Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36827
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Special Bulletin No. 82. 2 pages., Shows combined circulation, line rates and millini rates of 35 farm papers, 1921-1930. Circulation grew from 7,189,905 in 1921 to 11,931,921 in 1930. Line rate rose from $48.34 in 1921 to $66.01 in 1930. Milline rate is line rate divided by circulation and multiplied by one million.
Ashby, Bruce (author / Advertising Manager, General Foods Corporation) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1931-06-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36822
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Special Bulletin No. 50. 6 pages., Delivered at the departmental session, Agricultural Publishers Association, New York City, New York, June 16, 1931.
Bohen, Fred (author / President, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
1929-12-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36810
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Special Bulletin No. 69. 2 pages., Optimistic letter from APA president to the president of an advertising agency in New York City about economic conditions in rural America.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1933-08-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36843
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Special Bulletin No. 16. 3 pages., Regarding participation of APA in the newly created Periodical Publishers Institute and the agenda it is to undertake.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Brief item explains that the war industries board has ordered a 15 percent reduction in the consumption of print paper by agricultural periodicals.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1940-10-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36875
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 14, Pages 9-10 in Annual Report of the Executive Secretary for the Period Ending September 30, 1940., Emphasis on the practice of criticizing competitors.
Brien, John P. (author) and Evans, James F. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980-02
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00377
Notes:
Agcomm Teaching, Sydney, Australia : University of Sydney, Department of Agricultural Economics, 1980. 32 p. (Agricultural Extension and Communication Paper No. 1)
4 pages, "Charlotte Empey is a unique figure in Canadian magazines. She's the editor and publisher of two women's books. But with all her power, can she bring back journalistic credibility to Homemakers?"
Online from publication. 3 pages., Article features experiences and perspectives of crime novel writer Jeff Gould, a former reporter for the Linder Farm Network in Minnesota.
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
Describes how the editor of a rural Montana weekly chose not to report on the rebellion of a local group of anti-government militants, beyond running official press releases from the Department of Justice.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36820
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Special Bulletin No. 45. 6 pages., Delivered at the departmental session of the Agricultural Publishers Association in Washington, D.C., May 20, 1930.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22487
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jul 1, 1920 - Jan1, 1921, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Bulletin No. 182, page 2, Note of farewell after White served for five-plus years as managing director of the Association.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25910
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Women's Feature Service via Media South Asia. 3 pages., Describes the development and pioneering role of a rural magazine for which rural women handle all the reporting, writing, editing, layout, artwork, photography and circulation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27817
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Historical sketches from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin. Data collected in about 1925., Included: American Cookery, American Food Journal, American Motherhood, American Needlewoman, Arkansas Homestead, Baby, Babyhood, Better Homes and Gardens, Boyce's Home Folks, Delineator, Farmer's Wife, Forecase, Good Health, Good Housekeeping, Good Stories, Holland's Magazine, Home Circle, Home Friend Magazine, Hostess, Household Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Modern Pricilla, Mother's Home Life, Nation's Health, People's Home Journal, People's Popular Monthly, Pictorial Review, Social Progress, Today's Housewife, Vogue, Woman's Digest, Woman's Home Companion, and Woman's World
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: D11356
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Radio program transcript online from National Public Radio. 4 pages., "Weekend Edition" program describes the approach taken by a Pulitzer-winning "small town" newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa, writing editorials challenging corporate agribusiness interests in the state. Transcript also briefly cites experiences of two additional small town Iowa newspapers.
Tindall, Cordell (author / Missouri Ruralist, USA), Jain, G.F. (author / Sevagram, Delhi, India), Lavoie, Paul-Henri (author / La Terre de Chez-vous, Montreal , Canada), Kosolapov, Nikolai (author / Selskya Zhizn, Moscow, USSR), Wykeham-Fiennes, Anthony Patrick (author / Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney), and Covreur, F.F. (author / International Federation of Farm Writers, Paris, France)
Format:
Panel report
Publication Date:
1967-06
Published:
International: First International Congress of Farm Writers.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: D10787
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Item located in Document D10786. 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/, Pages 21-28 in J.S. Cram (ed.), Proceedings of the first International Congress of Farm Writers at Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada, June 18-21, 1967. 112 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22955
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Jim Evans Collection, 385 pages., "A behind-the-scenes story of Reiman Publications, a company that began in a basement, was built on 'wild ideas' and become a publishing empire that sold for $760 million."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22545
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Published in a column, "The Final Word," from Food Routes Network, Millheim, Pennsylvania. Issue 45. 2 pages., Author reports on consolidation of farm periodicals, with resulting cutbacks in editorial staffing and in local coverage. Describes financial pressures that lead to more use of free-lance writers that often write for ag publications and ag public relations agencies simultaneously. "But the divided loyalties often yield stories that resemble corporate press releases more than journalism." Cites an example from his experience as a free-lance writer.
Paul Hixson Collection., Describes changes in INTERPAKS Digest, newsletter of the International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems, published by the Office of International Agriculture,College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Special Issue Collection - Illinois Country Living 75th Anniversary
See this article in Document Number D09314., Cover pages and brief stories describe the history of Illinois Country Living magazine from 1943 to date.
Snowdon, Gail (author / Decision Data Specialist, Communication Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois) and Decision Data Specialist, Communication Services, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 76 Document Number: C04059
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, Information Services, 1991. 1 p. (Decision Data Summary, Information Guide to Communications Planning No. 5S)
Environment and Development Organization News and Networking, Asia Edition., Announces formation of the Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media (CAAM) to "focus on farmer friendly communication system." Explains that alternative agricultural media emphasize the need for farmer-friendly ideologies and practices in agricultural research and communication. Example cited: farm journals "published by the farmers and pens to farmers' hands." CAAM web site: http://www.farmedia.org
Wylie, John M. II (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25731
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Via Institute web site. 2 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
September 15 issue via online. 3 pages., Purchase by this UK-based firm adds 30 exhibitions, more than 20 data and intelligence brands, and more than 100 print and digital business-to-business brands.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07660
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Via Agri Marketing Weekly. 2 pages., Purchase of "the leading independent US exhibitions and professional information services group." Formerly Farm Progress Companies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: C02708
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electronic publishing, James F. Evans Collection, Mississippi State, MS : Mississippi State University, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Editorial Department, 1988. 32 p.
Carey, Harry A., Jr. (author / Professor of Agriculture and Extension Education, Pennsylvania State University) and Professor of Agriculture and Extension Education, Pennsylvania State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: C03040
National Project in Agricultural Communications (author)
Format:
Guide
Publication Date:
1958
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 22 Document Number: B02358
Notes:
#B905.D; See also ID BO2348 to ID BO2359, Harold Swanson Collection; Eldon Frederick Collection, American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities, 1958. 37 p.
Abbott, Eric A. (author) and Benton, Holly (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22333
Notes:
Presented at the conference of ACE (Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences), San Antonio, Texas, June 1, 2005. 13 pages., Largest single collection of such publications ever assembled - 9,573 titles. Bibliographic database can be searched online by title, date, editor, state or subject matter topic. Describes the development of this collection by Donald Watson, long-time agricultural editor.
