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2. A Massey-Harris Tractor For Your Farm
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Catalog
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: The Massey-Harris Company
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: MS 1-31; Folder: MS.12.02 Document Number: D02624
- Notes:
- 47p, John Harvey Collection
3. A day in rural Australia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dennis, Mark (author) and Ingles, Lyn (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- n.d.
- Published:
- Australia: Rural Press Limited, North Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06387
- Notes:
- The pictorial world of rural Australia. "This book is about the sights of rural Australia: it presents a chronicle of what goes on from the start to end of a typical day beyond the boundaries of the cities where most Australians now live."
4. Assessment of fish farming practices, development and constraints among fish farmers in Ibi local government area, Taraba State, Nigeria
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ogunremi, J. B. (author), Igbani, F. (author), Onimisi, M. M. (author), and Shetur, C. Y. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-04-30
- Published:
- Nigeria: Agricultural Society of Nigeria
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12761
- Journal Title:
- Nigerian Agricultural Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 53, N.1
- Notes:
- 7 pages, This study was carried out to determine the fish farming practices, development and constraints among fish farmers in Ibi Local Government Area (LGA), Taraba State, Nigeria. A sampling frame was drawn from the list of 740 fish farmers registered with the Department of Fisheries and Forestry, Ibi LGA, Taraba State. A multistage stratified design was used for selecting the respondents for the study. The first stage involved stratification of the Local Government into Districts (Sarkin Kudu, Dampar and Ibi). The second stage was selection based on the prevalence of fish farmers in the districts. The third stage involved random selection of 90, 69 and 63 (30%) fish farmers from each district to obtain a sample size of 222 respondents. Data from the study were collected through structured questionnaire and scheduled interview administered to the respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency distribution and percentages) and inferential (non parametric test at coefficient of 0.116 and p-value of < 0.05) statistics. Results show that concrete tanks were mostly used by fish farmers (35.0%) and sourced fingerlings for stocking through personal hatchery (34.9%), practiced poly culture (58.90%) and monoculture techniques (56.50%). The culture system was predominantly intensive (90.0%), Clarias spp were cultured (68.9%) and fed on imported floating feed (72.0%). The major constraints to fish production are inadequate infrastructure, high cost of inputs, poor quality of fish seed and poor extension services on fish farming. The study recommends that the Government should grant import duty waiver on fish farming inputs and monitor the implementation so that the policy can benefit intending and existing fish farmers. Efforts should be intensified on different areas of fish farming development.
5. Booker's boondoggle
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Opinion
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13141
- Notes:
- 1 page
6. Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Behrendt, Gerlinde (author), Peter, Sarah (author), Sterly, Simone (author), and Häring, Anna Maria (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-22
- Published:
- USA: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12629
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 39
- Notes:
- 13 pages, An increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the German organic agri-food sector involves citizens through different community financing models. While such models provide alternative funding sources as well as marketing opportunities to SMEs, they allow private investors to combine their financial and ethical concerns by directly supporting the development of a more sustainable food system. Due to the low level of financial intermediation, community financing is characterized by close relations between investors and investees. Against this background, we apply the proximity concept from economic geography to explore spatial and relational aspects of community financing in the German organic agri-food sector. Based on a qualitative multiple case study approach, we find that the relevance of proximity is twofold. While different forms of proximity between SMEs and their potential investors are key success factors, proximity is also considered as one desired outcome of community financing. Furthermore, our results reveal that the extent to which SMEs rely on particular proximity dimensions distinguishes two different approaches to community financing.
7. Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health and behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cooke, Andrew (author), Mullan, Siobhan (author), Morten, Charlie (author), Hockenhull, Joanna (author), Le-Grice, Phil (author), Le Cocq, Kate (author), Lee, Michael R. F. (author), Cardenas, Laura M. (author), and Rivero, M. Jordana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-06-29
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12951
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- V.161, Iss.3
- Notes:
- 14 pages, Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of an animal’s life and the interactions between animals. Consequently, welfare must be measured across a variety of factors that consider aspects such as health, behaviour and mental state. Decisions regarding housing and grazing are central to farm management. In this study, two beef cattle systems and their herds were compared from weaning to slaughter across numerous indicators. One herd (‘HH’) were continuously housed, the other (‘HG’) were housed only during winter. Inspections of animals were conducted to assess body condition, cleanliness, diarrhoea, hairlessness, nasal discharge and ocular discharge. Hair and nasal mucus samples were taken for quantification of cortisol and serotonin. Qualitative behaviour assessments (QBA) were also conducted and performance monitored. Physical health indicators were similar between herds with the exception of nasal discharge which was more prevalent in HH (P < 0.001). During winter, QBA yielded differences between herds over PC1 (arousal) (P = 0.032), but not PC2 (mood) (P = 0.139). Through summer, there was a strong difference across both PC1 (P < 0.001) and PC2 (P = 0.002), with HG exhibiting more positive behaviour. A difference was found in hair cortisol levels, with the greatest concentrations observed in HG (P = 0.011), however such a pattern was not seen for nasal mucus cortisol or for serotonin. Overall, providing summer grazing (HG) appeared to afford welfare benefits to the cattle as shown with more positive QBA assessments, but also slightly better health indicators, notwithstanding the higher levels of cortisol in that group.
8. Content analysis of the agricultural news published in four Panamanian newspapers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gomez, Blanca Edith (author)
- Format:
- study summary
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Panama
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09889
- Notes:
- NCR-90 Collection, University of Wisconsin, 1 page.
9. Downstate Farmer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Newspaper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Linda and Roger Peach
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-M; Folder: V1.12.D.100 Document Number: D02516
- Journal Title Details:
- 1
- Notes:
- 12p, Volume One Number One Collection; John Harvey Collection
10. Drovers' past and future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Henderson, Greg (author)
- Format:
- Magazine article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13103
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Notes:
- 1 page