Editorial comments on the series of mergers, consolidations, and buy-up in many sectors of the agricultural marketplace. "As always, only time will tell how long-standing any of these new names end up being."
USA: Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D11666
Notes:
2 pages., Author examines implications of Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods. Suggests possible consequences such as anti-trust charges of monopoly and impact on agricultural businesses and suppliers in the food chain. Also offers advice to reporters in covering this development.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10569
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3 pages., via website, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Community banks are essential to the local economy and play a vital role in the nation’s financial health. They provide business journalists a plethora of stories. To jump-start your reporting, here are national and regional trends regarding local banks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06623
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Presentation at a conference, "Concentration in agriculture: how much, how serious and why worry" at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, February 4, 2003. 18 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D11558
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1 page., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Farm Journal, the parent company of The Packer, is enhancing its Produce Market Guide digital platform by merging it with its brand Produce Retailer, creating a combined brand called PMG."
Rodekohr, Janet I. (author) and University of Wisconsin, Agricultural Journalism Department
Format:
Thesis
Publication Date:
1977-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 27 Document Number: B02687
Notes:
#329, Harold Swanson Collection. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Thesis, master of science in agricultural journalism, Agricultural Journalism Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 112 pages.
March 26 issue via online. 2 pages, Describes "the deal that combined 22 brands from Farm Progress with the six in Penton's ag group." Mentions some redundancies being addressed, especially in the southern region of the nation.
Gale, Wayne (author / Chair, American Seed Trade Association)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2019-06-18
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11041
Notes:
The June 7, 2019 commentary by Barber in the New York Times was retrieved online at: https://seedfreedom.info/opinion-save-our-food-free-the-seed. It is filed with this document., Online via seedworld.com. 3 pages., Response to an opinion piece in the New York Times by celebrity chef Dan Barber. Barber reported on visiting a 24,000-acre farm in North Dakota and observing the large scale of operations. He concluded: "We should be alarmed by the current architects." In this commentary author Gale offered a differing view of the changes in plant breeding and the seed industry over the past 100-plus years - and what they mean for the future.
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: 73 Document Number: D10785
Notes:
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/, Report of a special periodicals task force. 50 pages., Contains task force analyses and recommendations on each of the 26 periodicals reviewed. In each case, the task force listed the purpose, audience, some particulars about the production and distribution of the periodical, an analysis of it from the viewpoint of the task force, and recommendations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11765
Notes:
Online from AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., News of an ownership transition involving two marketing communications agencies, including one(Sage) with a variety of agricultural, animal health and business-to-business clients.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09636
Notes:
Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Pages 44-45 from a incomplete article in a publication identified with the Kansas State Board of Agriculture., Describes the merger of two of largest publishing firms in the Midwest on February 1, 1957. Involved newspapers, broadcast stations, agricultural periodicals, and printing services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11589
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5 pages., Online via publisher. 5 pages., Author interviewed Al Cross, director of the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, about the background of the Rural Blog and more generally about changes in the ways national and local journalists cover - or talk about- rural journalism. Other topics involved gaps in national news coverage about rural areas, who is doing rural journalism well, and effects of newspaper ownership changes in the types of stories that rural news outlets cover.
Garfrerick, Beth H. (author / University of North Alabama)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10069
Notes:
112 pages., Manuscript from author involving dissertation research., This monograph addresses the history of the community weekly newspaper in the United States throughout the twentieth century.
