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    3. Farm Journal Media buys Kiplinger Agriculture Letter: deal includes 6,000-paid subscription newsletter

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mickey, Bill (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11254
    Journal Title:
    Folio
    Notes:
    October 30 issue via online. 2 pages., Brief description of the bi-weekly newsletter published continuously since 1929.

    4. Farm Journal Media leaves Philadelphia after 139 years: agriculture media company centralizes in Kansas City, closer to its readers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Peterson, Becky (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11251
    Journal Title:
    Folio
    Notes:
    June 26 issue via online. 3 pages., Article briefly summarizes the development of this pioneering agricultural journal, founded in 1877 as a regional agriculture magazine for farmers near Philadelphia." The move follows the company's acquisition of Vance Publishing Corporation's agriculture and produce assets.

    8. From barbarian farmers to yeoman consumers: Curtis Publishing Company and the search for rural America, 1910-1930

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ward, Douglas B. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24464
    Journal Title:
    American Journalism
    Journal Title Details:
    22(4): 47-67
    Notes:
    Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.

    9. Lessiter Publications buys Farm Journal title: move consolidates competing titles

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rondon, Michael (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: D11252
    Journal Title:
    Folio
    Notes:
    July 23 issue via online. 2 pages., Lessiter Publications announces its purchase of assets of Implement and Tractor magazine from Farm Journal Media