Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07333
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Pages 119-143 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages., Examines farmer adaptation to traditional weather knowledge and "modern" meteorological information.
USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09509
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Online via NAFB website. 12 pages., Responses to the 2014 AMR farmer radio listening rating study (33 states) conducted by AMI Ag Media Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of farms equipped with radios in the U.S. grew from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 to 550,000 in 1925. Farmers were found to tune in not so much for grand opera or baseball or political speecheds as for weather and market reports.
