{"id":9243,"date":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dev.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/16_06\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"16_06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/16_06\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News – Issue 16-06"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/strong> Organic profitability around the globe \u2013 and a call for more information <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Organic agriculture was found significantly more profitable than conventional agriculture in a meta-analysis of a global dataset spanning 55 crops grown on five continents over 40 years. Professor John Reganold, Washington State University, reported that finding at the 2016 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum. Under actual conditions with price premiums, organic agriculture provided 22-35 percent greater net present values. <\/span> <\/p>\n

Can organic farming systems play a significant role in feeding the human population? \u201cYes,\u201d he reported, \u201cAnd so can other innovative farming systems, such as conservation agriculture, integrated, mixed farming and alternative livestock systems.\u201d Transitioning to organics can be economically challenging, he said, and more information intensive. <\/span> You can view this PowerPoint presentation here <\/a> . <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Bucking the trend in covering immigration <\/strong> <\/p>\n

<\/strong> \u201cCommunity journalists, particularly in rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast that are seeing the most rapid growth in Latino immigrant population, would do well to heed the example of the <\/span> Garden City Telegram <\/em> and learn from its experience.\u201d Researcher Michael Fuhlhage offered that advice after he examined how a small community daily newspaper in Kansas bypassed the conflict-driven frame for covering the debate over federal immigration reform in the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, the newspaper included Latino leaders in the conversation and promoted immigrants as potential citizens rather than outsiders. <\/span> <\/p>\n

You can read this journal article, \u201cUndocumented workers and immigration reform: thematic vs. episodic coverage in a rural Kansas community daily,\u201d here <\/a> . <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Media urged to challenge the idea that expert views on risk are value-free <\/strong> <\/p>\n

An article we added recently from the journal <\/span> New Genetics and Society <\/em> explored media coverage of the genetic modification debate in Australia. Findings of researcher Anna Salleh, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, led her to argue for reframing of risk debates to give more explicit legitimacy to lay expertise and reinforce the idea that technology develops in a social context. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cI argue it is thus important, whatever the medium, to engage specifically with scientific arguments and to challenge the idea that expert views on risk are <\/span> value-free <\/em> while citizen views are <\/span> value-laden <\/em> .\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

The article is not available on the open web. You can read the publisher\u2019s abstract and citation information for \u201cThe fourth estate and the fifth branch: the news media, GM risk and democracy in Australia\u201d here <\/a> . You might invite the article from Dr. Salleh ( <\/span> anna.salleh@alumni.uts.edu.au <\/a> ) or check with us ( <\/span> docctr@library.illinois.edu <\/a> ) for help in gaining full-text access to it. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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How food helps mediate conflicts <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Colleen Maher Ernst, a 2014 graduate of Harvard Law School, concedes that science may never be able to craft a peace-creating menu.\u00a0 However, in an article in <\/span> Dispute Resolution Journal <\/em> she examined the power of eating together. For example, she cited a source who observed, \u201cEating is a social (as opposed to adversarial) activity. It can be a benign way to have parties relax together without conflicting\u2026that encourages parties to communicate.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

This article, \u201cBreaking bread together: the role of food in mediation,\u201d is not available by open access. You can read the introduction at <\/span> http:\/\/arbitrationlaw.com\/library\/breaking-bread-together-role-food-mediation-dispute-resolution-journal-vol-69-no-2 <\/a> . Or check with us at <\/span> docctr@library.illinois.edu <\/a> for help in gaining access. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\u201cSelling our way out of the farm problem\u201d <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Recently we added to the ACDC collection a speech of that title by Joseph B. Hall, president of Kroger Company. He presented it 70 years ago (1945) to the Women\u2019s Advertising Club of Washington, D.C. Hall concluded, \u201cThrough the years aggressive selling of ideas and products has helped America to grow great. In my opinion, intelligent advertising and sales effort will go a long way toward selling us out of the farm problem.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

Whereas the farm problem at the end of World War II varied greatly from the challenges of today, his basic perspectives about the importance of communicating effectively continue to <\/span> resonate. <\/span> <\/p>\n

<\/span> You can read his comments here <\/a> , as published in \u201cVital Speeches of the Day.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

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We celebrate the 35 th <\/sup> anniversary of ACDC <\/strong> <\/p>\n

How can it be possible \u2013 as 2016 marks the 35 <\/span> th <\/sup> anniversary of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center? It began with about 15 agricultural communications courses being taught here at the University of Illinois \u2013 and a frustrating lack of teaching resources for them. We thought few resources existed, and how wrong we were. They existed, scattered so widely as to be invisible. <\/span> <\/p>\n

Today, the ACDC collection totals more than 42,000 documents about the communications aspects of agriculture, broadly defined.\u00a0 They involve agriculture-related communications in 211 countries, 79 languages and more than 34,000 authors.\u00a0 And we are hardly scratching the surface. <\/span> <\/p>\n

You can read a brief feature article about the anniversary here <\/a> . We express sincere thanks to all who have helped \u2013 and are helping – capture and expand the vision, focus the effort, gather resources and make ACDC a valuable resource and service, internationally. A PDF version is available here <\/a> . <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Communicator activities approaching <\/strong> <\/p>\n

June 13-16, 2016 <\/span>
Annual conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) in Memphis, Tennessee.
Information: http:\/\/www.aceweb.org\/page-1854270 <\/a> <\/p>\n

July 13-17, 2016 <\/span>
\u201cSustainable agriculture \u2013 made in Germany.\u201d 2016 Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) in Bonn, Germany.
Information: https:\/\/ifaj2016.de\/en\/programm\/main-congress\/ <\/a> <\/span> <\/p>\n

June 16-18, 2016 <\/span>
\u201cMay the horse be with you.\u201d Annual seminar of American Horse Publications (AHP) in Orlando, Florida. Information: http:\/\/www.americanhorsepubs.org\/attending-seminar <\/a> <\/p>\n

June 21-23, 2016 <\/span>
Annual meeting of the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Information: http:\/\/www.agrelationscouncil.org\/events\/2016-arc-annual-meeting <\/a> <\/p>\n

July 23-27, 2016 <\/span>
\u201cYour gateway to excellence.\u201d Agricultural Media Summit in St. Louis, Missouri. Joint meeting of the American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association (AAEA), Livestock Publications Council (LPC) and Agri Council of American Business Media. Also annual meeting of Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT).
Information: http:\/\/www.agmediasummit.com <\/a> <\/p>\n

November 9-11, 2016 <\/span>
National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) annual conference, Kansas City, Missouri. Information: info@nafb.com <\/a> <\/p>\n

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On being alert as a journalist <\/strong> <\/p>\n

We close this issue of ACDC News with a recent observation by <\/span> Chicago Tribune <\/em> journalist Patricia Callahan. She was honored earlier this year by the North American Agricultural Journalists organization for her excellence in agricultural reporting: <\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cI have learned over the years that the story you come across along the way is often far more interesting than the one you originally set out to tell.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Best wishes and good searching <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Please pass along your reactions, suggestions and ideas. Feel free to invite our help as you search for information. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @ACDCUIUC <\/a> . And please suggest (or send) agricultural communications documents we might add to this unique and valuable collection. We welcome them in hard copy (sent to Ag Comm Documentation Center, Room 510, 1101 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801) or in electronic format sent to docctr@library.illinois.edu <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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