Rogers, Everett M. (author) and Burdge, Rabel J. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1965
Published:
USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10780
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/, Page 4 in Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal, August 11, 1965., Selected findings of a small Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station study involving personal interviews with truck farmers in Ohio. Rankings of information sources were provided, by adopter category (i.e., innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards).
Summarizes findings of a 2019 survey among U.S. farmers regarding their daily information sources for farming, agricultural news, weather and markets. "Even as new information sources appear and some farmers partake in them, traditional farm-news sources like radio continue to show broad-based strength."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08640
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington. Prog. Rpt. 40. 18 pages.
