By Joel Riechenberger, DTN/The Progressive Farmer, 2020 AAEA Third Place Photography Winner, Picture Story Category Judges’ Comments: This entry knocks it out of the park. A superb example of capturing a variety of striking images that visually tell an exceptional story. Great photos in this layout. All pictures have a meaning quickly grasped by a … Read More
AMS Speaker Highlight: Great Email Marketing in 2020 and Beyond Session
By Ag Media Summit Jessica Best is a self-admitted numbers nerd. She’s worked to lift ROI in customer- and data-driven marketing for a broad range of brands like Dairy Queen, Spirit Airlines, Winnebago, Planet Fitness, Beauty Brands, Hostess, Water.org, Farmland Foods, Hallmark Baby, At Home, Banfield Pet Hospitals, SelectQuote, and Boulevard Brewing Company, and more. … Read More
AMS Program Highlight: The Post-Election Farm Road: What a Century of D.C. Experience Tells Us
Mary Kay Thatcher, senior manager, federal government and industry relations at Syngenta, hosts a panel of Washington, D.C., insiders with a collective century of experience in ag policy issues. In this session, you will hear experts decipher the outcome of the election and what the first 100 days of the next Congress holds. Mary Kay … Read More
Top 5 Apps I Use to Help with Day-to-Day Business Operations
By Kellie Lasack, Roan Marketing and Communications Running a business requires a large magnitude of organization, time, and management. This doesn’t include the time spent creating the work for your clients. To take the work out of, well, work, I discovered five apps that have helped me in numerous areas of my business. Each app … Read More
Why You Should Host An Intern
By Laurie Bedord, Chair, Future Agricultural Communicators Have you considered hosting an intern but weren’t quite sure if it would be worth the time and effort? Rather than try to convince you that becoming a host for an AAEA Ag Communicators Network intern is a worthwhile endeavor, I’m going to let comments from recent participants in … Read More
October Podcast: Celebrating 100 Years
By Katie Navarra, AAEA Podcast Host The Ag Communicators Network is celebrating 100 years of serving the ag media industry. In this episode, AAEA President Gil Gullickson, and past presidents JoAnn Alumbaugh and Gregg Hillyer reminisced about their early days with the association. The trio highlighted several of AAEA’s greatest accomplishments and emphasized that good … Read More