8 pages, Does it matter whether farmers receive advice on pest management strategies from public or from private (pesticide company affiliated) extension services? We use survey data from 733 Swiss fruit growers who are currently contending with an infestation by an invasive pest, the fruit fly Drosophila Suzukii. We find that farmers who are advised by public extension services are more likely (+9–10%) to use preventive measures (e.g. nets) while farmers who are advised by private extension services are more likely (+8–9%) to use synthetic insecticides. These results are robust to the inclusion of various covariates, ways to cluster standard errors, and inverse probability weighting. We also show that our results are unlikely to be driven by omitted variable bias. Our findings have implications for the current debates on both the ongoing privatization of agricultural extension and concerns regarding negative environmental and health externalities of pesticide use.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07349
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Evans, see C07346-C07352, In: Cernea, M.M., J.K. Coulter, and J.F.A. Russell (eds.) Research, extension, farmer : a two-way continuum for agricultural development. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1985. p. 34-41
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C09741
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National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/89. Box No. 2. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center, Official Historian's Records 22 : 70
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 63 Document Number: C02219
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James F. Evans Collection, Warwickshire, England : Royal Agricultural Society of England, National Agricultural Centre, 1987. 196 p. (Monograph Series No. 6)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
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Via KCET and "Documenting the Face of America" web site. 3 pages., Announcement and summary of a documentary about "the legendary group of New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930s and early 1940s to capture some of the most iconic images in history."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10744
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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/, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture's Memorandum No. 1798, signed by Earl Butz. 4 pages., Establishes the Department of Communication, USDA. Memorandum involves responsibilities, delegations of authority, and immediate actions to be taken. Replaces the current Office of Information.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07830
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James F. Evans Collection, Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, January 1993. 21 p. (7 CFR Chapter XI, part 1220)
