Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10716
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/, 2 pages., Author's thoughts as editorial director of Farm Journal magazine. 1 page draft.
Via UI Library online subscription., Owner of the Hardwick Gazette community newspaper in Vermont describes his experience in seeking a new owner through an essay contest. His quest included confirmation of the importance of community newspapers in their areas of circulation.
Block, John (author / U.S. Secretary of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1984-06-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10742
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/, Speech written for presentation to the first Agricultural Communicators Congress, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1984. 8 pages., Author presents 12 features that he ascribes to the role, work, and impact of agricultural journalists and communicators. Among them: "you are national treasuries of this land of ours." He describes current issues facing agriculture and discusses elements of a 2018 farm bill to be developed.
Crawford, Nelson A. (author) and Rogers, Charles E. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1926
Published:
USA: A.A. Knopf, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14864
Notes:
300 pages., Sections feature the farmer's mind, the field of agricultural journalism, sources and types of agricultural information, and agricultural journalism methods.
AgComm teaching; Paper presented at the Agricultural History Symposium on Science and Technology in Agriculture; 1979; Kansas State University, Manhattan. Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Tracks the information sources used by early agricultural journalists, leading to a contemporary diffusion approach in which farm readers were no longer viewed as "collaborators in agricultural study." They "were to be consumers of information vended by experts." (p. 37)
