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    1. "Every farmer should be awakened:" Liberty Hyde Bailey's vision of agricultural extension work

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Peters, Scott J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24379
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    80(2) : 190-219
    Notes:
    Analysis of this agricultural leader's views suggests Bailey sought "not to develop a more efficient, productive, and profitable agriculture, but to advance the larger cultural ideals of a 'self-sustaining' agriculture and personal happiness."

    4. "The more they listen, the more they buy": radio and the modernizing of rural America, 1930-1939

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Craig, Steve (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24378
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    80(1) : 1-16
    Notes:
    Emphasizes the impact of entertainment programming and advertising on the buying behavior of rural listeners.

    5. Expertise, book farming and government agriculture: the origins of agricultural seed certification in the United States

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Cooke, Kathy J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23367
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    76(3) : 524-545
    Notes:
    Article includes observations about the deskilling and disempowerment of farmers.

    6. Information exchange and the making of the colonial farm: agricultural periodicals in the late nineteenth-century New Zealand

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wood, Vaughan (author) and Pawson, eric (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    New Zealand
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28652
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    82(3) : 337-365

    10. The “age of agricultural ignorance”: trends and concerns for agriculture knee-deep into the twenty-first century

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Evans, Sterling (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    JSTOR
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10650
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    93(1): 4-34
    Notes:
    32 pages., via online journal., The phrase in the title is not mine. I am borrowing it here from syndicated columnist and cowboy poet Baxter Black, who borrowed the title of one of his own columns “Growth of Agricultural Ignorance” from the editor of the Delmarva Farmer (a weekly agricultural publication serving the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia region). In many ways I agree with the term, and believe it is accurate in part to describe American society in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Thus, I would like to take this opportunity to discuss some trends in American agriculture, and for that matter, agricultural history, and some concerns that I have about them. Not all the trends are bad, of course, and perhaps in some ways, at least, American society is less agriculturally ignorant than Black and others suggest.