Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22514
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 44, page 2., Reports inquiries from publishers about state Farm Bureau organizations that are considering publishing periodicals that sell advertising. Only one is doing so now, according to this report (Hoosier Farmer in Indiana), but others are reviewing possibilities. Author concludes: "On account of the loyal support given to the farm organization movement by farm papers generally, it would appear that farm bureau officials should not look with favor on any plan which might place farm organizations in the light of competitors to farm papers."
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/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., "Its three major elements still hold the farmer's fate through their guidance of Congress; but faces, ideas change, solidarity is gone."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09587
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Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Speech to the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership, University of Missouri, Columbia. 15 pages., Suggests that the answer is "...nobody. The farmer, as always, is his own man."
