By Leslie Drummond, Mississippi State Ag Communications Student The Alabama Farmers Federation hosted the Ag Communicators Network Southeast Regional Workshop in Montgomery, Ala. on November 14, 2017. The workshop featured speakers and presenters from around the state in all different fields of the agriculture industry. The speaker’s focused on hot topics concerning our state, such as … Read More

Help Us Reach Our Goal We set a goal to reach 400 paid members in 2018. We currently have 306, which means only 94 to go!  Imagine  if everyone recruited just one member. We would easily surpass our goal! Help your association by participating in our membership drive and win a cool prize for your recruitment efforts! … Read More

By Laurie Bedord, Future Ag Communicators Chair Two outstanding students have been chosen to serve as the 2018 AAEA Agricultural Communicators Network summer interns. Cheyenne Dunn was selected to be the AAEA editorial communications intern with Successful Farming in Des Moines, Iowa. She is a junior at Purdue University and is majoring in agricultural communications. … Read More

By Jessie Scott, Meredith Corporation It’s not what you know, it’s who you know, goes the old adage. I learned this early on in my career through a mentorship program I joined in college. The connections I made through that program have led to every position I’ve held, including my current role as digital content … Read More

By Mike Wilson, Farm Progress Co. (Part two of a two-part series. Click here to read part one.)   Many winners of AAEA’s Andy Markwart Horizon Award never had a chance to meet the man this prestigious honor is named after. That’s a shame, because anyone who knew Andy loved him and his outlook on … Read More