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Farm Journal - BVU Library journal shelves, first floor.
Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources and Rural America from the Economic Research Service department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ag Decision Maker, newsletter from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Agriculture Policy Review (Iowa State) is a quarterly publication that focuses on ag policy in Iowa. Articles are written by academic staff, so slightly more scholarly than other news sources listed here.
AgDay is a daily TV program that focuses on agriculture in the U.S. Produced by Farm Journal.
AgriTalk airs for 2 hours each weekday, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Another Farm Journal production.
Future of Agriculture podcast
Market to Market a weekly half-hour television show devoted to farming and commodity marketing. From Iowa PBS. Also available on YouTube.
Spokesman Speaks - podcast from the Iowa Farm Bureau. Their weekly publication is only available to Farm Bureau members, but the podcast is freely available.
There will be times when you want to use research-based scholarly journal articles to support your work and to provide evidence for what you say or write. This current event-based assignment does not require this type of research-based information.
Current events will be found in magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and podcast programs that are updated frequently.
Popular or Trade Articles | Journal Articles | |
---|---|---|
Audience | Public or Practitioners | Researchers or Experts |
Authors | Usually journalists | Usually professors or graduate students |
Images | Frequent color photos | Charts, Graphs, Tables of statistical information |
Language | Simple to read, little expertise required | Technical terms, written for other experts |
Length | From a few paragraphs to a few paes | Lengthy articles, usually several pages. |
Ads | Frequent advertisements | Few or no advertisements |
Article Structure | No discernable structure | Rigid structure: Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Conclusions, and References |
Purpose | Good for current events, not suitable for research | Good for research, not suitable for current events |
Use the power of the database to quickly find an article on a topic that interests you.
In any Ebscohost database (like Business Source Premier or Academic Search Complete) you can set up your search like this to find any article in Bloomberg Businessweek about the topic of telecommuting.
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