Seventy-seven percent of Wisconsin's AM stations, 57 percent of FM stations, and 38 percent of television stations broadcast agricultural market news. Most stations devote less than 30 minutes daily to the market reports, which are usually broadcast twice daily, five days a week. Radio market reports are in the early morning and noon hour periods,…

This document summarizes the activities of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assistance program at Makerere University's Faculty of Agriculture. Under the terms of the agreement, West Virginia University provided the services of a senior agricultural educator to work with the faculty and develop a long-range program of…

In 1960 approximately 2,700 rural individuals, mainly husbands and wives who lived in 34 low-income counties in 8 southern states, were scaled for anomia (abject despair). In 1966, 907 families were reinterviewed by place of residence. The hypothesis assumed in this analysis was that anomia and success are inversely related. Both anomia and…

This annual review of selected developments in agricultural education and training of the United Nations family presents economic and social progress reports of countries dependent upon agriculture. Topics covered are education and training in Africa, deep sea fishing training in Korea, correspondence courses in agriculture, national marketing…

The need for a comprehensive plan--an overall pattern of development--for rural counties is discussed in this paper. The planning is done by a representative body with the authority to make detailed studies, to draft and recommend long-range comprehensive plans and specific plans, and to suggest measures to implement the plans. The 3 steps for…

The proceedings of a conference which reviewed the content of undergraduate animal science curricula, content of courses in the animal sciences, and methods and materials used in undergraduate teaching in the animal sciences are presented in this bulletin. These individual papers are included: Trends in Animal Agriculture and the Future of…

Presents data on the readability of periodicals and textbooks commonly used by students studying school agriculture. (GS)

Examines how Soviet economic planners and policymakers cope with the geographic dichotomy of a concentration of population and economic activity in European Russia and the concentration of natural resources in sparsely populated Siberia. (Author/DB)

Set up initially to provide data on populations, employment, health, and agriculture, the Development Information System for Kentucky (DISK) is a pilot project exemplary of the growing use of computers in rural areas for information retrieval. (JC)

The development of fuels from biomass can lead naturally to dispersed facilities that incorporate food or materials production (or both) with fuel production. The author analyzes possible systems based on sugarcane, corn, and guayule. (Author/MA)

Ten case reports of agricultural uses of thermally conditioned wastewater treatment sludge are given to show a way of recycling wastes. (MR)

Problems of agricultural land consolidation, as illustrated by Taiwan's first 10-year land reform phase, include fragmentation of holdings, cost of consolidation, corruption and maladministration by government officials, and timing of operations. (AV)

Major physical and biological processes causing desertification and techniques to alleviate desertification are described. (CP)

Describes the contributions of Justus Liebig to the field of agricultural chemistry. (SL)

Examining the rural self-help or "harambee" movement in Kenya, this article presents data indicating: education projects consistently account for nearly half of all self-help when measured by either project value or volume at the national level, while agriculture and health related activities, at 10 percent each, represent the second…