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    1. A national evaluation of the beef cattle industry's use of communication channels to obtain information regarding food safety

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Akers, Cindy (author), Burris, Scott (author), Jennings, Moriah (author), Brashears, Todd (author), Brashears, Mindy (author), and Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2008-02-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: C27570
    Notes:
    Presented at the Agricultural Communications Section, SAAS annual meeting, Dallas, Texas, February 2-4, 2008. 17 pages.

    2. Agri-marketers to profit from commercial producer survey

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gray, Allan (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008-09
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28274
    Journal Title:
    Agri Marketing
    Journal Title Details:
    46(7) : 52
    Notes:
    Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/, Author summarizes findings of the 2008 Large Commercial Producer Survey.

    3. Agricultural information sources used by farmers in Imo State, Nigeria

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Opara, Umunna Nnaemeka (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Nigeria
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05668
    Journal Title:
    Information Development
    Journal Title Details:
    24(4) : 289-295
    Notes:
    Findings emphasize the importance of interpersonal/expert sources (i.e. extension agents).

    4. An analysis of the level of trust Texas cotton producers place in the Texas newspaper media: a qualitative determination of the characteristics of trust

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Akers, Cindy (author), Fraze, Steven (author), Burris, Scott (author), and Foster, Jerode (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    USA: American Association of Agricultural Education
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29475
    Journal Title Details:
    27 : 43-57
    Notes:
    Proceedings of the 2008 WesternRegion AAAE Research Conference.

    5. Can traditional knowledge contribute to agriculture?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Washington, D.C.; Rome, Italy; Nairobi, Kenya; and Paris, France.
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2008-04
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27798
    Notes:
    1 page., Suggests the answer, "Yes." Executive summary of a set of reports agreed to at an Intergovernmental Plenary Session in Johannesburg, South Africa, in April, 2008. This was a small part of a study during the past three years by UN organizations, the World Bank and many governments involving 400 experts.

    6. Colorado AgrAbility: enhancing the effectiveness of outreach efforts targeting farmers and ranchers with disabilities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Christen, Cindy T. (author) and Fretsch, Robert J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30478
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Applied Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    92(1-2)
    Notes:
    Via online issue. 12 pages.

    8. Digital media - a component of your media mix?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dales, Joe (author) and Farms.com Professional Services, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008-07
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28168
    Journal Title:
    Farms.com Highlighter Newsletter
    Notes:
    Via online issue. 2 pages.

    9. E-commerce and farmers' decision-making: a case study from Uttar Pradesh (India)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gaiani, Silvia (author) and Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria Agrarie, Universita di Bologna.
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    India
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28332
    Notes:
    DEIAgra Working Paper 08-002. 17 pages., Examines whether the use of e-Choupal for information dissemination and service delivery leads to improvements in farmers' quality of decisions. E-Choupal is the largest information technology-based intervention created in rural India by a corporate entity, the Indian Tobacco Company.

    14. How I got that story: Gus Garcia-Roberts

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bailey, Phillip (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2008-12-02
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36057
    Notes:
    Via businessjournalism.org. 2 pages., Interview with an award-winning journalist whose stories had included coverage of a meth epidemic in Ohio.

    15. Impact of extension privatization on formal or informal collective procedures for the accumulation of knowledge: lessons from a comparision between South and North

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Moumouni, Ismail M. (author) and Labarthe, Pierre (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2008-03-09
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27875
    Notes:
    Presented at the 24th annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) at EARTH University, Costa Rica, March 9-15, 2008. 10 pages.

    17. NAFB national producer media-use wave study

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Nebraska.
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2008-11
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28492
    Notes:
    Results of a national (US) study of media use among Class 1A ($100,000+ in annual agricultural sales) producers. Packet includes a printed executive summary, printed description of methodology and a CD that provides a summary report and detailed tabulations.

    22. Survey reflects national agribusiness trends

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Nickas, Katie (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008-10-24
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28384
    Journal Title:
    Illinois AgriNews
    Journal Title Details:
    31(33) : D9
    Notes:
    Summarizes findings of the 2008 Large Commercial Producer survey by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

    23. Sustainable agriculture in the news: international study stresses role of farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jiggins, Janice (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008-06
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27797
    Journal Title:
    LEISA Magazine
    Journal Title Details:
    24(2) : 36
    Notes:
    "The recent global food crisis shows that agro-technology and markets alone cannot reduce hunger. A ground-breaking three-year study recently concluded that the agriculture sector should use the know-how of smallholder farmers better." For details about the study, see www.agassessment.org.

    25. The attitudes and views of farmers on the new common agricultural policy and the restructuring of crops: the case of Greece

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Aggelopoulos, S. (author), Pavloudi, A. (author), Manolopoulos, I. (author), and Kamenidou, I. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Greece
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C37016
    Journal Title:
    American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
    Journal Title Details:
    4(4) : 397-404

    26. Time 2 wtr ur cottn

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2008-05-09
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28338
    Journal Title:
    Science
    Journal Title Details:
    320(5877) : 725
    Notes:
    New wireless monitoring system for use by farmers in watering crops.

    29. What farmers think about GM (genetically modified) crops

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, England.
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2008-02-24
    Published:
    UK
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27342
    Notes:
    2 pages., Survey among large-scale, commodity farmers. Includes a reference to findings that many farmers disapprove of past cuts in public funding for agricultural advisory services. "It is now complicated and expensive for farmers to get good advice."