Darrow, Ken (author), Saxenian, Michael (author), and Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, CA; Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, CA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04318
Ray, Howard (author), Smith, William (author), and Smith: Senior Vice President, Academy for Educational Development; Ray: Director of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Academy for Educational Development
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04514
Green, Coppie (author / Assistant to the Statewide Director, University of Alaska Instructional Telecommunication Services (UAITS)) and Assistant to the Statewide Director, University of Alaska Instructional Telecommunication Services (UAITS)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04515
Ansah, Paul A.V. (author / Director, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Ghana) and Director, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Ghana
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04516
Heasley, Daryl K. (author / Extension Leadership and Program Development Specialist, Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) and Extension Leadership and Program Development Specialist, Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04655
Prabhakaran, T. (author), Raj Kamal, P.J. (author), and Raj Kamal: Department of Extension, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Trichur; Prabhakaran: Department of Extension
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04861
AGRICOLA AGE 85926146, Extract: The study examines evaluations of recent life experience in farming and expectations for life quality in the future as a function of farm structural characteristics and selected individual attributes. Based on a random sample of farm operators, the two sets of variables are used to predict subjective well-being within farm size categories. The results show that individual characteristics tended to be more important determinants of well- being than were farm structure dimensions. farm size and income measures had minor effects on self-ratings of well-being. Under controls, off-farm work status was not related to well-being. The determinants of well-being were particularly difficult to specify among large-farm operators.
AGRICOLA AGE 86926762, Extract: This paper describes four agribusiness simulators which can be processed on a microcomputer for use in undergraduate and extension teaching. The simulators model the environment in which supermarket chains, farm supply centers, and cooperative and proprietary grain elevators compete for business. Instruction manuals, user's manuals, and a diskette are distributed for each simulator. Each diskette contains programs to enter and print reports, and to create graphs of team performance. The simulators can be used to teach financial management concepts and techniques, as well as economic principles.
daCosta, Richard C. (author), Shaw, Anthony B. (author), and Shaw: Department of Geography, Brock University; daCosta: School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05122
AGRICOLA AGE 85925741, Extract: This study examined returns to scale for three categories of rice farms in a region of Guyana where there have been differential rates of technology adoption. It identified the various factors which affected rice production and assessed their relative importance on output. Production functions have been used in analyzing problems of resource allocation in peasant agriculture. These enable a comparison of relative performance of farmers, between farm types, and between geographical areas.
Ellis, John R. (author), Lacewell, Ronald D. (author), Reneau, Duane R. (author), and Ellis: Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Lacewell: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Reneau: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas, AR
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05123
Taylor, Daniel B. (author), Young, Douglas L. (author), and Taylor: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.; Young: Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05167
AGRICOLA AGE 85926239, Extract: The complementary interaction between topsoil depth and technical progress for winter wheat in the Palouse region was found to strengthen the long run payoff to conservation tillage. Nonetheless, conservation tillage was found to be competitive with conventional tillage only if its current yields disadvantages were eliminated. Conservation tillage was relatively more competitive on shallower topsoils and for longer planning horizons. Short-term subsidies coupled with research directed towards reducing the cost and yield disadvantages of conservation tillage in the Palouse were advocated to maintain long-term soil productivity.
Pearson, Dave (author), Weber, Jeff (author), Young, Douglas (author), and Associate Professors, Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA: Urbana, IL : National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05209
Cox, Graham (author), Lowe, Philip (author), Winter, Michael (author), and Cox, Winter: University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bath, UK; Lowe: Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, London, UK
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: Elmsford, NY : Pergamon.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05210
Kher, A. O. (author), Vasoya, B. P. (author), and Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Campus, Gujarat Agricultural University, Junagadh, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
India: Ahmedabad, India : The University.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05213
McCarthy, David A. (author), Williams, David L. (author), and Williams: Department Chairperson, Agricultural Education, Iowa State University; McCarthy: Discipline Leader, Mechanized Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Waseca, MN
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: [Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Education.]
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05216
Chiang, Katherine S. (author), Curtis, Howard (author), Demas, Samuel (author), Ochs, Mary A. (author), and Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Format:
Journal article
Language:
English with French / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
International: Wageningen, Netherlands : The Association.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05224
Full Title: Government information and private information services : competitors or colleagues from the viewpoint of the Association of Dutch Horticulture Study Groups = Overheids- en particuliere voorlichting : concurrenten of collega's, gezien vanuit de Vereniging van Nederlandse Tuinbouwstudiegroepen.
Korsching, Peter F. (author), Nowak, Peter J. (author), and Nowak: Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Korsching: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
USA: Ankeny, IA : Soil Conservation Society of America.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05250
AGRICOLA AGE 85925870, Extract: The thesis of this paper is that adaptive ability is unimportant when the processes generating the variables, which farmers take as exogenous, are stationary and unaltered. However, when these processes undergo structural change, adaptive ability is expected to affect the quality of production, marketing, and investment decisions. Farmers who have superior adaptive skills are expected on average to make better decisions. Furthermore, given the highly competitive nature of U.S. agriculture, successfully adapting to structural change is selective. Farmers possessing poor adaptive skill can be expected to comprise a relatively large share of the persons forced by economic circumstances to seek alternative employment or retirement, provided governmental intervention does not neutralize this selection process.
AGRICOLA AGE 85925869, Extract: The present paper consider both knowledge diffusion and adoption, assuming that a relevant and viable new technology is available. The focus is on the rationale for and scope of public sector involvement in these processes. Such involvement includes publicly sponsored information dissemination, intervention in output and input markets, intervention in the credit market, and investment in infrastructure. These issues are discussed below.
Dalrymple, Dana G. (author / Agricultural economistand senior research advisor, CGIAR Staff, Office of Agriculture, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05308
Holt, J.E. (author), Schoorl, D. (author), and Holt: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Schoorl: Redlands Horticultural Research Station, Ormiston, Queensland, Australia
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05310
Okuneye, P.A. (author / Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria) and Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05311
Fewster, Jean W. (author), Kuhonta, Cleofe M. (author), and Fewster: Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Reform Division, The Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy; Kuhonta: Communication specialist, Rome, Italy
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05312
AGRICOLA FNI 85008260, Extract: Communicating more effectively with rural women in developing countries can help accelerate the acceptance of change. These women are and have been deprived of the information they need for problem-solving and for evaluating options before making decisions. They need information that responds to their multiple roles as parents, partners, and food producers. They need networks to link them with other women. A model of the communication process is presented, showing the variables that interact and influence communication. Attention is directed to the need to identify and differentiate audience groups, to provide information that is situationally relevant and easy to comprehend, and to use an appropriate combination of interpersonal, group and mass communication. Integrating a communication component into programs and projects is recommended. (author).
Nellis, John R. (author), Young, Frank W. (author), and Young: Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nellis: Public Sector Management Unit, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05314
Babu, I. Reddi (author), Satyanarayana, Ch. (author), and Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India; Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05315
China, Richard A. (author), Langmead, P. (author), and China: Agricultural extension and training specialist, AGTECS; Langmead: Media and rural communications speicalist, AGTECS
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-09
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05317
Just, Richard E. (author), Zilberman, David (author), and Just: Professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Zilberman: Associate professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05318
AGRICOLA AGE 85925871, Extract: This paper draws on some recent rigorous results to illuminate the distributional consequences of agricultural policy. The paper begins by discussing the important characteristics of the agricultural sector that must play a role in a minimally realistic model of distributional effects. Heterogeneity gives rise to different regimes of behavior among farmers. These regimes are used to illustrate the equity effects of agricultural policy.
Branson, Floyd F., Jr. (author), Davis, Shirley M. (author), and Branson: Assistant Director, Personnel and Training, Indiana Cooperative Extension Service, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Davis: Director, Division of Independent Study, Continuing Education Administration, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05713
