Roberts, Owen (author), Simon, Karen (author), and Evans, Jim (author)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
2009-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06651
Notes:
PowerPoint presentation at an American Agricultural Editors' Association session of the Agricultural Media Summit, Fort Worth, Texas, August 2009. 38 pages.
See the article in this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286). Special editions - Delta Farm Press, See article in pages 2-3 of this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286)
See article in page 6 of the 75th Anniversary Issue (Doc. No. D09286), Article in special 75th Anniversary issue of Delta Farm Press. Author is a long-time columnist of the magazine.
USA: The Harvest Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10714
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, 11 pages, Brief history and description of the publisher of five state farm publications and two trade magazines.
USA: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10782
Notes:
Also available via the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Booklet prepared by the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, Second Session. 59 pages., Brief biographies of 27 persons recognized for exceptional influence on agriculture. The group involves three publishers of agricultural periodicals.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/?iid=29085, Features Ogden Publications, Topeka, Kansas, publisher of Grit, Capper's publications and other rural lifestyle periodicals.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketing.com, Features Meredith Corporation, which has roots in agricultural publishing and recently was named Publisher of the Year by Ad Age magazine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36888
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 22, Page 6 of Minutes of the annual APA membership meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 16, 1973., Discussion emphasizes that the strength of farm publications comes from freedom of the press, "but this story has not been told very well."
Sweet, Charles E. (author / President, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1946-04-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36963
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 16, Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, April 10, 1946. 2 pages., Describes challenges and costs of gathering readership information in rural areas, as well as several research techniques considered by the Advertising Research Foundation.
Sweet, Charles E. (author / President, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1947-04-21
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36964
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 16, 11 pages., Includes emphasis on the value of agricultural information, including services that farm publications provide to the USDA.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37335
Notes:
See C37280 for original, Page 56 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15126
Notes:
320 pages., Chapter 10 (pp. 226-238) "Down on the Farm" - describes early farm magazines, leading farm periodicals, regionals, journals featuring special breeds and crops, and those for rural youths. --- Chapter 11 (pp. 239-272) "Land of the Giants" - includes information about farm publishers such as Meredith Corporation, The Miller Publishing Company, Prairie Farmer Publishing Company and Watt Publishing Company.
Obituary of the publisher of The Creamery Journal, Egg Reporter and Kimball's Dairy Farmer based in Waterloo, Iowa. Cited as "one of the best known publishers of farm papers and one of the most successful."
Brantley C. Billy (author / University of Missouri)
Format:
Thesis
Publication Date:
1958-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21040
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents, Ch. I: Introduction, and Ch. VII: Summary and Conclusions. Also includes summaries of chapters II, III, IV, V, VI., Organization: Graduate School, University of Missouri, Columbia. 269 pages
Abbott, Eric A. (author) and Benton, Holly (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22333
Notes:
Presented at the conference of ACE (Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences), San Antonio, Texas, June 1, 2005. 13 pages., Largest single collection of such publications ever assembled - 9,573 titles. Bibliographic database can be searched online by title, date, editor, state or subject matter topic. Describes the development of this collection by Donald Watson, long-time agricultural editor.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Biographical piece about Cyrus H.K. Curtis, chairman of the board of Curtis Publishing Company. Country Gentleman was among the periodicals published by Curtis. Earlier in his career he founded the Tribune and Farmer. "It was from this publication that the Ladies' Home Journal sprang."
