By Harlen Persinger, AAEA Freelancer Last fall, I was part of a 23-person team affiliated with AAEA that traveled to Cuba. This group came from diverse backgrounds representing a wide array of livestock and crop interests as well as regions around the country. This was not a learning mission as tourists, we were recognized as … Read More
Month: May 2017
Cultivating Young Ag Journalists Program
AAEA –the Agricultural Communicators Network believes it is vital to provide professional development and education opportunities for its younger members to attend the annual Ag Media Summit. Based on our recent survey of members, attending AMS is a major motivating factor that builds professional skills and provides networking and AAEA engagement opportunities that our members … Read More
Come to This Session: Outstanding Speaker from Poynter at AMS
By JoAnn Alumbaugh, Farm Journal If you attended the Regional AAEA/LPC meeting in Ames, Iowa recently, you would have previewed one of the excellent speakers slated to speak at the Ag Media Summit this summer. Vicki Krueger has worked with The Poynter Institute for more than 20 years in roles from editor to director … Read More
IFAJ Insight: South African Farmers Meet Tough Challenges
By Jessie Scott, AAEA InfoExpo Chair “South African farming is not for sissies.” When I first heard that line from a farmer in Delmas, Gauteng, a northern province in South Africa, I chuckled at the bluntness of the line as well as the subtle insinuation that farmers in other parts of the world are … Read More
Come to This AMS Session: Tackle Writing Challenges and Rock On!
By Steve Werblow, AAEA Freelancer We’ve all been there—staring at the screen with a whole lot of story to tell and a little space to tell it in. Frustrated by that challenge one bleak day, I had a thought that rocked me like a hurricane. Taylor Swift could tell a charming love story in … Read More
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