Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02921
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Online from Print Magazine. 6 pages., Selection of illustrations and advertisements from 1916 and perhaps other unidentified years in the Rural New Yorker farm periodical.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10557
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2 pages., via website, AgriMarketing Weekly., A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop suggesting in advertising that MillerCoors’ light beers contain corn syrup, wading into a fight between two beer giants that are losing market share to small independent brewers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11726
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Online from AgWeb.com via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Discontinued advertising campaign based on inaccurate information about using lemongrass in cows' diets to reduce methane emissions by "up to 33%."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25863
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Mail & Guardian (UK) via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Advertising Standards Authority is cited as ordering Monsanto to withdraw an advertising claim that no negative reactions have ever been reported to genetically modified foods.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28852
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Agricultural Publishers Association records, UI Archives., Bulletin 232, page 3., Urges excluding from farm papers copy that attacks dealers, advertisers selling direct or through dealers, or reflecting unfairly upon a competitor in business.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
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Article
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1922-06-27
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28854
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Special Bulletin. 8 pages., Describes a proposed campaign of publicity and advertising to promote marketers to advertise in farm periodicals.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
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Article
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1925-08-22
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28858
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., APA Bulletin 34, page 2.., Author notes the growing prospects of advertising by marketers of radios among farm residents.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29182
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Via MediaDailyNews. 1 page., Describes tests of SmartCarts which use digital screens attached to shopping carts to display advertising based on the shopper's physical location in the store, past preferences and shopping lists. ShoptoCook also operates a chain of interactive kiosks that allow shoppers to browse meal ideas and recipes, and prin free coupons during their visit.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29757
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Via Online Journalism Review. 4 pages., Question/response feature with New Zealand agricultural reporter, Philippa Stevenson, who "stirs up Kiwi farmers with her blog on snake oil fertilizers, gaseous sheep and global warming."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36824
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Page 2 of Bulletin No. 11-B., Advocated at a meeting of the Pure Milk Association by representatives of the National Dairy Council and Illinois Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22513
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 46, page 3., Publisher expresses concern about Ditto Egg Tablets, claimed to be an egg laying tonic the value to which more than 100,000 poultry producers testify. Urges farm papers to scrutinize advertising copy carefully.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22514
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 44, page 2., Reports inquiries from publishers about state Farm Bureau organizations that are considering publishing periodicals that sell advertising. Only one is doing so now, according to this report (Hoosier Farmer in Indiana), but others are reviewing possibilities. Author concludes: "On account of the loyal support given to the farm organization movement by farm papers generally, it would appear that farm bureau officials should not look with favor on any plan which might place farm organizations in the light of competitors to farm papers."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22515
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 33, p. 2, Reports on complaints from seed marketers about state agriculture department publications which offer free advertising service. Cited as inappropriate use of taxpayer money.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22516
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 33, p. 4, Cites a publisher urging farm paper publishers to "be very careful in handling the advertising of any concern connected with radio because there are so many unreliable machines, apparatus, in fact, individuals, that it would be a very easy matter to quite completely kill the radio business as far as farmers are concerned." Inferior sets being sold.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22518
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin 26, pp. 2-3., Cites a letter from the chairman of the Agricultural Press Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies noting that advertising agencies "do not hold themselves alert to the agricultural paper idea." Too much focus on markets in cities, too little on those in county seat towns in agricultural districts. Cites the low cost of farm paper advertising and urges advertising agencies to open-mindedly work with farm publishers to develop business.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22519
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Special Bulletin, 2 pages., Discusses the current capability of farm papers to handle color advertisements.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22520
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association. Article for Judicious Advertising. 2 pages., Refers to market information now available to farmers via radio and describes the positive financial condition of farmers. Urges readers to advertise to farmers through the agricultural press.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23118
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From nbc6.net. 1 page., Sarasota, Florida - Online casino pays for bovine advertising. PETA representative said to like the colorful cows because one of them says "Go Veg" on its side.
Cross, Al (author / Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues)
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Article
Publication Date:
2005
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23411
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Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. 4 pages., "The company buys relatively little newspaper advertising, and local newspapers and other businesses say it puts out of business the local firms that formed the retail and advertising bases in their areas."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23424
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1 page., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Focuses, in particular, on the impact of Wal-Mart on rural communities and media.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23607
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New Zealand Herald via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Natural sugar levels of most stonefruit prompt Food Standards Australia New Zealand to prevent them from being legally classifed as healthy.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23895
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New York Times via The Age, Melbourne, Australia. 2 pages., Online reservations company displays its corporate logo on blankets worn by sheep along public highways.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24398
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Global News Wire, Financial Times Information via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Describes financial performance and business plans of Rural Press, Australia-based media firm with major agricultural publishing interests in the U.S.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24839
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Bulletin No. 6, page 4., Combined circulation for 76 general farm papers in the U.S. is reported for 1922 as about 12 million copies and commercial advertising billing about $16,700,000.
Campbell, W.G. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Article
Publication Date:
1923-03-12
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24841
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Special Bulletin No. 21, pages 1-5., Defends objection to the practice of inducing dealers to write advertisers, suggesting the use of publications in territory covered by dealer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24850
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Bulletin No. 31, page 2., Identifies an advertising agency that is inviting free insertion of a "big news story" regarding one of the agency's clients. The agency "even proposed to furnish cuts to illustrate the article in question."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24854
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Special Bulletin No. 38, 3 pages., Reports from 19 farm paper publishers who replied to a questionnaire about the extent to which they are carrying radio advertising and conducting a radio page or column. Eighteen were carrying radio advertising.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24855
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Special Bulletin No. 37, 3 pages., Findings of surveys among farm publishers and advertising managers of Chicago department stores. Includes reports of objections raised by department stores about advertising in farm papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24860
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Bulletin No. 3, page 3., Advertisement in the Washington Farmer and Oregon Farmer is said to be the largest single advertisement ever placed in an agricultural publication on the Pacific Coast, and among the largest in the entire country.
