15 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Researchers analyzed antecedents and consequences of affective commitment revealed "the importance of pleasant arousal in reinforcing self-expressive recycling in order to increase the affective commitment."
Via online issue obtained from aginfo@farmjournal.com. 3 pages., Author reports on efforts for closer integration among the cow-calf, stocker, and feeding sectors of the beef industry. The article describes efforts of feedlot veterinarians affiliated with the Production Animal Consultation (PAC) to develop a plan to share data, experiences, ideas, and outcomes. "PAC now has 35 veterinary members in 14 states and two international countries, along with staff to assist in information technology, data collection, research and communications."
9 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Author explored dual pressures on the U.S.Forest Service, based on changing culture of the home organization and external environmental factors involving topics such as forest plans, timber sales, oil and gas leases, and grazing permits on public land. Described approaches and experiences of the Forest Service, which as among the first federal agencies to institutionalize dispute resolution procedures formally and did so on its own initiative.
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10756
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/, Five-minute speech at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 1967. 3 pages., Author encourages AAEA members to find ways for improving the flow and quality of information between commercial companies and farm magazines.
Meyer, Eugene C. (author / Associate Editor, Hoard's Dairyman)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1967-11-29
Published:
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10754
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/, Five-minute speech at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 1967. 2 pages.
Online from publisher. 6 pages., Case example includes description of successful use of farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange and festivals for rural-urban populations featuring ways to get these climate-hardy crops back on their plates.
International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11614
Notes:
3 pages., Online from publisher., Author addresses "large gap between African extension services ... and the number of farmers being reached." ... "Africa's existing mobile network (currently the second biggest mobile market in the world) could be better utilised to bridge this gap and provide mobile-based agricultural information, advice and support to smallholder farmers."
9 pages., Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is an important regional food source, providing food and income to over 30 million farmers, processors, and traders in Nigeria. Extension programs support awareness and interest in new technologies; they facilitate the adoption and adaptation of new approaches to crop production, post-harvest processing, and marketing. Extension can be understood as an intermediary or catalyst in the dissemination of information to rural farmers. This study analyzed the effect of cassava farmers’ exposure to extension on a broad measure of cassava technology adoption, while considering the influence of some individual and farm characteristics as control variables. Data were obtained from personal interviews with sample of 952 households conducted in southern Nigeria. Results show a relationship between extension exposure and technology adoption. Farmer-to-farmer interaction played the greatest role in diffusion of the technologies. Interactions with extension agents were low, suggesting that adoption of improved technologies could be enhanced by improved regular contact with extension information. The results underscore the importance of farmer-to-farmer interaction processes that often overshadow extension assistance in supporting and guiding the use of production technology. The conclusions consider some implications for 21st century extension.
Available online at www.centmapress.org, Describes the type of information regarding food shared on Twitter and what kind of network is established between Twitter users in those cases when the #food in question is associated to a geographical area. Findings highlighted differences between the two networks surveyed, both with regard to the actors involved and to the way in which they share information on Twitter.
