Montagnes, Ian (author / Editing and Publication Training Course, International Rice Research Institute) and Editing and Publication Training Course, International Rice Research Institute
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: C02925
Posted at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-07-21-students-farmers_x.htm, Describes student-run farms that have cropped up at almost 60 schools in 27 states in the last decade or so, as well as programs under which local farmers provide food to area universities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24761
Notes:
Retrieved September 30, 2006, 2 pages., Summary of a summit meeting to address the future of the agricultural communications profession by identifying the issues, trends and developments associated with it. Took place in Kansas City, Missouri, November 13, 1993.
Reisner, Ann (author), Walter, Gerry (author), and Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04624
Editorial comments positively on a course in agricultural journalism being taught at the University of Wisconsin. Cites need for more farmers to write for their farm papers.
Doerfert, David L. (author), Simon, Leslie Ann (author), and Robertson, J. Tanner (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2003-04-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24760
Notes:
Retrieved September 30, 2006, Presented at the 22nd Annual Western Region Agricultural Education Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 23-26, 2003. 14 pages., "Based on the evidence collected during this preassessment of need study, the researchers concluded that a potential need exists for the addition of risk communication theory and practice to agricultural communcations degree programs."
Supports training of agriculture students in news-writing, and argues that they also should be trained in public speaking. Also: "it would seem that agricultural students should by all means know or learn how to make a living with their hands on land before they take up news-writing and public speaking. Our national literacy of the head is far greater than our literacy of the human hand. We cannot take much of a hand in nation-building from the ground up unless we have trained hands, even in this machine age."
