King, David A. (author), Maier, Dirk E. (author), Petritz, David C. (author), and Cooperative Extension Service, Purdue University, West Lafayatte, IN
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08043
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: The Information Age: what it means for extension and its constituents. Columbia, MO: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Missouri, 1994. (Proceedings of a North Central Region Extension workshop for marketing and management specialists, May 24-26, 1994, St. Louis, MO.) p. 55-58.
Alison, Kathleen (author), Bentz, Robert P. (author), and Woods, John L. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1987-07
Published:
Egypt
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08027
Notes:
john L. Woods Collection, Draft report to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the U. S. Agency for International Development. 100 pages. File also contains a related trip report, several charts, a survey questionnaire and other items.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08931
Notes:
Page 8 in Grace Gallup and Lucinda Crile, Bibliography on Extension Research, November 1943-1948. Library List No. 48. USDA Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1949. Digest of a master's thesis, Washington University, Washington, D.C. Report of an MS thesis, Agricultural Extension, Agriculture College, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 1947. 54 pages..
Describes how the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture might serve as a model for improving the dissemination of education research and development results through the U.S. Department of Education. Author lists various features of CES that might be replicated and others that should be avoided.
Idoine, Karen (author), Van Driesche, R.G. (author), and Van Dricsche: Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Idoine: Franklin County Cooperative Extension, Greenfield, MA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989-10
Published:
USA: Berkeley, CA : Bio-Integral Resource Center.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06711
9 pages., via online journal., Mobile apps such as social media have friendly attributes and unbiased usage across gender and age; and have become one of the most promising channels for dissemination of agricultural information. The current sources of agricultural information available to farmers do not allow a two-way flow of information and instant feedback. The information disseminated using such channels are generally not customized to specific farmers’ needs. Despite the availability of various mobile apps providing agricultural information, the adoption rate is too minimal. The aim of this study was to determine the usability attributes of social media influencing its adoption and use. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 149 respondents. The respondents were selected through purposive sampling technique from a population comprising of farmers, extension staff, lecturers and students enrolled in agricultural courses participating in the Farm Attachment Program of Egerton University. Data collected was analysed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) and probit regression was used to analyse expected probability of social media adoption. The findings indicate that the main usability attributes of social media are Ease of use, usefulness, credibility, flexibility and Internet availability. Mobile apps being used to disseminate agricultural information should incorporate some of the usability attributes that have significantly influenced the adoption and use of social media to enhance its uptake and use.
Pages 66-67 in Review of Extension Research, January through December 1957. Summary of a thesis for the Master of Science degree at Iowa State College, Ames. 1957. 85 pages.
