18 pages., Interdisciplinary agricultural research centers are becoming more common at land-grant universities. These centers often use an interdisciplinary approach to address complex science issues. As these centers address agricultural issues that impact society, effective science communication is a necessary activity. However, these centers may face unique barriers or opportunities. This study utilized a qualitative approach to identify the barriers and motivations of interdisciplinary agricultural center directors when communicating about science. Participants identified common science communication challenges, such as time and lack of funding. Funding was also identified as a motivation, as well as factors related to the tenure and promotion process. Recommendations from this work include evaluating the public relations and the effectiveness of science communication from these centers. Future research should also examine the financial structure of interdisciplinary centers to better inform best practices.
10 pages., Via online journal., In 18 East German municipalities, nine of them with a planned pig production site and the other nine with an existing pig production site, a survey was carried out on the factors influencing the acceptance of pig production. The influencing factors examined were the personal attitude on particular aspects of pig production, socio-demographic characteristics, the personal involvement in local decision-making, the size of livestock and the production technology. As a result, existing production sites are perceived more positively than planned sites, without any influence of size and production technology. The difference may be explained by the fact that planned sites are evaluated in respect to economic arguments as jobs and income (market goods), while existing sites are rather evaluated in respect to environmental factors (public goods). For new investments the results lead to the recommendation to emphasize its economic aspects, to integrate the investor socially in the rural community and to apply technology that prevents pollution for the neighborhood. More importantly, the results show the shortcomings of a “top down” approach and the indispensability of endogenous resources in regional development.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: B01571
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#41, Harold Swanson Collection, Turrialba, Costa Rica : Scientific Communications Service, Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 19-. 23 p.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1925-12-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28857
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Letter to APA members. 1 page., Letter to agricultural publishers announcing that an APA-initiated proposal to establish a national, non-legal holiday, "Agriculture Day," had been endorsed by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Wording of the resolution included.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1926-02-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28861
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Special Bulletin 13. 3 pages., Speech before the annual meeting of the Inland Dairy Press Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Portions of a talk by N.A. Crawford, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at a joint conference of Kansas editors and extension workers held at Manhattan, Kansas, October 1926.
Taylor, Carl C. (author) and Frame, Nat T. (author)
Format:
Handbook
Publication Date:
1928
Published:
USA: Kiwanis International, Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10043
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246 pages., A syllabus for the 11th conference of the American Country Life Association featuring "urban-rural relations," Urbana, Illinois, June 19-21, 1928. A handbook for leaders in Kiwanis clubs and other organizations interested in the betterment of urban-rural relations.
Brief summary of a talk by W. P. Kirkwood, University of Minnesota, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon.. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Report on efforts at the University of Arkansas to help people understand why the University is of special value to the entire population of the state. Agricultural editor Kenneth B. Roy concedes that some extension people might call this "propaganda." However, he adds, "we find in Arkansas that the general public becomes interested in Extension work when the story of its activities, programs and results is effectively told."
"The organic act which lies back of the work college editors are doing provides for the gathering and dissemination of information. It was never intended that public funds should be used for "institutional promotion," "propaganda," "press-agenting," "space-grafting," "publicity," "self laudation," "selling" or call it what you will. If "institutional promotion" - to give it the benefit of the least obnoxious designation - comes as a "by-product" of news and helpful information, there's no harm done. But an item aimed to benefit the institution rather than the person who reads that item is not only subversive to the purposes of the college, but is also subversive to the interests of the so-called "by-product." The college has no mandate to work the newspapers; yet it has a sufficient warranty to work for its readers."
Summarizes a presentation by Lowell Treaster, director of public relations at Michigan State College, at the recent AAACE conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09195
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Pages 354-356 in C. Winfield Scott and Clyde M. Hill (eds.).(1954) Public education under criticism. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 413 pages., Editorial published in The Nation's Schools, April, 1951, pp. 29-30,and reprinted in this book by permission.
Welch, C.H., Jr. (author) and Wilson, Meredith C. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1951
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08610
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report, U.S. Extension Service, Washington, D.C. 54 pages.
USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09196
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Pages 382-387 in C. Winfield Scott and Clyde M. Hill (eds.).(1954) Public education under criticism. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 413 pages., Published in Progressive Education, 1952, pp. 119-122, and reprinted in this book by permission.
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/88. Box No. 3. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center
Will, Lester J. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1954-10-19
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36884
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 18, Delivered at the APA annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 19, 1954. 5 pages., Emphasizes the role of consumer research in guiding communications efforts.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes6 Document Number: C12544
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Leadership Pamphlet #13. A practical aid to leaders in education, government, welfare, health, farm, lablr, religion, industry and the community. 48 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04477
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Hal R. Taylor Collection (abstract), Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Research Division, 1957. 51 p. (Research Bulletin 203)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: D10750
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6 pages., 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/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., Report of a brainstorming session on this question at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors' Association. Session conducted by W. A. Hart of Batten, Barton, Dursine and Osborn, Inc. This report lists 98 ideas generated by participants.
Page 17 in Review of Extension Research, January through December 1957. Summary of a thesis for the Master of Science degree in Agricultural Extension, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 94 pages.
Ward, William B. (author / Professor of Agricultural Journalism and Head of the Department of Extension Teaching and Information, Cornell University) and Professor of Agricultural Journalism and Head of the Department of Extension Teaching and Information, Cornell University
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1959
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: B04329
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In: Ward, William B. Reporting agriculture : through newspapers, magazines, radio, television. 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY : Comstock Publishing Associates, 1959. p. 356-386
Ward, William B. (author / Professor of Agricultural Journalism and Head of the Department of Extension Teaching and Information, Cornell University) and Professor of Agricultural Journalism and Head of the Department of Extension Teaching and Information, Cornell University
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1959
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: B04312
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Contains Preface and Table of Contents only; See B04313 to B04329 for individual chapter, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY : Comstock Publishing Associates, 1959. 390 p.
Pages 10-11 in Extension Circular 521, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1958, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a thesis for a Master of Science degree in agricultural extension, Michigan State University, East Lansing. 1958. 79 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05427
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; Compilation of several handbooks; see B00317, B01321, B01899, B05428, B05429, B01570, B01571, and B01575, Theodore Hutchcroft Collection, Washington, DC: International Cooperation Administration, 1960.
Constant, Kenneth H. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1961-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36887
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 21, 2 pages., "A real danger is clearly evident in the attitude of the Bureau of the Census in driving down the number of farm units to the largest commercial and corporate-type farm enterprises."
Pages 13-14 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a thesis for the master of science degree in agricultural extension education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 1961. 141 pages.
Pages 15-16 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of research for a doctor of education degree in extension education, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 1961. 200 pages.
Pages 14-15 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a master's report for the master of education degree in extension education, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. 1961. 115 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 3 Document Number: B00327
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AgComm Teaching, Urbana, IL : Extension Editorial Office, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. 11 p. (Agricultural Communications Research Report 16)
