Garland, Clark D. (author / Professor of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) and Agricultural Extension Service, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C04102
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: Smith, Deborah Takiff, ed. 1989 yearbook of agriculture : farm management - how to achieve your farm business goals. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1989. p. 237-240
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18740
Notes:
Pages 177-202 in Peggy F. Barlett (ed.), Agricultural decision making: anthropological contributions to rural development. Academic Press, New York, NY. 378 pages.l
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
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.
Presents "some of the challenges arising from the growing amounts of information available and exhausting the managements when defining the direction of future development of a company."
