Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D11558
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1 page., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Farm Journal, the parent company of The Packer, is enhancing its Produce Market Guide digital platform by merging it with its brand Produce Retailer, creating a combined brand called PMG."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06719
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Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, Missouri. 13 pages., This document consists of data pages involving comparative farm periodical circulation, readership, reader-perceived usefulness and circulation x farm income, plus circulation trends (1964-1981) for selected periodicals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin.
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.
