Format: Commentary / Subject Term: farm journals

1. Magazine has role in Iowa history

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ahlers, Rebecca (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2013-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06155
Journal Title:: Wallaces Farmer
Journal Title Details:: : 17

2. Rhea+Kaiser: Print still rules the marketing mix for reaching farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Martin, Diane (author / President, Rhea + Kaiser)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2016-08-15
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: D07430
Notes:: Online via Agri Marketing Weekly. 2 pages.

3. Lincoln: a Prairie subscriber

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tourte, Don (author / Vice President, Penton Agriculture)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2016-12
Published:: USA: Penton Agriculture, St. Charles, Illinois.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07617
Journal Title:: Prairie Farmer
Journal Title Details:: 188(12) : 10
Notes:: Commentary in the 175th anniversary issue of Prairie Farmer.

4. Everything old is new again

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Spangler, holly (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2016-12
Published:: USA: Penton Agriculture, St. Charles, Illinois.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07628
Journal Title:: Prairie Farmer
Journal Title Details:: 188(12) : 22
Notes:: Commentary in the 175th anniversary issue of Prairie Farmer.

5. Prairie Farmer's "secret sauce"

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wilson, Mike (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2016-12
Published:: USA: Penton Agriculture, St. Charles, Illinois.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07630
Journal Title:: Prairie Farmer
Journal Title Details:: 188(12) : 24
Notes:: Commentary in the 175th anniversary issue of Prairie Farmer.

6. No, journalists aren't enemies of the people"

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gullickson, Gil (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2018-08-16
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10702
Journal Title:: Successful Farming
Notes:: 2 pages., Via online., An agricultural journalist's perspective on the notion that the press is the "enemy of the people."

7. Journalists not the enemy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lawton, Kurt (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2018-08-16
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10703
Journal Title:: Corn and Soybean Digest
Notes:: 2 pages., Via online., An agricultural journalist's perspective on the notion that the press is the "enemy of the people."

8. Not an enemy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Horstmeier, Greg (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2018-08-16
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10704
Journal Title:: Progressive Farmer
Notes:: 2 pages., Via online., An agricultural journalist's perspective on the notion that the press is the "enemy of the people."

9. The media is not the enemy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wilson, Mike (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2018-08-16
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10705
Journal Title:: Farm Futures
Notes:: 2 pages., Via online., An agricultural journalist's perspective on the notion that the press is the "enemy of the people."

10. Ethics column: protecting who from whom?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Horstmeier, Greg (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2019-07
Published:: USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network, LaGrange, GA.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10706
Journal Title:: AAEA ByLine
Notes:: 4 pages., Via online., "The chief ethical fear for the past 99 years of agricultural journalism has been that one of our number would cuddle up closer to advertisers than others of us, and reap unethical benefits of that. The chief charge of every Ethics Committee [of AAEA] has been to protect our collective readers from any hoodwinking that would come from such collusion. As I look toward that 100th year, I wonder who needs protecting from whom." Examines pressures on agricultural journalists in the wake of divided audience perspectives about the role of agricultural media in covering contentious political issues

11. What magazines do that is important to our society

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gifford, Claude W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1965-12-27
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10715
Notes:: Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, 2 pages., Author's thoughts as editorial director of Farm Journal magazine.

12. A blank piece of paper

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gifford, Claude W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1967
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10716
Notes:: Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, 2 pages., Author's thoughts as editorial director of Farm Journal magazine. 1 page draft.

13. Tribute to Carroll P. Streeter

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gifford, Claude W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1975
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10746
Notes:: Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 2 pages., Author's tribute at the passing of his former associate, Carroll P. Streeter, editor of Farm Journal magazine from 1955-1969.

14. Memories from Paul Weller

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Weller, Paul (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2020-07
Published:: USA: AAEA - The Agricultural Communicators Network, Lagrange, Georgia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11788
Journal Title:: AAEA ByLine
Notes:: Online from publisher. 1 page., Memories of a 32-year member of AAEA, including eight years as executive secretary-treasurer and recipient of the 2010 AAEA Meritorious Service Award.

15. The clearing house of agricultural knowledge

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Waters, Henry Jackson (author / President, Kansas State Agricultural College)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1917-03
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26743
Notes:: Inside front cover of Nelson Antrim Crawford, "Preparation for editorial work on farm papers," Kansas State Agricultural College Bulletin, 1(5). 1 page., Author describes the role and importance of the agricultural press. "We may wonder at times if we haven't too many agricultural papers, but we may as well ask ourselves if we haven't too many churches or too many schools, for the farm paper is a necessary part of the large program which these institutions are helping to carry out."

16. The passing of Leslie Watt

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Watt, Greg (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2008-02-07
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26982
Notes:: Via AgriMarketing web site. 1 page., Tribute at the passing of Leslie A Watt, retired president and CEO of Watt Publishing Company.

17. A visit with a friend is more precious than ever in a world of complex media

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kruse, Loren (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2008-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26998
Journal Title:: Successful Farming
Journal Title Details:: 106(3) : 5 (Mid-February)
Notes:: Traces the expansion in number of media options available during the past 30 years and expresses appreciation to readers for their readership of Successful Farming magazine in that competitive environment.

18. Journalistic duties made easier by openness of farm community

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dischinger, Matthew (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-07-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28345
Journal Title:: Southeast Farm Press
Notes:: Posted at http://www.southeastfarmpress.com, Via online issue. 1 page., Intern at this farm journal writes about his discovery that ag sources of information are understanding.

19. Preaching to the choir and the Google Nation

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Robinson, Elton (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-11-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28346
Journal Title:: Southeast Farm Press
Notes:: Via online issue. 1 page., Author discusses what one can find on the Web, using search engines to gather information about farming methods.

20. About Fred Myers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2008
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28487
Notes:: Via "For Ag Journalists" 4 pages.

21. Spin in the Queensland Country Life and the real news

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009
Published:: Australia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28821
Notes:: Via Agmates online. 3 pages., Author and follow-up commentators respond to criticism of the Queensland Country Life periodical by ABC Media Watch for "churning out press releases as if they were real journalism."

22. Rural Rip

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: ABC Television, Australia.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2008-10
Published:: Australia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28822
Notes:: Via "Media Watch" online. 5 pages., "Media Watch" commentator criticizes Queensland Country Life farm paper for "non-journalism" - printing news releases as if they were reported stories. Shows examples.

23. Leading journalist blasts Rural Press/Queensland Country Life for churnalism

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Simons, Margaret (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-01-02
Published:: Australia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28823
Notes:: Via Agmates blog. 3 pages.

24. Freedom of speech does not exist in rural Australia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-02-20
Published:: Australia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28845
Notes:: Via Agmates online. 3 pages., Author criticizes Queensland Country Life farm paper for "media manipulation and bullying."

25. The matter of farmer buying is up to the advertiser

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Campbell, W.G. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1921-11-15
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28853
Notes:: Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Special bulletin to advertisers, page 2.

26. Journalists' role under threat?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mate, Julie (author) and Guild of Agricultural Journalists, Great Britain.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-05-17
Published:: UK
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30596
Notes:: 4 pages.

27. The last column

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2010-09
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35769
Notes:: "The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages.

28. I wish you could have been there

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2010-04-29
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35774
Notes:: "The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggests that ag magazines must respond to the new reality calling for readers to be far better served and to charge accordingly. "The force driving magazines forward will be content rather than advertising."

29. An uncomfortable assessment

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-07-25
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35782
Notes:: "The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Examines problems facing the agricultural press and the publishers, editors and journalists working in it.

30. Looking upward and beyond

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-02-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35787
Notes:: "The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Author suggests to agricultural journalists that "what you have yet to discover out there to work with could prove to be a most rewarding time in your entire career." "What you have learned in ag journalism is also what you need to succeed 'out there' and - what you learn 'out there' may be highly useful in improving what you are doing now."

31. To web or not to web

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Stoneman, Don (author) and J-Source.ca - The Canadian Journalism Project
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2009-03-04
Published:: Canada
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36652
Notes:: 1 page., Cites example of how a print article in Better Farming attracted added audiences through presence on a website.

32. Advertiser urges farm paper optimism

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Titsworth, F.L. (author / Advertising Manager, A.J. Kirstin Company) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1928-08-10
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36804
Notes:: Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Special Bulletin No. 72. 2 pages.

33. On the marketing and promotion road

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Haller, Ted (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2011-09
Published:: USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37260
Journal Title:: NAFB Chats
Journal Title Details:: : 2-3
Notes:: 2 pages.

34. Comments by Farm Progress's President Lapin about the B to B (business to business) media sector

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lapin, Jeff (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2012-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00602
Notes:: B to B Media Business blog via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page.

35. In an amazing life, Craig mixed preaching and rural journalism, and never backed down

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cross, Al (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. 3 pages.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2011
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01047
Notes:: 3 pages,

36. "Progressive Farmer" an agri-business front

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Horn, Stephen P. (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York, New York.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2010-08
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01069
Notes:: 1 page.

37. A long and storied past

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Flint, Josh (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2013-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01491
Journal Title:: Prairie Farmer
Journal Title Details:: 185(5) : 12
Notes:: Observations at 89th anniversary of WLS Radio, which partnered with Prairie Farmer under the ownership of Burridge D. Butler.

38. Fewer farmers - fewer ag media?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Evans, Jim (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2014-03
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02321
Journal Title:: Agri Marketing
Journal Title Details:: 52(2) : 4
Notes:: Full version of an abbreviated published commentary. 1 page.

39. Mistakes? I've made a few: True confessions of a CCA Writer of the Year

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Villines, Chris (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2014-03
Published:: USA: Cooperative Communicators Association, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02342
Journal Title:: CCA Communique
Journal Title Details:: : 5-6

40. What farm families buy

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Field, Henry (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15408
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 12(2) : 97-99

41. The horse that talked

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Goode, Solon L. (author / President, American Farmer Company, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15428
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 12(5) : 418-419
Notes:: Tale of a dying race horse, Myth, whose lips began to move as his faithful friend, the jockey, and a vast crowd looked on: "Tell--the--world--to--ad--advertise--in--the--American--Farmer."

42. Farmers are not "Reubens:" advertisers who thus picture them make a mistake

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Slocum, James (author / Business Manager, The Gleaner)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15431
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 12(5) : 426, 429-430

43. Foreign language publications, their value to advertisers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-06
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15437
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 12(6) : 508

44. Selecting mediums

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-07
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15442
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 13(1) : 45-46

45. The kind of letters successful advertisers write to a farm paper

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1905-07
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15443
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 13(1) : 47

46. Is the farm paper a has been?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Southwick, F.A. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1906
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15484
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 14(1) : 61-70

47. Crumbs swept up with an advertising brush

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1906
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15485
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 14(1) : 82-85

48. Contents of some farm papers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Chamberlain, J. N. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1916-03-03
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: C15773
Journal Title:: Hoard's Dairyman
Journal Title Details:: 51(6): 244-245
Notes:: 2 p.

49. How one subscriber prizes and uses agricultural advertising

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Graham, Harry W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1906-05
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15848
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 14(5) : 486

50. Summer advertising

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Leith, S.E. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1906-06
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15850
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 14(6) : 554-555

51. The Country Gentleman

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Klinkenborg, Verlyn (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2003-05-18
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16251
Notes:: 1 p., New York Times

52. A decade of successful growth

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1908
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16318
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 18(3) : 302-303

53. A quarter century of Grit

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1908
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16319
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 18(3) : 312-313

54. Do farmers read the magazines?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lawrence, M.W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1908-12
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16364
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 20(2) : 133
Notes:: Publisher of the Ohio Farmer and Michigan Farmer cites responses from farm readers.

55. Parcels post, pro and con

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Meyer, George W. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1909-02
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16377
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 20(4) : 355-358

56. The papers "Yon Yonson" reads

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Boberg, Gunnar (author / Svenska Tribunen-Nyheter, Chicago)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1909-03
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16380
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 20(5) : 429

57. The credit system in advertising

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Johnson, M.M. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1910
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16418
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 21(9) : 67

58. The struggle for circulation

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wall, Garrett (author / Vice-president, Farmer's Voice, Chicago, Illinois)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1910-03
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16427
Journal Title:: Agricultural Advertising
Journal Title Details:: 21(11) : 389-390

59. The last word

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Barksdale, Bill (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1971
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20424
Journal Title:: Farm Quarterly
Journal Title Details:: 26(1) : 80
Notes:: In the 25th anniversary issue of Farm Quarterly magazine, Editor Bill Barksdale describes changes in agriculture and in the focus of the magazine.

60. New Farm Magazine

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1995
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20667
Notes:: 10 pages; individual commentaries

61. Sustainable farm publishing

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cramer, Craig (author), Shirley, Christopher (author), and Sorg-McManamon, Teri (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1995-09
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20674
Notes:: 1 pages

62. Re : Sustainable farm publishing

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Merrill, Margaret (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1995-09-04
Published:: SANET-MG Discussion Groupfrom Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20675
Notes:: 2 page

63. Unjust educational discrimination

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: White, Frank B. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1918
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22474
Notes:: Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 2 pages., Appeals to farm readers to oppose a postal rider to the revenue bill which would increase the cost of carrying second class mail material.

64. New burdens on farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: White, Frank B. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1918
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22475
Notes:: Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 2 pages., Opposes a bill for a postal zone system which he reports would discriminate against farmers.

65. Goodbye!

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: White, Frank B. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1920-12-30
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22487
Notes:: Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jul 1, 1920 - Jan1, 1921, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Bulletin No. 182, page 2, Note of farewell after White served for five-plus years as managing director of the Association.

66. I weep for my profession

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Guebert, Alan (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2003-04-11
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22544
Notes:: Published in "The Final Word" column of Food Routes Network, Millheim, Pennsylvania. Issue 44. 2 pages., Author expresses concern that farm magazines and newspapers in the U.S. are "as bland and featureless as a sun-scorched pasture: there's nothing there to chew on; no water, no food, no new ideas." Suggests they need to challenge the status quo and publicly discuss and debate new ideas.

67. I weep for my profession: part two

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Guebert, Alan (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2003-04-25
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22545
Notes:: Published in a column, "The Final Word," from Food Routes Network, Millheim, Pennsylvania. Issue 45. 2 pages., Author reports on consolidation of farm periodicals, with resulting cutbacks in editorial staffing and in local coverage. Describes financial pressures that lead to more use of free-lance writers that often write for ag publications and ag public relations agencies simultaneously. "But the divided loyalties often yield stories that resemble corporate press releases more than journalism." Cites an example from his experience as a free-lance writer.

68. Survey results

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Myers, Fred (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2001-10-08
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22547
Notes:: Memo. 2 pages., Offers historical perspectives and experiences that relate to his concern about the extent of advertiser pressure on editors of farm periodicals.

69. It's the reader, stupid

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Crummett, Dan (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2005-11
Published:: USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23219
Journal Title:: ByLine
Journal Title Details:: : 6-7
Notes:: Reports that focus group research among farm readers shows they want information that is not a commercial on the editorial pages they read. "Isn't it strange? The very credibility these folks crave is the first thing to disappear when publishers agree to relax their standards."

70. A poll discounted: writer does not have faith in that of Farm Journal

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Guest, William J. (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1936-10
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23566
Journal Title:: Hartford Courant
Journal Title Details:: : 10
Notes:: Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Letter to the editor doubts the accuracy of a poll announced in the Farm Journal magazine indicating that Governor Landon was gaining throughout the West. Reason: Farm Journal is owned by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., vice president of the Sun Oil Company. "The Pew family has been a heavy contributor to the Liberty League and Mr. Pew himself was shown to have contributed at least $2,000 to the Farmers Independence Council."

71. If I possessed the ultimate red pencil

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Crummett, Dan (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-06
Published:: USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24043
Journal Title:: ByLine
Journal Title Details:: : 16

72. What I found instead was a career

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Taylor, Marcia (author / President, American Agricultural Editors' Association)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-10
Published:: USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24801
Journal Title:: ByLine
Journal Title Details:: : 14-15
Notes:: Author uses personal career experience to emphasize the value of being involved in this professional organization.

73. Humanity and hope connect readers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Zinkland, Dan (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-10
Published:: USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24802
Journal Title:: ByLine
Journal Title Details:: : 1-3
Notes:: Summary of comments at Ag Media Summit by Tom Hallman, Jr., who received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

74. The people you meet

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wall, Ron (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2006-10
Published:: USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24803
Journal Title:: ByLine
Journal Title Details:: : 19-21
Notes:: Author describes his career path and reasons for his continuing interest in agricultural writing.

75. Unjust educational discrimination

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1918
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24824
Notes:: 2 pages., Author argues that pending postage increases for farm periodicals will result in less educational opportunity for farmers. "In nine families out of ten, it is practically the only source of extended education which they have."

76. New burdens on farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 1918
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24825
Notes:: 2 pages., Regarding need for repeal of the zone postage rate legislation soon to go into effect. "But the farmer will be the chief sufferer from the enforcement of this foolish law because he will be denied access to information upon which he is largely dependent for the prosecution of his industry."

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