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2. Impacts of the usda broadband loan and grant programs, the: Moving toward estimating a rate of return
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kandilov, Ivan T. (author) and Renkow, Mitch (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-01
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12777
- Journal Title:
- Economic Inquiry
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 1129 - 1145
- Notes:
- 17pgs, In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code Business Patterns for the period from 1997 to 2007. Our results indicate that two of the smaller broadband programs (the Pilot loan program and the broadband grants program) likely had no effect on local payroll per workers. On the other hand, the largest program in terms of funding and coverage (the current broadband loan program) likely had a positive impact. Our estimate implies that a $1 per capita increase in a particular zip code's one-time receipt of the current program broadband loan results in a $0.92 increase in payroll per worker annually. Our calculated point estimates of the benefit: cost ratios for this broadband program range from 1.98 to 2.99, depending on assumptions about the time frame over which benefits accrue. However, the confidence intervals are wide enough to include the possibility that the costs outweigh the benefits.
3. Modeling stakeholders perceptions of collaborative initiative effectiveness
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Selin, S. (author) and Can, D. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 120 Document Number: C13708
- Journal Title:
- Society and Natural Resources
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(8): 734-745
- Notes:
- 12 p
4. Perceptions of trust: Communicating climate change to cattle producers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Telg, Ricky W. (author), Lundy, Lisa (author), Wandersee, Cassie (author), Mukhtar, Saqib (author), Smith, David (author), Stokes, Phillip (author), and University of Florida Kansas State University Texas A&M University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: D10163
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(3)
- Notes:
- 14 pages; Article 5, via online journal article, The Cattle and Climate Conversations Workshop for Cooperative Extension and Natural Resources Conservation Service, the last activity funded through a multi-regional United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) grant, took place in October 2016 in Denver, Colorado, for Extension and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) representatives in the Southwest and Mountain West who work extensively with cattle producers. The purpose of this study was to identify how Extension agents and NRCS personnel in this workshop viewed the issue of “trust,” as it relates to communicating the topic of climate change to cattle producers. Three focus groups, comprised of 29 attendees of the workshop, were conducted simultaneously at the end of the conference. Specific themes about trust included the politically charged nature of climate change, climate change data manipulation, negativity of media surrounding climate change, weathercasters getting predictions wrong, agriculture getting a “black eye” with the public, and participants’ relationships with cattle producers. Findings indicate varying levels of distrust, related to sources of information and influence on the topic of climate change, greatly impact how and whether Extension Service and NRCS employees actually talk “climate change” to cattle producers. Based on the study’s findings, it is recommended that for Extension and NRCS employees to talk about controversial issues, like climate change, it is important to create relationships with clients. In addition, communication and education professionals working with cattle producers should avoid politicizing the topic of climate change if they want climate-related programs to be accepted.
5. The overlooked agricultural trade promotion program of the USDA trade aid packages
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Williams, Gary W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: D11667
- Journal Title:
- Choices
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(4) : 1-8
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Author reports on the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of agricultural trade promotion, observing an average of $10 return from $1 invested and noting that funds allocated to such promotion have been relatively small. ... "Given the high BCRs to export promotion...as reported by several studies, increased funding to those underfunded programs could produce rather dramatic results..."
6. USDA crop reports draw analysts' skepticism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Doran, Tom C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2009-08-21
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29272
- Journal Title:
- Agri News
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(24) : B8
- Notes:
- Analyst expresses doubt about accuracy of crop production estimates by USDA.