Cites a Michigan State University study revealing that a small farm of less than 300 journal entries a year may be better off staying with a hand system of keeping records.
Montoya, Francisco G. (author), Gómez, Julio (author), Cama, Alejandro (author), Zapata-Sierra, Antonio (author), Martínez, Felipe (author), De La Cruz, José Luis (author), and Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2013-11
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07694
Janssen, Sander (author), Porter, Cheryl H. (author), Moore, Andrew D. (author), Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. (author), Foster, Ian (author), Jones, James W. (author), and Antle, John M. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016-11-10
Published:
International: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07790
2 pages, via online magazine archive, Several years ago, Farm Market iD saw that agribusinesses were struggling to use to the data and insights at their disposal to understand how they were performing in the market and needed modern-day data science to power decision-making. Given Farm Market iD's unique and powerful data and our ability to contextualize data to understand and interpret the agricultural market, we knew we had something valuable to offer.
13 pages, via Online Journal, This paper contributes to our understanding of farm data value chains with assistance from 54 semi-structured interviews and field notes from participant observations. Methodologically, it includes individuals, such as farmers, who hold well-known positionalities within digital agriculture spaces—platforms that include precision farming techniques, farm equipment built on machine learning architecture and algorithms, and robotics—while also including less visible elements and practices. The actors interviewed and materialities and performances observed thus came from spaces and places inhabited by, for example, farmers, crop scientists, statisticians, programmers, and senior leadership in firms located in the U.S. and Canada. The stability of “the” artifacts followed for this project proved challenging, which led to me rethinking how to approach the subject conceptually. The paper is animated by a posthumanist commitment, drawing heavily from assemblage thinking and critical data scholarship coming out of Science and Technology Studies. The argument’s understanding of “chains” therefore lies on an alternative conceptual plane relative to most commodity chain scholarship. To speak of a data value chain is to foreground an orchestrating set of relations among humans, non-humans, products, spaces, places, and practices. The paper’s principle contribution involves interrogating lock-in tendencies at different “points” along the digital farm platform assemblage while pushing for a varied understanding of governance depending on the roles of the actors and actants involved.
Pan, Shu-Chun (author), Wang, Xian-Fu (author), and Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.; Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
Format:
Journal article
Language:
English with French / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05203
This paper describes the present status and development of the Chinese agricultural documentation and information systems and the core role of the National AGRIS Center played in promoting the development of the systems. The emphasis has been placed in coordinating and establishing the agricultural databases, computer searching systems, information transmitting systems and international cooperations in China. It points out that the common strategic task facing all the developing countries in the establishment of national agricultural databases in each country and selectively contribute the valuable data to the international agricultural databases for information resources sharing of the world. Digitizing of Chinese characters for establishing the Chinese agricultural databases, the techniques of development and use in dealing the Chinese charactes as well as the technical line adopted for the construction of the Chinses agricultural databases have been also disucssed.
Elso, Sonia (author), Gutierrez, Haydee (author), and Elso: Institute of Agricultural Research, Central Library, Santiago, Chile; Gutierrez: University of Chile, Computation and Information Service, Santiago, Chile
Format:
Journal article
Language:
English with French / German / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
International: Wageningen, Netherlands : The Association.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05279
Bishop, Richard C. (author), Cochrane, Jeffrey A. (author), Poe, Gregory L. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06705
Notes:
AGRICOLA CAT 91949952; Contains Introduction only, [Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Economics], 1991. 36 p. (Agricultural Economics Staff Paper Series (Madison, WI); no. 325.)
electronic publishing, AGRICOLA IND 92047815; Presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, This paper reviews the current trends of journal publishing and the costs associated with it. The current electronic journal is described: who is creating; who is distributing and where it is going. Current publishers of electronic journals include commercial publishers such as Elsevier; universities such as Cornell and Carnegie Mellon; scientific societies such as the American Chemical Society and the American mathematical Society. The paper concludes with speculation on what is to come by the year 2000. (original)
Powers, R.D. (author / University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Journalism) and University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Journalism
Format:
Manual
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 27 Document Number: B02762
Notes:
Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Journalism, 1966. 53 p. (Bulletin 35)
Steele, Sara M. (author / Program Evaluation Specialist, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Program Evaluation Specialist, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05487
AgComm Teaching, The responsibility for a successful computer system belongs to the management, and managers need enough knowledge to choose the best system. Long-range perspective is important so the computer can expand with the operation. Important words are explained in the categories of software, hardware, and methods of getting computer power. Software is the series of instructions telling a computer what to do. An individual set of instructions is called a program. There are systems software and applications software. Applications software can be custom software, packaged, or modified. The hardware is the machinery that runs the software. The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer. Results of computer programs are stored on plastic disks. Permanent copies can be made by using a printer. A farmer can get computer power with an outside service or an in-house service.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02833
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents, Preface and Introduction only, Paris : Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1980. 97 p. (Development Centre Studies)
