Block, John (author / U.S. Secretary of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1984-06-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10742
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/, Speech written for presentation to the first Agricultural Communicators Congress, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1984. 8 pages., Author presents 12 features that he ascribes to the role, work, and impact of agricultural journalists and communicators. Among them: "you are national treasuries of this land of ours." He describes current issues facing agriculture and discusses elements of a 2018 farm bill to be developed.
Online via UI electronic subscription., Examines "a case of cross-border, data-driven investigative journalism that is creating an alternative public sphere for the discussion of issue of food and agriculture in the European Union..."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24116
Notes:
Gallup Poll Social Series - Governance. Via Gallup Brain. 1 page., Summary of responses to a question inviting views about the work the government is doing with regard to agriculture and farming.
