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2. All about Indiana agriculture, all the time
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Behrens, Heather (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2006-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26567
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(5): 137A
3. An Exploratory Study of Farmers' View on Aquaculture Development in Indiana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brown, Paul (author), Quagrainie, Kwamena (author), and Hart, Steven (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27662
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 46, No. 2
- Notes:
- Online access
4. Breakers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- fact sheet
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-Co V1.14; Folder: V1.14.B.037 Document Number: D03322
- Journal Title:
- 1
- Journal Title Details:
- 1
- Notes:
- 4 pgs, Volume One Number One Collection; James F. Evans Collection
5. Exploring barriers to the adoption of internet of things-based precision agriculture practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hundal, Gaganpreet Singh (author), Laux, Chad Matthew (author), Buckmaster, Dennis (author), Sutton, Mathias J (author), and Langemeier, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-09
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12835
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 16 pages, The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen & phosphorus), farm machinery fuel costs and decreasing labor productivity leading to non-optimized usage of farm inputs. Literature describes how sustainable practices such as profitability (return on investments), operational cost reduction, hazardous waste reduction, delivery performance and overall productivity might be adopted in the context of precision agriculture technologies (variable rate irrigation, variable rate fertilization, cloud-based analytics, and telematics for farm machinery navigation). The literature review describes low adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based precision agriculture technologies, such as variable rate fertilizer (39%), variable rate pesticide (8%), variable rate irrigation (4%), cloud-based data analytics (21%) and telematics (10%) amongst Midwestern row crop producers. Barriers to the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture technologies cited in the literature include cost effectiveness, power requirements, wireless communication range, data latency, data scalability, data storage, data processing and data interoperability. Therefore, this study focused on exploring and understanding decision-making variables related to barriers through three focus group interview sessions conducted with eighteen (n = 18) subject matter experts (SME) in IoT- based precision agriculture practices. Dependency relationships described between cost, data latency, data scalability, power consumption, communication range, type of wireless communication and precision agriculture application is one of the main findings. The results might inform precision agriculture practitioners, producers and other stakeholders about variables related to technical and operational barriers for the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture practices.
6. Extension communication with the Indiana FACTS system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jones, Don D. (author), Nay, Earle (author), Parsons, Samual D. (author), and Nay: System Manager, Agricultural Data Network; Jones: Associate Professor, Purdue University; Parsons: Extension Agricultural Engineer, Purdue University
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05736
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the 1985 Summer Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers; 1985 June 23 - 26; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, St. Joseph, MI : The American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1985. 23 p. (American Society of Agricultural Engineers Microfiche Collection. Paper no. 85-5018), FACTS is a distributed computer network serving the Indiana Cooperative Extension Service. Many application programs have been developed for the system, in addition to electronic mail features. The concepts, hardware, and software used to implement the FACTS network are presented. regional audience requires good organization, cooperative authors, broadcast quality equipment and experienced technical assistants. Four segments,
7. Factors affecting farmers' hedging decisions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brorsen, B. Wade (author), Shapiro, B.I. (author), and Purdue University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988-07
- Published:
- USA: Columbus, OH : Ohio State University.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05559
- Journal Title:
- North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (2) : 145-153.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 88053739
8. Farmer beliefs about climate change and carbon sequestration incentives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gramig, Benjamin M. (author), Barnard, Jessa M. (author), Prokopy, Linda S. (author), and Purdue Univ, Dept Agr Econ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Purdue Univ, Dept Forestry & Nat Resources, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- USA: Inter-Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08225
- Journal Title:
- Climate Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (2): 157-167
9. Farmers' selection of farm machinery dealers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kohls, R. L. (author), Stucky, R. L. (author), and Gifford, J. I. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1957-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07082
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(4) : 446-450
10. Globalization amid the cornfields: teaching sustainable practices in the American Midwest
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Salvo, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-05
- Published:
- USA: ERIC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10238
- Journal Title:
- The Writing Instructor
- Notes:
- 13 pages., The original website no longer has a copy of the article. Access is available through ERIC database. ERIC Number: EJ890607, Via online source., This article discusses three sites that disrupt accustomed expectations and roles for technical communication. These sites include an agricultural processing site that is requesting tax abatements in exchange for decreased emissions so that it can remain competitive in the global market. The second is also an agricultural manufacturing site that remains globally competitive by increasing efficiencies and expanding the range of products made at the site. Finally, the essay discusses a manufacturing facility that takes finished products-automobiles-and remanufactures them for a niche market of users. Each of these Midwestern sites is globally competitive and challenges expectations for high technology work. Taken together, they gesture toward new definitions of work, in new postindustrial context, and offer insight for defining technical communication in the postindustrial age. The remaining challenge, for scholars and teachers, is to articulate emerging literacy practices supporting postindustrial manufacturing, and to participate in the knowledge management that supports innovation. Here, each site takes something that would have previously been considered either finished product or waste and rearticulates it as an ingredient in a new product. At the least, technical communicators will need to learn to document such organization's innovation and change. At best, such change invites technical communicators, acting as knowledge managers, to articulate opportunities for innovation. Research, a traditional strength of technical writing preparation, allows organizations to better prepare and understand change, turning disruption into opportunity. Postindustrial business practices are no longer the work of futurists, but the reality and structure of the workplace today. Each work site described in this article presents opportunities for basic research into emerging workplaces in need of the expertise of technical and professional writers; each is an example and potential model for knowledge work.