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    1. "Seed to shelf," "teat to table," "barley to beer" and "womb to tomb" discourses of food quality and quality assurance schemes in the UK

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Morris, Carol (author) and Young, Craig (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    United Kingdom
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11892
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    16 : 103-115
    Notes:
    Online via UI Library electronic suscription., Using Farmers Weekly as a data source, authors identified four main discourses of farmer acceptance of, and resistance to, quality assurnce schemes; and discourses which construct a particular representation of consumers.

    2. Adoption of conservation production systems in three Midwest watersheds

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Napier, T. L. (author), Tucker, M. (author), and McCarter, S. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 120 Document Number: C13710
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
    Journal Title Details:
    55(2): 123-134
    Notes:
    12 p

    3. Can computer use on the farm build skills for off-farm jobs?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wojan, Tim (author / United States Department of Agriculture)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000-07
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23537
    Journal Title:
    Rural Conditions and Trends
    Journal Title Details:
    10(2) : 43-49
    Notes:
    7 p., The increasing use of computers on the farm raises the question of whether these new skills will be valued in off-farm employment. Data suggests that computers are used predominantly for a single group of tasks that may not develop the "systems skills" that are becoming increasingly important in off-farm employment.

    4. E-tending the farm

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fox, Robert (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000-07
    Published:
    USA: Association for Computer Machinery.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26784
    Journal Title:
    Communications of the ACM
    Journal Title Details:
    43(7) : 9
    Notes:
    Notes loyalty of farmers to local merchants and banks, along with wariness of e-commerce.

    5. Farmers' perspectives of Michigan State University Extension: Trends and lessons from 1996 and 1999

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Suvedi, Murari (author), Lapinski, Maria Knight (author), and Campo, Shelly (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 112 Document Number: C10921
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    38 (1)
    Notes:
    http://joe.org/joe/2000february/a4.html

    6. How not to electrocute the farmer: assessing attitudes towards electrification

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wolfe, Audra J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21171
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    74(2) : 515-529
    Notes:
    Assesses the attitudes of rural people towards farm electrification in the United States between 1920-1940. Hesitation of farmers to adopt electricity; impact of electricity on landscape transformation; implication of electrification for farm modernization.

    7. Landholders' reasons for adopting or rejecting plantation forestry on farms in north-east Tasmania

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kanowski, Peter (author), Race, Digby (author), and Schirmer, Jacki (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Australia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01894
    Journal Title:
    Rural Society
    Journal Title Details:
    10(3) : 361+
    Notes:
    Via Academic OneFile. 14 pages.