Block, John (author / U.S. Secretary of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1984-06-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10742
Notes:
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/, Speech written for presentation to the first Agricultural Communicators Congress, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1984. 8 pages., Author presents 12 features that he ascribes to the role, work, and impact of agricultural journalists and communicators. Among them: "you are national treasuries of this land of ours." He describes current issues facing agriculture and discusses elements of a 2018 farm bill to be developed.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09592
Notes:
Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Written while working with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute. 1 page, 12 responsibilities of those in the agricultural communicator role.
The OCIAC Update series is maintained in the Agricultural Communications Program records > "International" section > "OCIAC" file., Reviews the work of Robert E. Rhoades in articulating how the contributions of the agricultural anthropologist fit in with the contributions of other disciplines in the usual agricultural development project. Compares the anthropologist's contributions with those of the agricultural communicator.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06527
Notes:
Comments at the occasion of the Distinguished Service Award from the American Agricultural Editors' Association at the AAEA annual conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 7, 2012. 3 pages.
