideology, age and gender
