AAEA Seeks Board Nominations

April 17, 2019News, The ByLine

By Julie Deering, Nominating Committee Member As spring has arrived and farmers are making final preparations before lowering their planters to the ground with the promise of a new crop, AAEA’s board seeks a new crop of volunteers. If you, or someone you know, would like to serve on the AAEA board of directors, nominations … Read More

Seeing Double: The story behind the story

April 17, 2019Awards, The ByLine, Writing

By Matthew Wilde, ISA Senior Writer and 2018 First Place “On-Farm Production” Writing Category Winner *Editor’s Note: This article is part of the “Story Behind the Story” series featuring first place 2018 AAEA Communication award winners. Click here to read the full award winning article. After several years of low commodity prices and razor-thin or … Read More

Kasey Brown Selected as IFAJ/Alltech Young Leader

April 17, 2019Awards, The ByLine

By Kurt Lawton, AAEA International Committee Co-Chair Kasey Brown, Associate Editor with Angus Media, St. Joseph, Mo., was just named one of the IFAJ/Alltech Young Leaders for 2019. Selected from nominees age 35 and younger, submitted by IFAJ’s 50 member guilds, Brown is among 10 young journalists who demonstrate great potential to become leaders in … Read More

Meet Your New Board Member: Chris Clayton

April 4, 2019News, The ByLine

By Gil Gullickson The biggest story of Chris Clayton’s journalism career had nothing to do with what he originally intended to write about. And even in these days of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, it shows there’s no substitute for pounding good old-fashioned shoe leather and knocking on doors.   “I had come back from the … Read More