Sources of information important to farmers

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rogers, Everett M. (author) and Burdge, Rabel J. (author)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    1965
    Published:
    USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10780
    Subject Term:
    extension agents, extension services, farm journals, farmers, information sources, newsletters, radio, scientists, television, universities, neighbors, and other farmers
    Notes:
    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/, Page 4 in Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal, August 11, 1965., Selected findings of a small Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station study involving personal interviews with truck farmers in Ohio. Rankings of information sources were provided, by adopter category (i.e., innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards).

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