Page 53 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of Progress Report 120, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1962. 16 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08613
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. New York Agricultural College, Cornell University, Ithaca. Extension Bulletin 864. 62 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08618
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report. College of Agriculture, Extension Service, Iowa State College, Ames. 27 pages., Examined farmer viewing and views of a television series, "One hundred bushels of corn a reality."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08627
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Hal R. Taylor Collection., Summary of research report (Bulletin 22). Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 48 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08629
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of thesis research for the master of arts degree, University of Maryland, College Park. 78 pages., Comparison of farmers who attend and do not attend extension meetings.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08635
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, University Park. Bulletin 577. 30 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08639
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan. Technical Bulletin 83. 31 pages.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08918
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Pages 15-16 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - January to June 1951, Extension Service Circular 474, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1951. Summary of findings from a study, Agricultural Extension, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 1951. 39 pages.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08924
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Page 7 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - July to December 1948, Extension Service Circular 456, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. December 1948. Summary of publication from Agriculture College Extension, University of Maine, Orono. 1948. 6 pages.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08940
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Page 9 in Grace Gallup and Lucinda Crile, Bibliography on Extension Research, November 1943-1948. Library List No. 48. USDA Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. U.S. Brief description of a research study by the U.S. Extension Service in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 1947. 109 pages.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08941
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Page 9 in Grace Gallup and Lucinda Crile, Bibliography on Extension Research, November 1943-1948. Library List No. 48. USDA Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. U.S. Brief description of Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Special Bulletin 331, Michigan State College, East Lansing. 1944. 39 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10776
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal magazine, April 1, 1964. Claude W. Gifford Collection. 2 pages., Summarizes findings of a survey through a convenience sample of midwestern farmers by Fletcher, Wessel and Enright Advertising Agency, St. Joseph, Missouri. Invited information about biggest faults of farm advertising, farm shows attended, and most helpful sources of information for buying automated feeding system or grain storage and handling system.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11097
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Online from ACES News, University of Illinois. 2 pages., Findings of a survey among farmers in Wisconsin suggested that respondents were open to receiving agricultural health and safety information from any source. Preferred methods of delivery: magazines and newspapers, face-to-face communication. Least preferred: social media, the internet and phone support lines.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11675
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2 pages., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly., Summary of research by The Sustainability Consortium of Farm Journal among more than 400 U.S. farmers in more than 40 states. The survey invited their perspectives on sharing data about their production practices with downstream supply chain organizations, such as food companies and retailers. Findings suggested that growers value data collection, the environment, and conservation agriculture practices on their farmers, but hold concerns about sharing farm data.
USA: College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12123
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Via online research summary. 4 pages., Summary of a research project among rural and urban residents in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed in central Illinois to learn how much people care about local water quality, fish populations, and algae blooms, and how much they care about meeting Environmental Protection Agency targets which benefit the Gulf of Mexico. Responses indicated that rural and urban residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution and are willing to pay for environmental improvements.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12188
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Online via AgriMarketing Update. 2 pages., Summary of results from a Farm Journal Pulse Poll asking farmers what farm technology they wish to invest in first if they were to win the lottery. The top choice was variable-rate application technology with 31% of the responses (out of a total of 577 farmers). Four other technologies ranked lower.
