By Christy Lee, Cee Lee Communications, 2018-2019 AAEA President Our family truck and trailer pulled into the drive from our final summer show this weekend. We’re all a little run down from weeks of being on the road – to Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and around Illinois – showing Hereford cattle. It’s expensive. It’s exhausting. But … Read More
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My Ag Media Summit Experience: Ryan Tipps
By Ryan Tipps, AgDaily.com, 2019 Cultivating Young Ag Journalist by Alltech Recipient The people, the expo, the workshops –no two Ag Media Summits are going to look or feel the same. Factor in a missed year, like I had in 2018, and the 2019 AMS ushered in a refreshing energy and a new perspective on … Read More
Story Behind the Story: Jennifer Latzke
*Editor’s Note: This article is part of the “Story Behind the Story” series featuring first place 2019 AAEA Communication award winners. By Jennifer Latzke, 2019 AAEA First Place Economics and Management Category Winner Click here to read Jennifer’s award winning article, “Trust Everyone, But Brand Your Data.“ I was sitting in a meeting of farmers when … Read More
Back in Black
By Gil Gullickson, Successful Farming, AAEA 2019-2020 President Rich Fee was my next-door neighbor at Successful Farming for seven years before he retired in 2012. Over the years, we swapped stories about work, farming, family, and just about everything else. (Except sports. Rich is the least sports-minded man I know. Mention Tom Brady to him, … Read More
Agricultural Media Summit is headed to Kansas City in 2020!
By Tina Bowling, CEO/Owner, IAM Solutions, Inc. Ag Media Summit (AMS) is going to the hub of everything agricultural for AMS 2020 at the brand-new Loews Hotel July 25-29, 2020. Kansas City, Missouri offers a vibrant food scene, world famous BBQ, innovative neighborhoods, historic attractions and more fountains than any other city other than Rome. … Read More
The Evolution & Growth of Your Professional Improvement Foundation Observations from outgoing Chair Kelly Schwalbe
By Kelly Schwalbe, Sage Communications LLC At the PIF business meeting during Ag Media Summit, I closed the meeting with some observations from my 13 years of serving on the PIF board of trustees, including six years as Secretary/Treasurer and the last five years as Chair. During that time, the growth and impact of our … Read More