Hart, Joy L. (author), Esrock, Stuart L. (author), and Leichty, Greg B. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08347
Notes:
Pages 305-315 in Steve May, Case studies in organizational communication: ethical perspectives and practices. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California. 402 pages.
"Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: C27595
Notes:
Capital Press newspaper via Food Safety Network. 2 page., Describes a documentary, Cornucopia's Challenge, that traces several crops from seed to market.
8pgs, The agribusiness sector includes a diverse group of interests - crop producers, livestock and meat producers, poultry and egg companies, dairy farmers, timber producers, tobacco companies and food manufacturers and stores. The industry has new-found relevance going into 2019 as the trade war between China and the United States continues to rage leaving many in the business, especially soybean farmers, hurting.
The industry's giving reached its peak in the 2016 presidential cycle spending more than $118 million. The number fell in 2018 to more than $92 million, but was good for the third-highest spending cycle, and highest for a midterm, the industry has had.
International: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10565
Notes:
4 pages., via website, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA, behind the scenes and in the shadows transnational
corporations are doubling down on their plans to weaken and eliminate public protections
through a related entity, the secretive Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). This littleknown council has the mission of promoting trade by “reducing, eliminating or preventing
unnecessary regulatory differences” between Canada and the United States. Since the RCC’s
inception, agribusiness—including factory-farmed livestock producers, the feed industry, and
chemical and pesticide manufacturers and linked transportation businesses—has had a seat at
the regulatory cooperation table. Their focus, without exception, has been advocating the
scaling back and even elimination of important safety protections in both countries. In the U.S.,
recommendations made by the RCC feed directly into regulations enacted (or eliminated) by
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection
Agency, among others
See this abstract in file folder for Document No. D06143, Abstract of poster presentation at North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture conference, Athens, Georgia, June 16-20.
Reports that as farm magazines of national circulation restricted their circulations the U.S. Department of Agriculture encouraged members of Congress to find a way to remove the excessive burden of increased second-class postal rates from the shoulders of the farm publishers. "This branch of the government, be it realized, has been dependent upon the national farm journals to carry on some of the most important phases of its educational work."
Stone, Glenn Davis (author / Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2003-04-22
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23356
Notes:
Paper presented at the Conference on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, April 22,2003. 20 pages.
Steele, Suzanne (author), Kahan, Jessica (author), and McGlone, Keira (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-06-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25929
Notes:
Presented at the 2007 ACE/NETC conference sponsored by the International Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) and the National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 16-19, 2007. 45 pages.
Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Describes changes in the approaches of animal rights groups such as Farm Sanctuary and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as well as public perceptions about their efforts.
Santi, Emanuele (author), Koutsouris, Alexis (author), Tare, Auron (author), and World Conservation Union (IUCN), International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources.
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2003-09-07
Published:
Albania
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C24929
Notes:
Chapter 10 in Denise Hamu, Elisabeth Auchincloss and Wendy Goldstein (eds.), Communicating protected areas. Presented to the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 8-17, 2003.
Online from publisher., Author observes how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is losing sight of the traditional mission of maintaining public lands and passing them intact to the next generation. "The BLM's mission is not ideological and does no give preference to certain land users. Its legal mandate calls for managing public lands for a variety of uses, treating energy generation and conservation equally. But now, the agency is losing sight of that mission."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05754
Notes:
Online from Rural Reporters. 3 pages., Addresses the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in strengthening the rural sector of developing countries, with emphasis on Africa.
Telg, Ricky (author), Irani, Tracy (author), and Basford, Adam (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-02-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21883
Notes:
Paper presented to Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 5-9, 2005. 20 pages.
Schulze, Birgit (author) and Deimel, Ingke (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11715
Notes:
Paper presented at the 22nd Annual International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) World Forum and Symposium, June 10-14, 2012, Shanghai, China. 14 pages., Authors analyzed the level of agreement of German citizens with the positions of animal rights, consumer protection, and farmer lobby groups and how this agreement or disagreement affects citizens' future meat consumption. Survey findings indicated that the intention to reduce meat consumption is only indirectly influenced by media frames generated by lobby groups. Behavioral control and subjective norm represented the most important direct influencing factors. However, the moral and economic pressure frme have a strong impact on attitude toward meat consumption.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26973
Notes:
Pages 144-162 in Jon Entine (ed.), Let them eat precaution: how politics is undermining the genetic revolution in agriculture, AEI Press, Washington, D.C. 203 pages.
Reports on a court action requiring the USDA to release information identifying persons with whom officials met before they loosened rules on testing meat for deadly bacteria. "The agency did an about-face on the Listeria regulations, and the Consumer Federation of America suspected the change was due to ex parte communications with industry representatives from the meat and poultry industries, CFA lawyer Jillian M. Cutler told the RCFP." (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
