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2. Ending Lacewing Acres: toward amplifying microperspectives on farm closure
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dubisar, Abby M. (author) and Slocum, Julia A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-08
- Published:
- USA: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12651
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Iss. 11, Vol. 4
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Farmers are invited to tell stories about their farms, especially about their farm’s origin and history. However, some farm stories go untold, are uninvited, or become obscured, including stories of farm closures. With this case study, we invite journalists and academics to provide further opportunities for farmers to tell their own closure stories. Written by the farmer and her CSA member and friend, who researches farmer communication, this case study calls on farmers to tell their farm-closure stories in the complicated and robust ways such stories deserve. We draw on academic and public scholarship about farm closures and farmers’ disclosures to feature how one farmer decided to end her farm and farming career. We chronicle her decision-making process and her strategies to communicate the closure of her farm, as well as analyze themes from how audiences reacted to her news. We also offer a range of reasons for inviting such telling of complex closure stories.
3. Farm Futures: The Farm Business Magazine
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Magazine
- Publication Date:
- 1985-11
- Published:
- USA: AgriData Resources Incorporated
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: A-Farm M RS.12; Folder: RS.12.F.056 Document Number: D03175
- Journal Title:
- 13
- Journal Title Details:
- 10
- Notes:
- 34 pgs; Cover is partially detaching, John Harvey Collection; Rare Serial Collection
4. Farm holidays: combining agricultural and recreation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Putzel, S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00590
- Journal Title:
- Agrologist
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(4): 20-21
- Notes:
- Phase 2
5. Improving the viability of new farmers' operations through the use of profit teams
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rangarajan, Anusuya (author), McCarthy, Kathleen (author), and Welch, Daniel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12322
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 57,n. 5
- Notes:
- 6 pages, Profit teams comprise multiple consultants engaged to support farmer decision making by holistically analyzing farm challenges. We tested the idea of using profit teams to help advanced beginning farmers, those who are beyond start-up but have been in business less than 10 years, address constraints to growing their businesses. These new entrepreneurs often have entered agriculture without a family farming history or a connection to Extension. We describe the processes of selecting farmers and administering teams, and we highlight significant improvements in quality of life, production, and profitability reported by 35 farmers. Our lessons learned may guide other educators and funders in developing profit teams for their beginning farmer clients.
6. Information required about the agribusiness complex for political decisions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Frank, W. (author / EEC, Brussels) and EEC, Brussels
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1982
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C00987
- Notes:
- In: Hanf, C-H; Schiefer, G.W. eds., Decision and information in agribusiness : proceedings of the Third Symposium of the European Association of Agricultural Economics. Kiel : Kieler Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk, 1982: 305-314
7. Insights into barriers and educational needs for farm succession programming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schlesser, Heather (author), Stuttgen, Sandra (author), Binversie, Liz (author), and Kirkpatrick, Joy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-28
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12406
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 59, Iss. 4
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Planning for farm succession is vital to the longevity of the farm business. To understand the challenges with succession planning, the University of Wisconsin - Division of Extension facilitated focus group meetings across the state. These authors classified the information from the focus groups into eight codes, and each code was further subdivided into themes. The codes included Financial, Communication, Control, Change, Fair vs. Equal, Delivery, and Support, Strategies, and Educational Needs. University of Wisconsin Division of Extension Agriculture Educators utilized the information obtained from the focus groups to create a workbook that provides practical assistance when working with families planning a farm succession.
8. Major trends in rural America
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Donohue, George A. (author / University of Minnesota) and University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1986
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 61 Document Number: C01913
- Journal Title:
- Sociology of Rural life
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (4) : 1, 2, 7
9. The determinants of beginning farm success
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Key, Nigel (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-14
- Published:
- UK: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12868
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 54, Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 25 pages, Using linked data from multiple years of the U.S. Census of Agriculture, this study identifies farm and operator characteristics associated with beginning farm survival, growth, and success. Success is defined as continuing in business for 5 years without a decline in farm real estate asset value. The results indicate which types of beginning farms and farmers are likely to survive and grow—information which could be useful in targeting program resources. By identifying policy-amenable variables that correlate with both farm survival and business expansion, the results also suggest possible mechanisms for increasing the success of beginning farms.