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2. Agribusiness Summary [OpenSecrets lobbying report]
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-01
- Published:
- United States: OpenSecrets
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12825
- Journal Title:
- OpenSecrets
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 8pgs, The agribusiness sector includes a diverse group of interests - crop producers, livestock and meat producers, poultry and egg companies, dairy farmers, timber producers, tobacco companies and food manufacturers and stores. The industry has new-found relevance going into 2019 as the trade war between China and the United States continues to rage leaving many in the business, especially soybean farmers, hurting. The industry's giving reached its peak in the 2016 presidential cycle spending more than $118 million. The number fell in 2018 to more than $92 million, but was good for the third-highest spending cycle, and highest for a midterm, the industry has had.
3. Appalachian region: a data overview from the 2015-2019 american community survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pollard, Kelvin (author), Jacobsen, Linda A. (author), and Population Reference Bureau (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Published:
- United States: Appalachian Regional Commission
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12620
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- Includes a series of charts and tables detailing personal computer and cellular ownership statistics for each county in Appalachia., 26 pgs, The data contained in this Chartbook describe how residents in the Appalachian Region were faring before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. As such, these numbers do not measure the social and economic impact of the outbreak. The Chartbook data do, however, provide a benchmark: As data from the pandemic and post pandemic period are released in the coming years, these figures can serve as a point of comparison that ultimately can enable data users to better measure the pandemic’s effect on Appalachia’s social and economic dynamics.
4. Comparative evaluation of agricultural publications and other farming news media
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pauli, Lowell E. (author)
- Format:
- Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 1958
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D11605
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Masters thesis - technical journalism, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 56 pages., Report of farmer interviews in Gear County, Kansas, assessing their readership and perceptions of agricultural publications distributed by the Agricultural Extension Service. Questions also invited their suggestions for improving access to desired agricultural information.
5. Extension and tourism: previous efforts, current trends, and the future
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Arbogast, Doug (author), Eades, Daniel (author), Goetz, Stephan (author), and Pan, Yuxuan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-05-09
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12595
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 12pgs, This study highlights the results of a national survey of Extension land-grant and sea grant professionals designed to better understand their involvement in state/regional tourism programming and their perceptions of tourism related opportunities and challenges. This study demonstrates the breadth and importance of Extension’s tourism programing and continued challenges including limited investment and commitment by state institutions and the larger CES for core tourism program offerings. Investments in tourism programing are recommended as a way for Extension to maintain its relevancy, and better engage and address the community and economic development needs of traditional and emerging audiences.
6. Improvements in agricultural charts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gifford, Claude W. (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- USA: Office of Governmental and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10721
- Notes:
- 8 pages., 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/, Describes 25 guidelines from a project to improve the effectiveness of USDA charts.
7. Making posters, flashcards, and charts for extension teaching
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Power, Gertrude Lenore (author / Visual Aids Specialist, Division of Information Programs, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Format:
- Handbook
- Publication Date:
- 1956-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 17 Document Number: B02069
- Notes:
- #1133, Harold Swanson Collection, Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Extension Service, 1956. 18 p. (Miscellaneous Publication No. 796)
8. Presentation of agricultural data in the states
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilcox, Emory C. (author) and Ebling, Walter H. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1949-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11853
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Farm Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(1), Part 2 : 309-322
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog, Authors noted great strides in presentation of agricultural data during the period between World War I and World War II. They emphasized the further need for researchers to add maximum usefulness to their findings by making them available, and in useful form. This article described some of the requirements and approaches for doing so, including training needs.