Miller, Laura J. (author), Schwab, Charles V. (author), and Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07026
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1993. 17 p. (Paper presented at the 1993 International Agricultural Communicators in Education conference; 1993 May 8-12; Miami, FL)
Abbott, Eric A. (author / Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University) and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C04060
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1989. 14 p. paper presented at the NCR90 Communication Research Meeting; 1989 October 25; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
15 pages, Farmers are invited to tell stories about their farms, especially about their farm’s origin and history. However, some farm stories go untold, are uninvited, or become obscured, including stories of farm closures. With this case study, we invite journalists and academics to provide further opportunities for farmers to tell their own closure stories. Written by the farmer and her CSA member and friend, who researches farmer communication, this case study calls on farmers to tell their farm-closure stories in the complicated and robust ways such stories deserve. We draw on academic and public scholarship about farm closures and farmers’ disclosures to feature how one farmer decided to end her farm and farming career. We chronicle her decision-making process and her strategies to communicate the closure of her farm, as well as analyze themes from how audiences reacted to her news. We also offer a range of reasons for inviting such telling of complex closure stories.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07137
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Communication research in progress, Iowa State University. Presented to NCR-90 meeting, October 25-27, 1988. Mimeograph. [p. 6]
