Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09637
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Eugene A. Kroupa Collection, Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy degree, Cooperative Extension-Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 152 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02159
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Pages 62-71 in Blessing M. Maumbe (ed.), E-agriculture and e-government for global policy development: implications and future directions. Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 321 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28855
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Printers Ink magazine editorial of January 26, 1922, cited in APA Special Bulletin. 1 page., Describes potentials for selling to farm women.
Alba, Pedro (author), Blandford, David (author), Boisvert, Richard N. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University; Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University; Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
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Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 66 Document Number: C02562
2pgs, The Internet is a communication and marketing tool that can provide exposure to a large number of potential customers. The Internet can be used to advertise your farm with pictures and maps, take orders online, show product availability, keep in touch with your existing customers, and support other ways of selling, such as CSAs or farmers markets. Farmers can have an Internet presence through their own website or by using a website run by a third party.
2pgs, CSA is a system of direct marketing where consumers pay the farmer at the beginning of the growing season for a weekly box of fresh fruits and vegetables. A CSA “share” is harvested and delivered to customers over a period of several months. CSAs may include meat, grain, flowers, or value-added products such as bread or cheese, in addition to fresh produce.
2pgs, Institutional markets are entities such as cafeterias in state and local government buildings, schools, universities, prisons, hospitals, or similar organizations. These institutions are becoming more interested in buying local food, which provides a new marketing opportunity for a medium to large-scale farm
