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    151. Farm Transition and Estate Planning: Farmers' Evaluations and Behavioral Changes Due to Attending Workshops

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Olson, Kent D. (author), Hachfield, Gary A. (author), Bau, David B. (author), Holcomb, C. Robert (author), Kurtz, James N. (author), and Craig, J. William (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2009-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30110
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 47, No. 2

    152. Farm and Forest Fair Educates Fifth Graders about Natural Resource Issues

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Brooks, Randall H. (author), Hart, Kenneth N. (author), and Church, James A. (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2009-06
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C30086
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 47, No. 3

    167. Food Stamps and Obesity: What We Know and What It Means

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ralston, Katherine (author), Ver Ploeg, Michele (author), and United States Department of Agriculture
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2008-06
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27866
    Journal Title:
    Amber Waves
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 6, Issue 3, pp. 16-21
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    Online access

    188. From supply push to demand pull: agribusiness strategies for today's consumers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Martinez, Stephen (author), Stewart, Hayden (author), and Amber waves: the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural america
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2003-11
    Published:
    USA: United States Department of Agriculture
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19084

    191. GM foods : a Nanjing case study of Chinese consumers' awareness and potential attitudes

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Marchant, Mary A. (author / University of Kentucky), Zhong, Funing (author / Nanjing Agricultural University), Ding, Yulian (author / Nanjing Agricultural University), and Lu, Kaiyu (author / Nanjing Agricultural University)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19129
    Journal Title:
    AgBioForum
    Journal Title Details:
    5 (4) : 136-144
    Notes:
    9 pages

    195. Giving spirit a new look

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mosby, Ann (author) and Cooperative Communicators Association
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2004-03
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20358
    Notes:
    CCA News, pages 1-3

    196. Globalization amid the cornfields: teaching sustainable practices in the American Midwest

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Salvo, Michael (author)
    Format:
    Online article
    Publication Date:
    2010-05
    Published:
    USA: ERIC
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10238
    Journal Title:
    The Writing Instructor
    Notes:
    13 pages., The original website no longer has a copy of the article. Access is available through ERIC database. ERIC Number: EJ890607, Via online source., This article discusses three sites that disrupt accustomed expectations and roles for technical communication. These sites include an agricultural processing site that is requesting tax abatements in exchange for decreased emissions so that it can remain competitive in the global market. The second is also an agricultural manufacturing site that remains globally competitive by increasing efficiencies and expanding the range of products made at the site. Finally, the essay discusses a manufacturing facility that takes finished products-automobiles-and remanufactures them for a niche market of users. Each of these Midwestern sites is globally competitive and challenges expectations for high technology work. Taken together, they gesture toward new definitions of work, in new postindustrial context, and offer insight for defining technical communication in the postindustrial age. The remaining challenge, for scholars and teachers, is to articulate emerging literacy practices supporting postindustrial manufacturing, and to participate in the knowledge management that supports innovation. Here, each site takes something that would have previously been considered either finished product or waste and rearticulates it as an ingredient in a new product. At the least, technical communicators will need to learn to document such organization's innovation and change. At best, such change invites technical communicators, acting as knowledge managers, to articulate opportunities for innovation. Research, a traditional strength of technical writing preparation, allows organizations to better prepare and understand change, turning disruption into opportunity. Postindustrial business practices are no longer the work of futurists, but the reality and structure of the workplace today. Each work site described in this article presents opportunities for basic research into emerging workplaces in need of the expertise of technical and professional writers; each is an example and potential model for knowledge work.