Retrieved online via LexisNexis Academic, 2 pages., Obituary of former director, Division of Information Programs, Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington,D.C. Helped form the Association of Agricultural College Editors (ACE).
Howard, Joseph H. (author / Director, National Agricultural Library, USDA)
Format:
summary report
Publication Date:
1987-02
Published:
USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10771
Notes:
See this report in Document C02958. 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/, Page46 in Biotechnology: the challenge - proceedings of the USDA Biotechnology Challenge Forum, Washington, D.C., February 5-6, 1987. 56 pages.
Heimerl, James R. (author / Vice President, National Pork Producers Council)
Format:
Testimony
Publication Date:
2016-04-28
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11027
Notes:
Comments in the February 29, 2016 Federal Register, pages 10132-10138. 2 pages., Comments on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council championing the proposed revisions providing market participants with more specific information about the buyer and seller interactions and better representing the market in which producers function. "Overall, these changes represent a positive step forward in allowing information to flow throughout the marketplace and among participants."
29 pages., via online journal., Managers’ emotions play a significant role in natural resource decision-making processes relative to conflict. Although conflict and emotion are present in many aspects of most resource managers’
careers, the role of the primary decision maker’s emotions in natural
resources decision-making processes is neither well understood, nor well
documented. The ideas presented in this article derive from a literature
review and an independent four-year qualitative study of the USDA
Forest Service. The major finding of the study was that natural resources managers’ emotions do indeed have an influence on their decisionmaking processes and in conflict situations. Furthermore, communication is a component of decision making; conflict is a component of decision
making; and communication is a component of conflict. The authors review the literature in neuroscience and psychology on emotion and conflict. We explain how this information is important to any decision making process, and then relate emotions and decision making to conflict at the USDA FS. We offer insights and suggestions as to how managers
Page 77 in Extension Circular 532, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1959, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of research report by the Information Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 1959. 46 pages.
