11 pages, Private-sector dominance of plant breeding constitutes the present norm of organic seed genetics research, which has generated concerns in the organic farming community in this era of robust intellectual property protections. Intellectual property restrictions primarily in the form of certificates, patents, and contractual arrangements are blamed for stifling the innovation of organic seed varieties. To better understand the challenges small-scale and university-based breeders and researchers face in organic corn seed genetic development, this article provides an overview of intellectual property structures surrounding seed innovation and sharing. After describing the legal landscape in which organic corn seed research and development occurs, the article details research efforts exploring the veracity of claims that contractual arrangements (in the form of seed-sharing agreements between breeders and universities) stifle the innovation of organic varieties. In doing so, the article describes the search methodology utilized and highlights a critical barrier to research: the closely guarded nature of private contracts that parties are reluctant to reveal. While we were able to identify several data points that highlighted the importance of seed-sharing agreements as a part of the intellectual property regime controlling organics research and breeding, we were unable to obtain contracts or identify disputes over contractual language to further analyze. Such contractual language only becomes available upon consent and release by individual parties to the contract or by litigation that exposes the contractual language, both of which we attempted to explore and utilize. The article concludes with a discussion of why contractual arrangements in the context of organic corn seed development are an informative piece of the intellectual property puzzle worth exploring, as well as future points of research necessary to yield data substantiating the concerns of stakeholders in the organic seed industry.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16485
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Pages 53-56 in "Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers," St. Louis, Missouri, October 18-20, 1905. U.S.D.A. Office of Experiment Station Bulletin No. 154., Comment by Hall: "It is the experiment station and not the agricultural college that has wrought such a marvelous change in the farmers of America toward scientific agriculture. Professor Chamberlain comments upon the change in the institutes that took place soon after the Hatch Act brought into existence the experiment stations, as follows: 'It was my privilege to compare the agricultural conventions of the state (Wisconsin) at two periods separated by a decade within which the experiment station became a potent influence. The dominant intellectual and moral attitude of the earlier period was distinctly disputatious and dogmatic. .. In the second period the dominant attitude was that of scientific conference.'" (p. 54)
Second annual meeting of the Association of Agricultural College Magazines in Chicago, Illinois. Represented: Cornell Countryman (New York), Agricultural Student (Ohio), Illinois Agriculturist, Purdue Agriculturist (Indiana), Progressive Agriculturist (Oklahoma), Wisconsin Country Magazine, Penn State Farmer.
This committee report reflects communications problems arising from the recent establishment of new entities and programs within the USDA at various levels. Offers recommendations for improving coordination between USDA divisions and extension services of the various states.
Committee report calling for consolidation and coordination of USDA information activities, internally and with extension units of land-grant universities.
Summarizes a presentation by Russell Thackrey, executive secretary of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, at the recent AAACE conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Summarizes a presentation by Lowell Treaster, director of public relations at Michigan State College, at the recent AAACE conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
From an address, "Communications and the land-grant institution." He argues: "Communication is inseparable from education. In fact, it is the heart of education. It is impossible to have education without communication, and we cannot have communication without some degree of education. The two go hand in hand."
Andrews, Stanley (author), Johnson, Paul (author), Swanson, Harold B. (author), Wilkening, Eugene A. (author), Calkins, William (author), and Meeker, David (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1954-09
Published:
USA: American Association of Agricultural College Editors
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17893
Reports on a national survey of the organization and operations of editorial offices in land-grant institutions. Results revealed "an utter lack of uniformity in organization and duties in the 31 institutions reporting." Summary provides three case examples of centralized and decentralized operations. Staff numbers range from 1 to 6. Also reveals institutions in which the editorial offices provide journalism teaching.
Results of a survey among 32 experiment station editors.. Aspects: types and size of annual reports, financing, editing systems, comments from editors, reactions of station personnel whose work is edited.
Tucker, Mark (author), Whaley, Sherrie (author / Ohio State University), Whiting, Larry R. (author), and Ohio State University
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2004-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21027
Notes:
Presented at annual conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, Lake Tahoe, Nevada., 14 p..
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21148
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Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages., This report is a compilation of unedited papers, discussions and reports from concurrent workgroups presented or developed at the initial workshop of the Social Science Agricultural Agenda Project. National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy and Michigan State University provided seed money for planning the workshop.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21149
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Pages 79-115 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages., (p. 79) "I must, nonetheless, apologize for the fact that because of the limited time available for preparing this paper, I have elected not to treat home economics or home ecology and education at all. Regrettably, I have so little knowledge of these fields that it is better that I say nothing rather than risk generating or perpetuating half-truths. I will also not treat the communication sciences as a separate 'discipline' because of the inherent multidisciplinary character of departments of communication, agricultural journalism, and so on. Persons in these departments have typically been trained in such a wide range of disciplines (including sociology, psychology, journalism, and the humanities) that it is impossible to examine such programs as a single discipline. I will also not treat community development as a discipline."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21150
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Pages 153-177 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages., Rural people, resources and communities: an assessment of the capabilities of the social sciences in agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21151
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Pages 227-229 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21153
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Pages 257-266 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21154
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Pages 267-280 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21156
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Pages 319-338 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages.
Sachs, Carolyn (author) and Caye, Virginia (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21263
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Pages 1135-1150 in Richard Haynes and Ray Lanier (eds.), Agriculture, change and human values. Conference proceedings, October 18-21, 1982. University of Florida, Gainesville. 1176 pages., Focuses in particular upon problems in linkages between research and extension.
Analysis of this agricultural leader's views suggests Bailey sought "not to develop a more efficient, productive, and profitable agriculture, but to advance the larger cultural ideals of a 'self-sustaining' agriculture and personal happiness."
Describes changes since 1973 when Jim Hightower in the book Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times focused on research agendas of the public agricultural research system.
Boone, Kristina (author), Tucker, Mark (author), and McClaskey, Jackie M. (author)
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
2001-07-28
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 116 Document Number: C11979
Journal Title Details:
23 pages
Notes:
The document is available in electronic or paper format, Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group, 2001 ACE/NETC Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 28 July- 01 August 2001
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes9; Folder: NPAC File Document Number: C12642
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, 3 p., Thought piece about the impact of the National Project in Agricultural Communications (during the 1950s) on land-grant universities, and on him and his career.
Scherer, Chris (author / North Central Computer Institute) and North Central Computer Institute
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 65 Document Number: C02415
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Four copies, In: The use of computers in agricultural information (NCCI Workshop; 1983 May 2-5; Palmer House, Chicago) Madison, WI : North Central Computer Institute, 1983. p. 149-165
