The three sources that best discriminate adoption behavior of irrigators are private agricultural consulting firms, university research stations and trade magazines.
Kloppenburg, Jack, Jr. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06474
James F. Evans Collection, As a result of environmental and agrarian activism and of academic critique, a substantial amount of space is available now for moving agricultural technoscience onto new trajectories. A critical rural sociology has played a key role in pushing forward the deconstructive project that has been instrumental in creating this space. And rural sociologists can be active agents in the reconstruction of the alternative science that must emerge from "actually existing" science and that must be developed if there is to be a truly alternative agriculture. But to be effective in this effort we need to enlarge not only the canon of our colleagues in the natural sciences, but our own canon as well. This article suggests that the theoretical resources for such reconstruction are available in contemporary sociological and feminist interpretations of science. Material resources for the reconstruction of a "successor science" are to be found in the "local knowledge" that is continually produced and reproduced by farmers and agricultural workers. Articulations and complementarities between theoretical resources are suggested and potentially productive research areas are outlined. (original)
Bergstrom, John C. (author), Randall, Alan (author), Stoll, John R. (author), and Bergstrom: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia; Stoll: Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University; Randall: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-08
Published:
USA: Ames, IA : American Agricultural Economics Association.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06814
AGRICOLA IND 90050733, A conceptual model is developed which provides insight into how information affects willingness to pay for environmental commodities. A refutable hypothesis of the effects of a specific information type on the magnitude of willingness to pay for an environmental commodity is developed. This hypothesis is tested using a contingent valuation method experiment. Results indicate that information affects willingness to pay in a theoretically plausible manner. The results support the contention that information is important for accurate environmental commodity consumer valuations.
Reisner, Ann (author), Walter, Gerry (author), and Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04624
Alison, Kathleen I. (author), Pettit, John J. (author), and Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA; Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-09
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06690
Notes:
Kathleen I. Alison Collection, Arlington, VA : Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East. 1989. 113 p. (ISPAN Report No. 15)
Alison, Kathleen I. (author), Hahn-Rollins, Dee (author), and Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA; Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-05
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06691
Notes:
Kathleen I. Alison Collection, Arlington, VA : Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East. 1989. 104 p. (ISPAN Report No. 17)
Alison, Kathleen I. (author), Edwards, Daniel B. (author), and Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA; Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East, Arlington, VA
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-02
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06689
Notes:
Kathleen I. Alison Collection, Arlington, VA : Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East. 1989. 62 p. (ISPAN Report No. 13)
Chamala, Shankariah (author), Keith, K.J. (author), and Keith: Department of Primary Industries, Indooroopilly; Chamala: Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland, Australia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03305
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; See C03269 for original, In: Communication in agriculture : an international conference; 1989 January 30 - February 3; University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia. Armidale, Australia : University of New England, 1989. volume 2, p. 59
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07126
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Report of research completed during the past year. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prepared for NCR-90 meeting, Oct. 26-28, 1988. Mimeograph, 1988. p. 4-5
This article explores the role of traditional objectivity in newspaper coverage of the nomination in Alaska of a socialist commissioner of environmental conservation and the subsequent "framing" of public discussion.
Hickman, John (author / Extension Specialist, Soil and Water Conservation, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS) and Extension Specialist, Soil and Water Conservation, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03034
Knight, Thomas O. (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station) and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03025
Boess, J. (author), Heineke, H.J. (author), and Niedersachsisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung, Hanover, FRG.
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06836
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 91055653, In: Knowledge based systems in agriculture : prospects for application : Frankfurt a. M., Bad Soden, June 19-22, 1988. Frankfurt am Main : Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft (DLG), 1988. p. 211-221.
AGRICOLA IND 90016243; Paper presented at the "Joint Conference of New England Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, Maine Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Atlantic International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society," March 6-8, 1985, Portland, Maine.
AGRICOLA IND 90016241; Paper presented at the "Joint Conference of New England Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, Maine Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Atlantic International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society," March 6-8, 1985, Portland, Maine.
Camboni, Silvana M. (author), Napier, Ted L. (author), Thraen, Cameron S. (author), and Napier: Professor of Development Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Camboni: Development Officer, Research Foundation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Thraen: Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986-03
Published:
USA: Ankeny, IA : Soil Conservation Society of America.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05292
Hoover, Herbert (author), West, Peter (author), Wirth, M.E. (author), and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02728
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Contains abstracts, preface, and summary only, Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service, 1986. 52 p. (ERS Staff Report, no. AGES 860815)
Bubolz, Thomas A. (author), Dahlgren, Robert B. (author), and Dahlgren: Iowa cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Bubolz: Department of Animal Ecology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06481
James F. Evans Collection, Adult Iowans who were members of national conservation-oriented organizations were far more politically active on hunting issues than were nonmembers. Further, only those members who read these organizations' publications were politically active. Among background variables, education and income were not associated with political activity, but males were more active than females; persons raised in small- and medium-sized town were more active than those raised on a farm or in a city; persons under 30 were the most active organization members; and persons who currently hunt were most politically active with hunting issues. Members of antihunting organizations were nearly as active as members of prohunting groups. Publications of national conservation-oriented organizations afford natural resource managers the opportunity to convey information to the group of politically active persons most likely to use such information to the manager's advantage. Finally, professional conservationists interested in promoting prohunting causes should be aware that organization members who are against hunting are as likely to be actively pursuing their beliefs as are their counterparts who are for hunting. (original)
Korsching, Peter F. (author), Nowak, Peter J. (author), and Nowak: Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Korsching: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
USA: Ankeny, IA : Soil Conservation Society of America.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05250
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23825
Notes:
Pages 214-237 in B.C.English, J.A. Maetzold and B.R. Holding (eds.), Future agricultural technology and resource conservation. Iowa State University Press, Ames.
Van Es, J.C. (author / Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois) and Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03425
Notes:
Phase II, In: English, Burton C.; Maetzold, James A.; Holding, Brian R.; and Heady, Earl O., eds. Future agricultural technology and resource conservation : proceedings of the RCA Symposium; 1982 December 5-9; Washington, D.C. Ames, IA : The Iowa State University Press, 1984. p. 238-253
Geisler, Charles E. (author), Martinson, Oscar B. (author), and Assistant Professor, Rural Sociology, Cornell University; Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00278
Hays, Robert G. (author / Professor, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL) and Professor, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04889
Notes:
In: Hays, Robert G. State science in Illinois : the scientific surveys, 1850-1978. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. p. 17-34
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23405
Notes:
Published for the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation of the Illinois Institute of Natural Resources. 257 pages., Features the history of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois State Water Survey and Illinois State Geological Survey.
Australia: Department of University Extension, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26764
Notes:
Report of 28 pages provided as CD in John P. Brien, "Research contributions in agricultural extension and communication," a thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Queensland., Analysis of an experimental adult education activity involving farmers in northern New South Wales. "The study concluded that, without a suitable research-extension linkage, the life of the project would be limited."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03047
Notes:
Brief summaries of research conducted by graduate students and faculty members in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin during 1967 and 1968. 16 pages.
USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
Notes:
Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
Freeman, Chester B. (author), Ward, William B. (author), Russell, Charles C. (author), and Spencer, John F. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1963-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03135
Notes:
Communication Research Bulletin 4, Department of Extension Teaching and Information, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca. 32 pages., Workers at a National Cash Register plant in Ithaca, New York, express need for information about subjects in which the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics are working.
Page 53 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of Progress Report 120, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1962. 16 pages.
Page 55 in Extension Circular 532, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1959, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for a master of science degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1959. 42 pages.
