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1. Podcasts in production: an examination of current and best practices for agricultural and natural resource podcast producers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Aenlle,Jacqueline (author), Loizzo, Jamie (author), Lundy, Lisa K. (author), Bunch, J. C. (author), and Folta, Kevin M. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-01
Published:: America: New Prairie Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12749
Journal Title:: Journal of Applied Communication
Journal Title Details:: Vol 106, Iss. 4
Notes:: 22 pages

2. Knowledge of intergenerational farm transfer among cocoa farmers in southwest Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Adebayo, Sijuwade Adebukola (author), Joyce, Ogundiran Tosin (author), and Babatunde, Raphael Olanrewaju (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-04
Published:: Poland: Poznan University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12750
Journal Title:: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 66, N.4
Notes:: 10 pages, The study focused on the knowledge of intergenerational farm transfer among cocoa farmers in southwestern Nigeria. A three-stage sampling technique was used to select 5% of the total 6,843 registered cocoa farmers with the Agricultural Development Project (ADP), making a total sample size of 342 cocoa farmers. Data were collected through interviewer-administered questionnaires and analysed using percentages, frequency distributions and chi-square tests. The results revealed that a majority of the respondents were male (77.0%) and had farm sizes of 5 ha and below (84.9%). The respondents had a mean age of 58 years and a mean household size of six persons. The results show that a majority (65.3%) of respondents had low knowledge about intergenerational farm transfer. 56.9% of the respondents had not discussed the issue of intergenerational farm transfer plans with anybody. The results also show that cocoa farmers’ succession plan status has a positive relationship with their knowledge of intergenerational farm transfer. The study concluded that the knowledge of cocoa farmers about the process of farm transfer is poor. The study recommends that cocoa farmers be trained in the process of intergenerational farm transfer to ensure family farm sustainability.

3. Urban-rural links for sustainable food consumption in Bangkok

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cavalleri, Sofia Anna Enrica (author), Grünbühel, Clemens M. (author), and Tanwattana, Puntita (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01
Published:: Germany: CENTMA Research
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12752
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 14, N.1
Notes:: 12 pages, Current food systems fail to directly link urban consumers with rural producers. City-regional strategies need to reconnect consumers with producers through sustainable local food systems. This research developed and distributed a survey questionnaire to 400 consumers in Bangkok. Findings prove that there is a statistically significant association between urban-rural relation and sustainable urban consumer behavior (Pearson’s Chi-square test for independence resulting in a significance level of p < 0.05). Sustainable consumer behavior is influenced by environmental, sociocultural, economic and health drivers, while lack of food traceability, lack of rural experience, lack of access to rural communities and negative social perception disrupt consumer-producer links. Community-based gastrotourism emerges as one of the best practices to link urban consumers with rural producers and plan sustainable food systems in mega-cities like Bangkok.

4. Agricultural commodities price dependence on Brazilian financial market

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Casagranda, Yasmin Gomes (author), Casarotto, Eduardo Luis (author), Pereira, Gênesis Migue (author), Amorin, Anderson Luís Walker (author), Schollkopf, Joana Cechele (author), and Mores, Giana de Vargas (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01
Published:: Germany: CENTMA Research
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12753
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 14, N.1
Notes:: 7 pages, This study aims to identify whether there is dependence between agricultural commodities traded on the Brazilian market. We used the bivariate copula method over a ten-year period to assess the extreme effects on the returns of the following commodities: soybean, wheat, Arabica coffee, and Robusta coffee. The relationship directly affects the dependence between Arabica and Robusta coffees commodities. While the relationship between wheat, Arabica and Robusta coffees, and soybean is positively dependent. Economic growth, market dynamics, and the prices of an agricultural commodity tend to increase the price of other commodities.

5. Exploring the barriers to the adoption of climate-smart irrigation technologies for sustainable crop productivity by smallholder farmers: evidence from South Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Serote, Batizi (author), Mokgehle, Salmina (author), Senyolo, Grany (author), Plooy, Christian du (author), Hlophe‐Ginindza, Samkelisiwe (author), Mpandel, Sylvester (author), Nhamo, Luxon (author), and Araya, Hintsa (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-19
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12769
Journal Title:: Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 2
Notes:: 21 pages, Climate change continues to impact the livelihoods of smallholder farmers due to low adaptive capacity. In South Africa, the challenge is exacerbated by water scarcity and shortened crop-growing seasons. Climate-smart irrigation innovative technologies (CSIT) enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change. However, there is still a limited level of effective adoption and usage of these technologies in smallholder communities. This study investigated the barriers affecting the adoption of CSIT in rural areas of the Vhembe and Capricorn districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa. We explored the farmers’ socioeconomic factors extracted from farmers’ perceptions of CSIT-specific attributes. A multi-stage randomized sampling technique was used to select 100 smallholder farmers (SHF). Data analyzed by descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency distribution are presented in graphs and tables. According to the findings, insufficient communication channels, a lack of financial availability, unstable land tenure systems, and insufficient training are the main obstacles to implementing CSIT. There is a need for policy and decision-makers to improve the communication channels for disseminating agro-meteorological information to the intended beneficiaries.

6. Do not be anticlimactic: farmers’ behavior in the sustainable application of green agricultural technology—a perceived value and government support perspective

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Xiang, Wen (author) and Gao, Jianzhong (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-19
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12771
Journal Title:: Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 2
Notes:: 24 pages, The production mode of “high input, high yield and high waste” in the agricultural system poses a serious threat to the environment and the quality of agricultural products. Accelerating the adoption of green agricultural technology (GAT) by farmers is an emergency measure. However, according to microsurvey data, many farmers give up GAT within a year after adopting it. The implementation of this measure has been anticlimactic. Based on a survey of 1138 kiwi growers in Shaanxi Province, China, this paper builds a theoretical model and conducts empirical exercises to gain insight into the effects of perceived value, government support and their interaction with kiwi growers’ sustainable application of GAT. We find that perceived value and government support have a significant impact on the sustainable application of GAT. Government support plays a moderating role in the influence of perceived value on the sustainable application of GAT. Furthermore, in order to overcome the potential endogeneity problem caused by the two-way causal relationship between subjective variables, “owning a smartphone” was selected as the instrumental variable. The 2SLS model was used for endogeneity analysis, and the OLS model was used for the robustness test. This paper discusses the relevant theories and policy implications of environmental management.

7. Impact of internet use on farmers’ organic fertilizer investment: a new perspective of access to credit

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Weng, Feilong (author), Liu, Xuan (author), and Huo, Xuexi (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-16
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12772
Journal Title:: Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 1
Notes:: 13 pages, Encouraging farmers to increase the use of organic fertilizer will be conducive to promoting the green transformation of farmers’ production and realize sustainable agricultural development. As a long-term investment, the accuracy of farmers’ access to organic fertilizer information and the supporting role of credit are important factors that affect their organic fertilizer application decisions. However, the existence of information asymmetry in the organic fertilizer market and the credit constraints in the financial market, which restricts the enthusiasm of farmers to apply organic fertilizer. In recent years, the rapid development of the Internet in China’s rural areas has effectively alleviated the degree of information asymmetry in rural areas, and improved farmers’ access to credit, which provides a new opportunity for farmers to increase the application rate of organic fertilizer. This study takes 1030 apple growers in the main apple production areas of China as the research object, and employs Tobit model, IV-Tobit model and mediation effect model to explore the impact of internet use on farmers’ organic fertilizer investment. The results show that internet use can promote farmers’ organic fertilizer investment. After addressing the endogeneity issue and the robustness test, the conclusion is still robust. Heterogeneity analysis shows that internet use has a more significant impact on organic fertilizer investment in the older generation and the large-scale group of farmers. The mechanism analysis shows that internet use affects farmers’ organic fertilizer investment through improving access to credit. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously improve the construction of rural digital infrastructure, accelerate the development of the Internet in rural areas, and actively guide financial resources to agriculture, so as to effectively promote the green transformation of agricultural production.

8. Agricultural commodities price dependence on Brazilian financial market

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Casagranda, Yasmin Gomes (author), Casarotto,Eduardo Luis (author), Pereirac, Gênesis Miguel (author), Amorin, Anderson Luís Walker (author), Schollkopf, Joana Cechele (author), and Mores, Giana de Vargas (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01
Published:: Germany: CENTMA Research
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12776
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 14, N.1
Notes:: 7 pages, This study aims to identify whether there is dependence between agricultural commodities traded on the Brazilian market. We used the bivariate copula method over a ten-year period to assess the extreme effects on the returns of the following commodities: soybean, wheat, Arabica coffee, and Robusta coffee. The relationship directly affects the dependence between Arabica and Robusta coffees commodities. While the relationship between wheat, Arabica and Robusta coffees, and soybean is positively dependent. Economic growth, market dynamics, and the prices of an agricultural commodity tend to increase the price of other commodities.

9. Record-breaking egg profits prompt accusation of price gouging

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Carlson, Claire (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-23
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12783
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 4pgs, A farmer-advocacy organization says record-breaking increases in the price of eggs isn’t being caused by inflation or avian flu, as claimed by egg companies, but by price collusion among the nation’s top egg producers.

10. USDA strengthens rules and enforcement to make sure organic products are really organic

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Rembert, Elizabeth (author)
Format:: Article/Audio Story
Publication Date:: 2023-02-03
Published:: United States: National Public Radio
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12790
Journal Title:: Harvest Public Media
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 4pgs, The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reinforced oversight on organic certification and enforcement to prevent mislabeled products, in what advocates are calling the biggest update in decades.

11. Rise of virtual farmers markets, the

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Borts-Kuperman, Leah (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-31
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12793
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: +ACDC ACES
Notes:: 10pgs, Why farmers are increasingly banding together to take their products online, targeting consumers directly without the fuss of a physical market.

12. Socioeconomic factors influencing uptake of regenerative agriculture technologies in the drylands of Embu County, Kenya

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Otara, Elvin (author), Rasugu, Hezron Mogaka (author), Ndirangu, Samuel (author), and Mugwe, Jayne Njeri (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-30
Published:: Nigeria: Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12795
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 27, N.1
Notes:: 12 pages, This study evaluated socioeconomic factors influencing the uptake of regenerative agriculture technologies in the dry lands of Embu County. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to 400 farm households. Multivariate Probit model (MVP) and percentage were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study indicate that several socioeconomic factors including farming experience, farm size, main occupation, off-farm activities, age, gender, marital status and education level influenced the uptake of various regenerative agriculture technologies. Government and other inventors should take these factors into consideration while making decisions and formulating policies to support the dissemination and uptake of agricultural innovations.

13. Impact of agricultural extension services on cereal production among rural farmers in Bhutan

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Shangshon, Bhakta (author), Polthanee, Anan (author), Wongsamun, Chaicharn (author), and Suriya, Patcharee (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-21
Published:: Nigeria: Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12796
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 27, N.1
Notes:: 14 pages, This study explored impact of agricultural extension services on cereal production. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire from a random sample of 262 farmers from four regions (east, west, north, and south) in Bhutan. Farmers assessed the impact of extension services on five aspects of cereal production (cereal seed, social, environmental, production, and marketing aspects). Percentages and an ordered logistic model were used to analyze the data. The study found a low level of farmers’ participation in extension services. The social aspect of cereal production was the most impacted by the extension programmes, while the marketing aspect was the least impacted. The farmers’ cultivated dry land (Coeff. = 0.21) and wetland (Coeff. = 0.72), their participation in extension services (Coeff. = 0.61), and the extra labour (Coeff. = 0.24) significantly contributed to cereal production. The provision of effective and high-quality extension programs by extension agents is critical for smallholder farmers to enhance their agricultural production.

14. Improved management of grassland to promote sustainable use based on farm size

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: He, Xin (author), Wei, Jingru (author), Gu, Suhua (author), Wang, Luping (author), Tian, Zechen (author), Chen, Danqiong (author), and Yuan, Jiazhi (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-31
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12797
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss.2
Notes:: 13 pages, Grassland farms form the basis of grassland resource management in China. Farm sizes in China are generally small, which obviously increases the risk of grassland ecosystems. It is necessary to analyze the impact of farm size on grasslands from the perspective of livestock production in order to improve grassland management. This study combines field investigations and statistical analysis from 2004 to 2020, using a total of 126 farms from the Xilinguole League of Inner Mongolia in China as samples. These sample farms are divided into large farms and small farms. Different production scale and management behaviors are explored, along with their different impacts on grassland resources use. The results show that the expansion of farm size is constrained by the government management policies. Different behaviors are adopted by large and small farms in terms of finance, grassland circulation, and overgrazing management. The differentiation mechanisms of different farm size and the utilization of grassland resources are clarified in this study. This work suggests that managers promote sustainable use based on farm size and build appropriate policies to avoid future risks. The results of this study can provide a framework for solving similar problems.

15. Artificial intelligence applications in the agrifood sectors

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kutyauripo, Innocent (author), Rushambwa, Munyaradzi (author), and Chiwazi, Lyndah (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-06
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12818
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 11
Notes:: 8 pages, Food security is one of the priorities of every country in the World. However, different factors are making it difficult to meet global targets on food security. Some unprecedented shocks are encumbering food security at the global level. Various interventions have been applied toward food security and artificial intelligence is one of the modern methods that is being used in various stages of the food system. In this paper, the application of artificial intelligence in the whole food production ecosystem ranging from crop production, livestock production, harvesting/slaughtering, postharvest management, food processing, food distribution, food consumption and food waste management is assessed. The objective of this research is to assess the application of artificial intelligence systems in all the stages of food systems. A systematic review was conducted by analyzing 110 articles after the screening of 450 articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results indicated that various artificial intelligence algorithms are being applied to all the stages of the food system from crop/livestock production up to food or agro-waste management.

16. Perspectives on communicating 21st-Century agricultural innovations to Nigerian rural farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ejem, Agwu Agwu (author), Aremu, Charity (author), Ajakaiye, Olanrewaju O.P (author), Ben-Enukora, Charity (author), Akerele-Popoola, Oluwakemi E. (author), Ibiwoye, Tope Israel (author), and Olaniran, Abiola Folakemi (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-19
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12819
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 11
Notes:: 8 pages, This perspective paper reviews the existing research directions on agricultural extension programmes in Nigeria and highlights how they are incapable of diffusing enough knowledge to facilitate the adoption of 21st-century agricultural innovations and enhance sustainable practices among rural farmers. A key idea of this paper is to suggest a new direction of research that is oriented towards the quality, skills, and strategies of effective and efficient communication that the extension agents possess, and a two-way communication delivery, and accentuate how it is a panacea for effective diffusion of knowledge and adoption of agricultural innovations among rural farmers. The methodology was to review and compare bodies of literature from countries with the best agricultural extension and rural advisory services, particularly some countries in Asia, and show how insights from those countries can inform a new research direction in effectively communicating agricultural innovations to Nigerian rural farmers. Drawing on experiences from those countries, it was confirmed that Nigeria's extension system is not effective and efficient in communicating innovations in global agricultural practices to farmers in the rural areas, and research efforts in extension services in the country are still fixated on the role of extension agents as teachers to farmer-pupils and one-way communication delivery from research through extension to farmers, and the availability and ability to use communication channels. Based on the current challenges in farming and agriculture at large, there is a need to rethink the concept of extension in Nigeria, emphasize training of agents, acquisition of communication skills and adoption of a two-way communication delivery that recognises farmers as autonomous agents and co-designers of agricultural innovations and not just passive receivers. The value of this paper is that it is arguably the first attempt to chart a new perspective and communication delivery methods for research and practice in agricultural extension programmes in Nigeria.

17. Agricultural yield, food nutrition and dietary energy supply in Nigeria: evidence from nationally representative data

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Akano, Oreoluwa Ibukun (author), Oderinde, Folasade Olubunmi (author), and Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-07
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12820
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 11
Notes:: 16 pages, Producing sufficient food to satisfy nutritional needs is imperative for building a prosperous society. This study examined trends in agricultural yields, water and sanitation services, and nutrition indices in Nigeria. Secondary data from the FAO-FAOSTAT (2000–2020) were utilized and analyzed using descriptive statistics, the respective coefficients of variation and determination, the Mann-Kendall trend test, the Pearson correlation and multivariate regression for statistical inferences. The results show trends for data on several variables. GDP per capita and population numbers were positively correlated with the number of children under five years of age who were stunted, and the proportion of population and number of people using safely managed and at least basic drinking water and sanitation services. A major result was the significant positive relationship between cassava yield and number of children under five who were stunted. Also, there was the negative influence of population numbers on cassava and maize yields. If not attended to, the outcomes of these relationships are expected to exacerbate nutrition insecurity and stunting in children under five. An improvement in the national indices on agricultural yields and nutrition security is imperative for the accelerated attainment by 2030 of the national nutrition security targets and the SDGs.

18. Moonshine: from no business to big business

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Roysdon, Keith (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-22
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12821
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 8pgs, Once illegal but highly sought-after, the hard “likker” of Appalachia is slowly trickling into the wide river of government-sanctioned booze.

19. ‘A public health crisis in the making’: agriculture pollutes underground drinking water in Minnesota. Well owners pay the price

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: McVan, Madison (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-12
Published:: United States: Investigate Midwest
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12824
Journal Title:: Investigate Midwest
Journal Title Details:: online
Notes:: 10pgs, More than 1 million Minnesotans drink from private wells but few know if their water is safe, experts said.

20. Commentary: for the fate of american farming, our response is required

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Lamb, Brooks (author)
Format:: online article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-02
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12826
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: online
Notes:: 2pgs, For farmers, filling out the USDA’s Census of Agriculture before the February 6 deadline is more than a legal obligation. It’s a way to keep watch over our farmlands and help bring about necessary changes.

21. A survey on deep learning and its impact on agriculture: challenges and opportunities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Albahar, Marwan (author)
Format:: Review
Publication Date:: 2023-02-23
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12827
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 3
Notes:: 22 pages, The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements in the use of deep learning (DL) in the agricultural sector. The author conducted a review of studies published between 2016 and 2022 to highlight the various applications of DL in agriculture, which include counting fruits, managing water, crop management, soil management, weed detection, seed classification, yield prediction, disease detection, and harvesting. The author found that DL’s ability to learn from large datasets has great promise for the transformation of the agriculture industry, but there are challenges, such as the difficulty of compiling datasets, the cost of computational power, and the shortage of DL experts. The author aimed to address these challenges by presenting his survey as a resource for future research and development regarding the use of DL in agriculture.

22. Urban gardening in a changing climate: a review of effects, responses and adaptation capacities for cities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tomatis, Francisco (author), Egerer, Monika (author), Correa-Guimaraes, Adriana (author), and Navas-Gracia, Luis Manuel (author)
Format:: Review
Publication Date:: 2023-02-20
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12828
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 2
Notes:: 16 pages, Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban gardens. Gardens experience threats (e.g., water scarcity) but are also responding through adaptation strategies (e.g., selecting drought-resilient plants). A synthetic overview of how urban gardens are affected by climate change and responding to climate change is unclear. Here, we systematically reviewed articles and book chapters published in the last two decades (2000–2022) to illustrate the relationship between climate change and urban gardening. From 72 documents analyzed with Nvivo Software, we found that there has been an increase in academic publications. Universities from the US (14) and Germany (9) universities are the dominant producers. Evidence shows that climate change can have negative impacts on cities, people and urban food. Suggestions on how to build the adaptation capacity of urban gardens include collecting rainwater, changing plant selection, changing planting times, applying vegetative cover on the soil and other practices. For cities, community and allotment gardens are helpful for adaptation, mitigation and resilience. This includes the capacity to regulate the microclimate, to reduce urban heat island effects and to buffer urban floods, the power to capture carbon, the ability to create social networks and other socio-environmental benefits for urban climate planning.

23. Automatic equipment to increase sustainability in agricultural fertilization

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: García, Mario Martínez (author), Cabral, Silvia Ramos (author), Zúñiga, Ricardo Pérez (author), and Rodríguez, Luis Carlos G. Martínez (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-19
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12830
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N. 2
Notes:: 17 pages, The purpose of the study was to design a device for the dissolution of fertilizers for agricultural use in an automatic and environmentally sustainable way to facilitate the work of farmers. To achieve this goal, an outdated blade design was used, which generates turbulent and laminar flows thanks to the angle of inclination of its blades. In tests, the combination of these two flows gave a better result compared to laminar and turbulent flows separately. The best results were achieved by varying the spin and speed, the time between spins, and the rest time. The time it would take to dissolve the mixture was drastically reduced if it were conducted in the traditional way (manually) or compared with commercial mixers. In conclusion, the technique used for the dissolution of agricultural minerals is more effective and reduces time, energy, and effort. This was able to reduce the time necessary to dissolve the fertilizer by 93 percent compared to doing it manually and by 66 percent compared to using commercial mixers, in a solution of 100 L of water per 100 kg of ammonium sulfate.

24. How Agricultural farmers respond to risks during the covid-19 pandemic: an exploration through the dual social capitals approach

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hao, Mingsong (author), Xi Zhou, Chuntian Lu (author), and Xu, Jing (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-17
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12831
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N. 2
Notes:: 18 pages, The degree of risk to which agricultural farmers are exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they tackle those difficulties is a critical topic. Although the topic has been paid considerable attention by worldwide scholars, this study intends to compensate for it via conducting a ground-breaking analysis based on sample survey data. Integrating theoretical perspectives of individual- and collective-level social capitals rooted in sociology, and using NPRM (Nested Poisson Regression Model) to analyze a sample survey data collected in rural China in August 2020, we generated the following findings. (1) The overall risks and damages to agricultural production and management are relatively minimal. Thus, farmers are highly confident in conquering the pandemic and recovering their business. (2) Compared with micro- and macro-level influencing factors, social capital at both levels could greatly help agricultural farmers obtain informal and formal supporting resources (such as encouragement and financial supports), thus helping them to cope with the pandemic shock. (3) Specifically, the acquisition of informal supporting resources is mainly affected by the size of farmers’ ordinary networks (Spring Festival Visiting Network) and the frequency of public activities held in a village; gaining access to formal supporting resources is also influenced by the frequency of public activities, but the state of farmers’ personal connections with official departments plays a crucial role in determining the amount of such resources can be obtained. According to these empirical findings, suggestions on how to suppress the negative effects and lift the positive effects of dual social capitals in the process of responding to risks are proposed.

25. Farmer perceived challenges toward conservation practice usage in the margins of the corn belt, USA

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kumar Adhikari, Ram (author), Wang, Tong (author), Jin, Hailong (author), Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D. (author), Sieverding, Heidi L. (author), and Clay, David (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-14
Published:: England: Cambridge University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12834
Journal Title:: Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 14pgs, While conservation practices promote soil health and reduce the negative environmental effects from agricultural production, their adoption rates are generally low. To facilitate farmer adoption, we carried out a survey to identify potential challenges faced by farmers regarding conservation tillage and cover crop adoption in the western margin of the US Corn Belt. We found farmers' top two concerns regarding conservation tillage were delayed planting, caused by slow soil warming in spring, and increased dependence on herbicide and fungicides. Narrow planting window and lack of time/labor were perceived by farmers as the two primary challenges for cover crop adoption. Some sense of place factors, including the commonly included dimensions of attachment, identity and dependence, played a role in farmers' perceived challenges. For example, respondents more economically dependent on farming perceived greater challenges. We found that farmers' challenge perceptions regarding reduced yield and lack of time/labor significantly decreased as years of usage increased, implying that time and experience could dilute some challenges faced by farmers. Our findings indicate that social network use, technical guidance and economic subsidies are likely to address the concerns of farmers and facilitate their adoption of conservation practices.

26. Exploring barriers to the adoption of internet of things-based precision agriculture practices

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hundal, Gaganpreet Singh (author), Laux, Chad Matthew (author), Buckmaster, Dennis (author), Sutton, Mathias J (author), and Langemeier, Michael (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-09
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12835
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 1
Notes:: 16 pages, The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen & phosphorus), farm machinery fuel costs and decreasing labor productivity leading to non-optimized usage of farm inputs. Literature describes how sustainable practices such as profitability (return on investments), operational cost reduction, hazardous waste reduction, delivery performance and overall productivity might be adopted in the context of precision agriculture technologies (variable rate irrigation, variable rate fertilization, cloud-based analytics, and telematics for farm machinery navigation). The literature review describes low adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based precision agriculture technologies, such as variable rate fertilizer (39%), variable rate pesticide (8%), variable rate irrigation (4%), cloud-based data analytics (21%) and telematics (10%) amongst Midwestern row crop producers. Barriers to the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture technologies cited in the literature include cost effectiveness, power requirements, wireless communication range, data latency, data scalability, data storage, data processing and data interoperability. Therefore, this study focused on exploring and understanding decision-making variables related to barriers through three focus group interview sessions conducted with eighteen (n = 18) subject matter experts (SME) in IoT- based precision agriculture practices. Dependency relationships described between cost, data latency, data scalability, power consumption, communication range, type of wireless communication and precision agriculture application is one of the main findings. The results might inform precision agriculture practitioners, producers and other stakeholders about variables related to technical and operational barriers for the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture practices.

27. ‘They convert, I also convert’: the neighborhood effects and tea farmers' intention to convert to organic farming

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Vu Hong, Van (author), Yoon, Heo (author), and Nguyen, Khanh Doanh (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-17
Published:: England: Cambridge University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12836
Journal Title:: Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 13pgs, This study aims to analyze the influence of neighborhood effects (NE) on tea farmers' intention to convert from traditional to organic farming in the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam. It differs from previous studies in two aspects. First, we combine the theory of planned behavior and the theory of herd behavior to explain farmers' intention to convert from traditional to organic farming, focusing on the impact of the NE. Secondly, to measure NE, we use a combination of questionnaires and methods of measuring herd behavior by McCartney and Shah. Using the generalized structural equation modeling and data collected from 263 tea farmers in Thai Nguyen, we found that NE has a positive and direct significant effect on farmers' intention to convert to organic tea production in the case where neighbors both live nearby and have a close relationship with the subject. In addition, it indirectly impacts farmers' conversion intention through attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavior control. To encourage tea farmers to convert to organic farming, policymakers and extension workers should take advantage of the NE to increase farmers' confidence about the benefits and the possibility of successful organic farming.

28. Contextual realities and poverty traps: why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Chaudhary, A. (author), Timsina, P. (author), Karki, E. (author), Sharma, A. (author), Suri, B. (author), Sharma , R. (author), and Brown, B. (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-20
Published:: England: Cambridge University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12837
Journal Title:: Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 10pgs, Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them.

29. Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dorr, Erica (author), Hawes, Jason K. (author), Goldstein, Benjamin (author), Fargue-Lelièvre, Agnèsa (author), Fox-Kämper, Runrid Cohen, (author), Specht, Kathrind (author), Fedeńczak, Konstancja (author), Caputo, Silvio (author), Cohen, Nevin (author), Poniży, Lidiae (author), Schoen, Victoria (author), Górecki, Tomaszi (author), Newell, Joshua P. (author), Jean-Soro, Liliane (author), and Grard, Baptiste (author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-01
Published:: United States: Springer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12838
Journal Title:: Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 17pgs, There is a lack of data on resources used and food produced at urban farms. This hampers attempts to quantify the environmental impacts of urban agriculture or craft policies for sustainable food production in cities. To address this gap, we used a citizen science approach to collect data from 72 urban agriculture sites, representing three types of spaces (urban farms, collective gardens, individual gardens), in five countries (France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, and United States). We answered three key questions about urban agriculture with this unprecedented dataset: (1) What are its land, water, nutrient, and energy demands? (2) How productive is it relative to conventional agriculture and across types of farms? and (3) What are its contributions to local biodiversity? We found that participant farms used dozens of inputs, most of which were organic (e.g., manure for fertilizers). Farms required on average 71.6 L of irrigation water, 5.5 L of compost, and 0.53 m2 of land per kilogram of harvested food. Irrigation was lower in individual gardens and higher in sites using drip irrigation. While extremely variable, yields at well-managed urban farms can exceed those of conventional counterparts. Although farm type did not predict yield, our cluster analysis demonstrated that individually managed leisure gardens had lower yields than other farms and gardens. Farms in our sample contributed significantly to local biodiversity, with an average of 20 different crops per farm not including ornamental plants. Aside from clarifying important trends in resource use at urban farms using a robust and open dataset, this study also raises numerous questions about how crop selection and growing practices influence the environmental impacts of growing food in cities. We conclude with a research agenda to tackle these and other pressing questions on resource use at urban farms.

30. Challenges to promote sustainability in urban agriculture models: a review

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Vigne Bennedetti, Luiza (author), Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Paulo (author), Lamano Ferreira, Maurício (author), and Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-24
Published:: Netherlands: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12839
Journal Title:: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Journal Title Details:: Volume 20, Issue 3
Notes:: 14pgs, Urban agriculture (UA) can be used as an action to promote sustainability in cities and inform public health policies for urban populations. Despite this growing recognition, its implementation still presents challenges in countries in the Global North and Global South. Background: In this context, this systematic review aims to identify the development of frameworks for the implementation of UA as a sustainable action and its main opportunities and shortcomings in meeting urban socio-environmental demands. Methods: In this review, using the PRISMA protocol, we evaluated 26 studies on the interplay between UA and sustainability surveyed on the Web of Science to provide an overview of the state of the art. Conclusions: In summary, it was possible to identify many key challenges in UA adoption, which regard air and soil contamination, availability of green areas, layout of urban infrastructure, food distribution, among others. Due to numerous socio-economic and environmental contextual factors in cities, especially when comparing realities of the Global North and Global South, there is a need to develop a model that can be adaptable to these different contexts. Thus, it is recognized that the concept of sustainability does not present a universal understanding and that in its search it could be argued that one of the most important gaps is still to address social issues in relation to environmental ones.

31. Negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic and pork price fluctuations: a study on spatial spillover effect and mechanism

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ma, Chi (author), Tao, Jianping (author), Tan, Caifeng (author), Liu, Wei (author), and Li, Xia (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-11
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12862
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N.3
Notes:: 23 pages, As the media have continued to pay increasing attention to pig epidemic events, some local pig epidemic events may have a large degree of negative impact on the pork market and the whole pig industry chain, leading to pork price fluctuations. Strengthening pig epidemic control, monitoring media reporting sentiment, and stabilizing pork price fluctuations are important measures to improve the economy and people’s livelihood. This paper sets out to identify the relationship between the negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic and the market risk of pork prices within a setting with pig epidemic risk. Based on the provincial panel data of China from January 2011 to December 2022, this paper uses the spatial panel Durbin model to investigate the impact of negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic on pork price fluctuations from the perspective of local and spillover effects, and further discusses the mechanism of consumer sentiment. The empirical results show that: (1) The negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic significantly exacerbates pork price fluctuations, and there is a single threshold effect, which is weakened after crossing the threshold value. (2) The negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic has a significant positive spillover effect on pork price fluctuations, showing the characteristics of “being a neighbor”. The spatial spillover effect shows a significant spatial attenuation feature and an inverted U-shaped change with the inflection point at 1400 km. (3) The effect is related to the heterogeneity of media reputation. The local aggravation effect of local media’s negative sentiment on pork price fluctuations is greater than that of central media and information network platforms. In terms of the spatial spillover effect, the negative sentiment of the information network platforms has the strongest effect on the aggravation of pork price fluctuations in neighboring regions. (4) The mechanism study finds that the negative media sentiment about the pig epidemic positively affects pork price fluctuations through the path of “consumer sentiment”. Therefore, this research recommends that the government department should strengthen the supervision of media sentiment about the pig epidemic and reasonably guide consumer sentiment to stabilize the pork market.

32. The Role of Smallholder Farming on Rural Household Dietary Diversity

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hlatshwayo, Simphiwe Innocentia (author), Slotow, Rob (author), and Ngidi, Mjabuliseni Simon Cloapas (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-28
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12863
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N. 3
Notes:: 16 pages, The importance of smallholder farming is increasingly recognized in rural areas where increased crop productivity and market participation can effectively improve their dietary diversity and nutrition quality. However, rural households are still faced with severe food insecurity and malnutrition. The study sought to assess the role of smallholder farming in crop productivity and market access on rural household dietary diversity. The secondary data were collected using a quantitative research method, and 1520 participants were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. The descriptive results showed that cereals were the most (98%) consumed food group, while vegetables and fruits were the least consumed food groups, at 37% and 23%, respectively. The results from the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) showed that 57% of smallholder farmers consumed highly diverse diets (more or equal to six food groups), whereas 25% and 18% of smallholder farmers consumed medium dietary diversity (four to five food groups) and low diverse diets (less or equal to three food groups), respectively. The findings from the Conditional Mixed Process (CMP) and Poisson endogenous treatment effect models showed that household size, ownership of livestock, wealth index, and involvement in crop production positively influenced household dietary diversity. On the other hand, output and access to market information showed a negative effect. Social grants had contradicting effects: they had a negative impact on the HDDS received from crop productivity while they had a positive effect on the HDDS from market participation. Providing different ways smallholder farmers can use their funds effectively can help improve household dietary diversity and nutrition quality. The study recommended that more workshops and training be conducted that cover all the sustainable production systems that smallholder farmers can undertake to produce different food groups. These will raise awareness among smallholder farmers about the requirements for balanced diets for food and nutrition security.

33. The effect of information acquisition ability on farmers’ agricultural productive service behavior: an empirical analysis of corn farmers in northeast China

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Yue, Shoumin (author), Xue, Ying (author), and Wang, Kangkang (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-27
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12864
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N.3
Notes:: 26 pages, Agricultural productive services are an important means to achieve effective allocation of regional resources and play an important role in ensuring food security and improving farmers’ welfare. However, the development process of agricultural productive services still faces problems such as large differences in service levels in different segments and low participation rates in the full service. In order to investigate the influential paths of the low participation rate of farmers in the full-service process, this study takes maize farmers in northeast China as the research object. Based on 937 survey data from six cities in three northeastern provinces, we used the Item Response Theory (IRT) model to measure farmers’ information acquisition ability and constructed the Heckman two-stage model and the IV-Heckman model to analyze the logical framework of “information acquisition ability—farmers’ choice of productive agricultural services”. The main findings are as follows: firstly, the more channels there are, the stronger the farmers’ channel internalities; the higher the degree of channel differentiation, the stronger the farmers’ channel internalities. Second, after addressing the sample selection bias and endogeneity, there is a small rise in the facilitation effect of information acquisition ability on farmers’ productive agricultural service behavior. Third, this facilitation effect is achieved through farmers’ perceived usefulness of productive agricultural services, and the mediating effect of perceived ease of use is not significant. Therefore, fostering farmers’ self-perceptions and optimizing information delivery strategies are effective ways to promote farmers’ choice of agricultural productive services and to facilitate the modernization of Chinese agriculture. In general, this study helps to reveal the theoretical mechanism of farmers’ information asymmetry, and provides empirical evidence for how to promote the development of agricultural productive services.

34. Opportunities and challenges for cover cropping in sustainable agriculture systems in southern australia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nordblom, Thomas (author), Gurusinghe, Saliya (author), Erbacher, Andrew (author), and Weston, Leslie A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-15
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12865
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N.3
Notes:: 17 pages, Southern Australian farming systems operate predominantly under Mediterranean climatic conditions, which limit the choice of cover crops suitable for enhancement of ground cover and soil moisture retention, erosion control, atmospheric soil nitrogen (N) fixation, and weed suppression between cash crop rotations. Given that the successful establishment of cover crops is climate-driven and also influenced by edaphic factors such as soil pH and salinity, there has been increased interest by southern Australian producers in identifying potential cover crop species well adapted to specific Australian farming systems, which provide vital ecosystem services and sustainable economic benefits through the improvement of soil properties. This review summarises recent findings on cover crop inclusion in diverse farming systems in southern Australia, including continuous and mixed broadacre cropping as well as viticulture and horticulture systems, to identify opportunities and limitations related to their use. Cover crop inclusion in viticulture and pasture systems with lower moisture stress was observed to benefit the subsequent cash crop through enhanced production potential. Long-term, multi-site field experimentation incorporating summer cover crops in winter crop rotations showed that cover crops enhanced ground cover and soil water infiltration in some locations across southern Australia while sometimes increasing winter crop yield, suggesting that soil type and regional climatic conditions greatly influenced the delivery of multiple cover crop benefits. Collectively, these studies have suggested a need for longer-term field evaluations using multiple cover crop species and investigations of termination options under varying environmental and soil conditions to better quantify the legacy effects of cover crops.

35. Q&A: Documenting the forgotten history of black-owned farms through mixed media art

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Slepyan, Anya (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-17
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12875
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 10 pgs, Artist Syd Carpenter uses clay to tell the stories of the Black farmers and gardeners who have shaped the course of agriculture in the United States.

36. Commentary: chronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Thompson, Jonathan (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-16
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12876
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 3pgs, Oil and gas wells left unattended pose an environmental danger and weigh heavily on tax payers’ pockets. The federal accountability system overseeing the companies involved needs a complete overhaul.

37. Maine leaders discuss whether public broadband investments should support national private providers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Campbell, Carolyn (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-20
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12877
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 5pgs, Millions of Maine’s fiber dollars is going to a mix of government entities, regional internet service providers, and large, out-of-state companies. Some worry these national companies have not worked well with communities in the past. Others say the investments should be evaluated on what they deliver, not who gets the money.

38. Resurrection swamp, the

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Slepyan, Anya (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-02
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12880
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 4pgs, A wetland contaminated by industrial waste is slowly coming back to life. Nature’s tenacity found a powerful ally in a kayak tours operator and her many volunteers.

39. Wind farms deliver economic jolt to rural middle America

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Henderson, Tim (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-24
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12881
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 5pgs, Wind farms boosted seven of 10 counties with nation’s largest GDP increases.

40. Meta ad ban hurts hemp entrepreneurs

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Matloff, Judith (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-09
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12883
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 7pgs, Hemp growers say the social media giant’s advertising ban on certain products is stymying the nascent industry, with “incalculable” potential losses.

41. New solar panels allow farmers to see the light

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nitta, Naoki (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-16
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12884
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 11pgs, Researchers harness sunlight to harvest energy and food together, utilizing the full spectrum of light to improve outputs.

42. Meet the farmer helping black Kentuckians return to their agricultural roots

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Magyarics, Kelly (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-12
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12885
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 9pgs, The initiatives of one burgeoning social enterprise give Black-owned farms a platform while connecting them to a wider swath of locals and visitors.

43. Rise of virtual farmers markets, the

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Borts-Kuperman, Leah (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-31
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12887
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 10pgs, Why farmers are increasingly banding together to take their products online, targeting consumers directly without the fuss of a physical market

44. new egg co-operative has hatched in the western U.S., a

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Campbell, Lindsay (author)
Format:: Online article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-17
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12889
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 12pgs, ProEgg members are hopeful their model can plug up holes in the supply chain contributing to egg scarcity and sticker shock.

45. Farming by Committee: How We Organize Our Agroforestry Co-op

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Brownlow, Benjamin (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-06-26
Published:: USA: modern farmer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12923

46. Morrow, The

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cole, Katie (author), Buhrow, Brett (author), Wunderlich, Erin (author), McMillan, Lauren (author), Charles, Olivia (author), Petry, Eliza (author), Friedman, Sydney (author), Dattner, Elizabeth (author), Johannes, Alex (author), Grimes, Josh (author), McCormick, Brodee (author), McGreal, Rachel (author), Talbert, Taylor (author), Wegeng, Sophia (author), Rosch, David (author), Knapp, Katie (author), Meghrian, Sarah (author), Johnson, Erica (author), and Tester, Claire (author)
Format:: Magazine
Publication Date:: 2023-07-14
Published:: USA
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12924
Journal Title Details:: V.2, N.1
Notes:: 33 pages

47. Watching Grass Grow...From Space

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Beck, Lena (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-07-31
Published:: USA: modern farmer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12925
Notes:: 7 pages

48. USDA unveils cutting-edge map that shows planted U.S. commodities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kim, Nancy (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-08-03
Published:: USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12926
Notes:: 3 pages

49. Impact of climate change on sustainable pastoral livelihoods in Loima Sub-County, Turkana County, Kenya

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Imana, C.A. (author) and Zenda, M. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-05-06
Published:: South Africa: African Journals Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12927
Journal Title:: South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 51, N.1
Notes:: 21 pages, Climate change and variability have adversely affected communities’ pastoral livelihoods in Kenya. The study aimed to investigate sustaining pastoral livelihoods in a changing climate in Loima Sub-County, Turkana County, Kenya. A total of 59 pastoralists were interviewed using a questionnaire. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software Version 22. SPSS employed descriptive statistical techniques like frequencies, percentages, cross-tabulations and proportions, means, and standard deviation. Pie charts, graphs, figures, and tables were used to present the data analysis output. Climate has been observed to vary continuously by pastoralists. Climate hazards mostly reported were livestock diseases and the frequency of droughts. The findings also indicated that livestock keepers preferred to graze their livestock on mountains/hills. Pasture and water availability and security determine the pattern of livestock movement. Pastoralists adopted various strategies to cope with climatic changes. Some of these strategies included diverse utilisation of livestock products, controlled grazing, herd diversification, and labour distribution among household members. In conclusion, climatic change and variability effects on the livelihoods of the pastoralists are evident. However, they have diversified ways of adapting and coping with these catastrophes to sustain themselves. To avert the effects of climate change, Turkana agriculture extension officers should focus on value addition to livestock products, provision of livestock insurance schemes, veterinary services, and livestock disease surveillance. Furthermore, agriculture extension needs to develop and enforce livestock policies and develop appropriate contingency plans. Among the policies recommended are- the management of grazing areas, regulations on migratory routes, and rules governing the use of water sources.

50. The future of extension programming post-pandemic: the need for diverse approaches

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Zimbroff, Andrew (author)
Format:: Commentary
Publication Date:: 2023-08-22
Published:: USA: Clemson University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12928
Journal Title:: Journal of Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 61, N.2
Notes:: 4 pages, The Covid-19 pandemic has been highly disruptive to Extension programming. Online programming has emerged as one of the primary approaches for maintaining engagement with the communities and populations Extension serves. Some have even suggested that it might become the default programming method, even after it is safe to return to in-person programming. In this commentary, I discuss some of the current limitations and challenges inherent in online-only programming -- ones that are often overlooked by Extension personnel. Further, I discuss key factors that Extension personnel should take into account when considering online programming for any future professional efforts.

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