USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12078
Notes:
2 pgs., Online from the publisher. 2 pages., Obituary involving a former farm broadcaster who served as NAFB president in 1984 and as NAFB Historian for nine years.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27816
Notes:
Short biographies from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Subjects include: Norman J. Coleman, Coleman's Rural World -- H.W. Collingwood, Rural New Yorker -- Pietro de Crescenzi, an Italian agricultural writer (1230-1320) -- Samuel Hartlib, Great Britain (1600-??) -- Gervase Markham, Great Britain (1568-1637) -- Sir John Sinclair, Scotland (1754-1835) -- John Stuart Skinner, American Farmer -- Jethro Tull, Great Britain (1674-??) -- Thomas Tusser, Great Britain (1524-1580) -- Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow -- Arthur Young, Great Britain (1741-1820)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D11543
Notes:
2 pages., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Announcement of change in leadership of one of the nation's pioneer agricultural periodicals/media firms.
Online from publication. 2 pages., Features agricultural broadcaster Gale Cunningham, president-elect of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB), and his wife Beth at the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11964
Notes:
Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 3 pages., Report of Orion Samuelson's decision to retire December 31 from WGN, Chicago, Illinois, with some 60 years of farm reporting experience and leadership.
1 page., Online from March 6, 2020, issue of the periodical., Tribute to a long-time agricultural journalist, written by an editorial associate at the Delta Farm Press magazine.
Perdue, Sonny (author / Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Proclamation
Publication Date:
2020-12
Published:
USA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12034
Notes:
Via online. 1 page., A proclamation by USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue honoring agricultural broadcaster Orion Samuelson at the occasion of his retirement after a 60-year career at WGN Radio applying journalistic integrity, persistence, and support for American farmers.
