Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28850
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Via Agriculture Online. 2 pages., Author examines topics of interest identified by women who have taken part in a Successful Farming magazine survey, as well as Agriculture Online's "Women in Agriculture Forum."
Author suggests the role of agricultural editors is not to speak to consumers about the importance of agriculture, but to speak to producers about the importance of consumers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10715
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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.
Online from periodical. 3 pages., Author described the responsibilities and importance of the produce manager/specialist. "These hardworking individuals live in two worlds; they have one foot in the stores and one foot in the corporate office." Emphasized the need for communications leadership among the teams with whom they work.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29275
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Via Nieman Watchdog. 5 pages., The Congressional stimulus packages "could mark a new, promising beginning - or they could be a new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon and rural phone companies."
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Online from periodical., Article briefly describes research indicating the windows of opportunity for encouraging babies to eat and like fruits and vegetables.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03073
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Greg Wells, editor of The Times Journal, Russell Springs, Kentucky, describes his experience at the occasion of reports of scandalous behavior by Miss USA Tara Conner, a hometown resident. Via the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Unviersity of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages.
Retrieved January 9, 2007, Via Boston.com, Commentator criticizes television weather reporters for failing to help viewers address the complications and implications of global warming.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06588
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Unpublished notes of responses during an interview/video session with Fawn Kurtzo, graduate student at the University of Arkansas, July 14, 2015. 4 pages.
Author comments on changes in terms being used, such as: producers for farmers, units for hog barns, operations for farms, commodities for crops, FFA for Future Farmers, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for College of Agriculture.
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23492
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Via Brownfield Network. 2 pages., Author reviews Fainting Goats and Malted Milk, a "fascinating little book of agricultural trivia or, more actually, trivial facts about agriculture." Cites it as a positive example of informing the public about modern farming.