Agricultural Communications: Changes and Challenges

Kristina Boone holds a doctorate in Extension education from Ohio State University. As an agricultural communicator, she has worked for a daily newspaper, for a public relations firm and in Cooperative Extension. Dr. Boone is coordinator of the Agricultural Journalism Program at Kansas State University in Manhattan, where her major responsibilities include teaching and research.

Terry Meisenbach is the director of Communication and Information Access at USDA-CSREES/CTDE in Washington, D.C. His professional experience includes 18 years as an agricultural communications professor and publications coordinator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is completing a doctorate in vocational and adult education, with emphasis on distance learning and minority audiences.

Mark Tucker holds a doctorate in rural sociology from Ohio State University. He has worked in agricultural communications and agricultural journalism teaching programs at Texas Tech University and the University of Missouri-Columbia and has served as an agricultural publications editor for Ohio State University Extension. Dr. Tucker is an assistant professor of agricultural communications at Ohio State University.