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2. Broad coalition formed to push for rural broadband
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11768
- Notes:
- Report from Agri-Pulse received online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 6 pages., Report of a letter to Capitol Hill and the White House from a new American Connection Project Broadband Coalition calling for a "robust federal investment in broadband internet connectivity." Letter (attached) signed by 40 ag, tech, and healthcare groups.
3. Impacts of the usda broadband loan and grant programs, the: Moving toward estimating a rate of return
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kandilov, Ivan T. (author) and Renkow, Mitch (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-01
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12777
- Journal Title:
- Economic Inquiry
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 1129 - 1145
- Notes:
- 17pgs, In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code Business Patterns for the period from 1997 to 2007. Our results indicate that two of the smaller broadband programs (the Pilot loan program and the broadband grants program) likely had no effect on local payroll per workers. On the other hand, the largest program in terms of funding and coverage (the current broadband loan program) likely had a positive impact. Our estimate implies that a $1 per capita increase in a particular zip code's one-time receipt of the current program broadband loan results in a $0.92 increase in payroll per worker annually. Our calculated point estimates of the benefit: cost ratios for this broadband program range from 1.98 to 2.99, depending on assumptions about the time frame over which benefits accrue. However, the confidence intervals are wide enough to include the possibility that the costs outweigh the benefits.
4. Agricultural information sources, channels and strategies for sharing agricultural research findings among farmers in Iringa district in Tanzania
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malekani, Andrew (author) and Mubofu, Christian (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-24
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12363
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Spring 2020
- Notes:
- 15 pages., The aim of this research was to investigate the agricultural information sources and strategies for disseminating agricultural research findings to farmers in Iringa District, Tanzania. A total of 90 farmers were interviewed by using a self-administered questionnaire. The statistical Package for Service Solutions (SPSS) software and Spreadsheet were used as instruments to analyse the findings. Results of this study indicate that radios, church leaders, village leaders and seminars are the main channels of information used by extension officers to disseminate agricultural information to farmers. With regard to strategies the study revealed that, the use of religious leaders and government officials; use of primary school teachers and pupils; non-political interference; repackaging and packaging of technical information reports; deployment of extension officers in rural areas; use of community-based organisations and the establishment of agricultural information boards were the main effective strategies for disseminating agricultural research information to farmers. It is therefore, concluded that radio, church leaders, seminars, Newspapers, brochures and fliers should be intensively used to disseminate agricultural information among farmers so as to raise productivity in their farms. The study suggest that, there is a need to use other disseminators such as influential people, religious leaders, political leaders, primary school teachers and pupils to disseminate such information in addition to repackaging of agricultural research findings to tailor it to the farmers’ needs.
5. Access and use of agricultural market information by smallholder farmers: Measuring informational capabilities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ko, Jesuk (author), Magesa, Mawazo M. (author), and Kisangiri, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-03
- Published:
- International: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12194
- Journal Title:
- The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 86, Issue 6
- Notes:
- 21 Pages, While farmers sell their crops, middlemen provide a linkage between them, markets and buyers. Middlemen have good knowledge of working conditions of markets and have access to agricultural market information. Due to poor access to markets and agricultural market information by smallholders, there is a feeling that middlemen benefit more while farmers sell their crops. Good access to markets and market information may help farmers bypass middlemen while selling crops and thus benefit more. Thus, it is best to improve the informational capabilities (ICs) of farmers in agricultural marketing. Thus, this research measured ICs of farmers accessing market information, through a program NINAYO, while selling their crops. The research utilized the informational, psychological, social, and economic dimensions of the empowerment framework in identifying capability indicators to formulate survey questions. Data were collected from smallholders in six regions in Tanzania. The analysis utilized measures of life satisfaction and results showed that about half of the variation in the dependent variable, satisfaction with capabilities, was explained by the model. Backward elimination analysis confirmed that life satisfaction is multidimensional. Robustness test confirmed a positive relationship between satisfaction and capabilities. Overall, results confirmed ICs are multidimensions, their improvement empowers farmers in agricultural marketing.
6. Farmers’ Perspective on Agricultural Information Literacy: A Case Study of Jind District, India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kumar, Deepak (author) and Devi, Jyoti (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12362
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- Winter 2020
- Notes:
- 12 pages., The primary purpose of the present study is to explore the level of information literacy among the farmers with regards to agriculture at the Jind district of Haryana state in India. Survey method with accidental sampling is used, and data were collected from a total number of 52 farmers who lived in the two selected villages by using a self-structured questionnaire. The demographic profile shows male dominancy on agriculture, and the majority of the farmers found literate. Their primary source of income is agriculture (86.54%), and 84.62% of them own the land of fewer than four acres. Rice, wheat, sorghum, cotton, and pearl millet are main crops that the farmers grow in their fields. Agriculture, education, and health are the main areas on which all the farmers need information, and TV & newspapers are found as the primary sources of acquiring the required information. The low price of crop production (M=4.87), lack of electricity in rural areas (M=4.85), and low level of literacy (M=4.73) are significant problems the farmers faced in information searching. However, there is a need to make the farmers aware of the public library and their importance and use, and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and their utility.
7. The Park System is selling out to telecom giants with Trump blessings, cell towers are infiltrating protected public lands
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tobias, Jimmy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11711
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- March
- Notes:
- 32 pages., Via online from publisher website., "...there is an ongoing bipartisan push to expand broadband coverage into the corners of the nation where politicians and corporations alike perceive a higher demand, including many protected public lands."
8. The one-traffic-light-town with some of the fastest internet in the U.S
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Halpern, Sue (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11098
- Journal Title:
- New Yorker
- Notes:
- Online from the New Yorker., Fibre-optic cables strung above a home in Jackson County, Kentucky, one of the poorest countries in the country. High-speed broadband has been used to bring internet-based jobs to the region.
9. 5G is coming: here's what it means
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Weis, Dusty (author / Association of Equipment Manufacturers)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11101
- Journal Title:
- Agri Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(8) : 30, 32
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Overview of 5G network technology and what it will mean to the agricultural equipment industry.
10. 60% of farmers report lack of high-speed internet impacting their business
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11002
- Notes:
- Online from the United Soybean Board via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Summary of survey results reported in "Rural broadband and the American Farmer: Connectivity challenges limit agriculture's economic impact and sustainability." Findings reflected responses from more than 2,000 U.S. primary and secondary farm operators in a combination of online and mail-in surveys.