Thanks to Delmar Hatesohl , retired agricultural journalism faculty member, University of Missouri, for contributing additional documents to the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center this month. Changes and challenges in rural communities are the main focus of about 30 documents that were contributed this month by Phillip J. Tichenor, communications faculty member at the University of Minnesota. These new additions, written by Professor Tichenor and his associates from the 1950s through the 1980s, emphasize development trends and issues in rural U.S. communities, including implications for rural families.
Some documents report on studies of farmers' attitudes toward government policies and land use.
Others feature farmers' media use and information sources, as well as farmers' adoption patterns. If you are interested in checking on these documents, let us know by e-mail reply. They aren't yet searchable on the web database, but we can help you gain access to them if you want to see them. If so, please let us know and we will pass the information along to an online inquirer. We are pleased that searchers from 29 countries used this web site during November 1997.