Statistical report in the 175th anniversary issue of Prairie Farmer. Features data about master farmer awards, the Prairie Farmer building, WLS Radio as part of Prairie Farmer Company, Farm Progress Shows and the Prairie Farmer Protective Union.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 63 Document Number: C02219
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James F. Evans Collection, Warwickshire, England : Royal Agricultural Society of England, National Agricultural Centre, 1987. 196 p. (Monograph Series No. 6)
August 1 issue via online. 2 pages., Article describes sale of Cygnus Business Media's agriculture group to American Farm Bureau Federation, "the largest trade association in the U.S. agriculture industry."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10776
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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/, Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal magazine, April 1, 1964. Claude W. Gifford Collection. 2 pages., Summarizes findings of a survey through a convenience sample of midwestern farmers by Fletcher, Wessel and Enright Advertising Agency, St. Joseph, Missouri. Invited information about biggest faults of farm advertising, farm shows attended, and most helpful sources of information for buying automated feeding system or grain storage and handling system.
