By Jamie Cole, AAEA Board Member, Creative Director, Red Barn Media Group What is your background? Were you a farm kid? I was very involved in 4-H and FFA growing up, but that was more from growing up in a rural area; I wasn’t a farm kid. Some of my extended family farmed, and we … Read More
Month: October 2019
Story Behind the Story: Views from the Countryside
By Allison Jenkins, editor, Today’s Farmer, MFA Incorporated 2019 AAEA First Place Personality Profile Winner Click here to read View from the Countryside Farm broadcaster, speaker and author Andrew McCrea has made a successful career out of telling other people’s stories. Last year, I got the chance to tell his story. I met McCrea when … Read More
October Podcast: The Power of a Network with Amy Roady
By Kelsey Litchfield, AAEA Podcast Host CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON ITUNES CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON PODBEAN AND NOW ALSO ON GOOGLE PLAY! AND NOW ON SPOTIFY! Today on the podcast, Amy Roady of Illinois Soybean Association shares powerful insight into her role as director of communications for a membership association. From budgeter to … Read More
Words from the Heartland- My AMS Experience: Diane Meyer
By Diane Meyer, American Hereford Association, 2019 Cultivating Young Ag Journalist by Alltech Recipient I remember my first Famous Welcome Party like it was last week, feeling slightly out of place in a red shirt next to my Cal Poly colleagues who had all remembered white outfits. In my defense, I had returned stateside after … Read More
Global Impressions of Rural Iowa: IFAJ Pre-Congress Tour
By Harlen Persinger Prior to attending the International Federated Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Congress in Minneapolis, a group of communicators had the opportunity to visit diversified farming enterprises and industries in the vicinity of Grundy County, Iowa. During this three-day trip, participants from Australia, Japan, Austria, Northern Ireland, Germany and South Africa learned how century farms … Read More
Story Behind the Story: Ranching on the Mexico Border, A Harsh Reality
By Kayla Sargent, Western Ag Reporter, 2019 AAEA First Place Issues Winner Read the three part series: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Several missed connections, three unread emails and a brief and somewhat gruff phone call to set a time eventually led to a three-hour conversation depicting experiences that seemed unreal to a Montana … Read More
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