By: Elaine Shein, AAEA 2016 Past President, AAEA International Committee Chairwoman UPDATE: In lieu of flowers, the Drake family requests those wishing to make a contribution in Steve’s memory to please consider the CFAES fund at Ohio State University. The fund will help students in the OSU College of Agriculture financially, emotionally and academically. Information: … Read More
Month: May 2021
Let’s Head Back to Kansas City and Make More Memories
By Larry Dreiling, AAEA 2001 Past President, AAEA Legacy Committee Chairman I became a member of the American Agricultural Editors’ Association in 1989. I attended my first “Communications Clinic” in 1990 at Kansas City, Mo., when Wheeler McMillen, legendary editor of Farm Journal, received the first AAEA Lifetime Achievement Award. It was so cool to … Read More
May Podcast: The Comfort and Discomfort of Using Social Media
By: Katie Navarra, AAEA Podcast Host, with Special Guest Ryan Tipps, AGDAILY Managing Editor It can take less than a minute for a single post to go viral—either boosting an organization’s reach to new audiences, or sparking a heated discussion and discontent within a group. Getting comfortable with the reality of that potential discomfort is … Read More
Ag Policy Out of the Mouths of Farmers
Using farmer members and influencers as policy storytellers through Voice for Soy By: Rachel Peabody, AAEA Association Communications SIG Co-Chairperson If you talk to any farmer and ask them about things that keep them up at night, ag policy is probably on that list. Local, state and federal issues impact producers every day, and active … Read More
Recipients of the 2021 AAEA-The Agricultural Communicators Network Scholarships Announced
By: Laurie Bedord, Chairperson of AAEA’s Future Ag Communicators Committee John F. Kennedy once said, “We must do all that we can to give our children the best in education and social upbringing for while they are the youth of today, they shall be the leaders of tomorrow.” Nurturing and investing in our youth is … Read More
Meet Baylee Hogan!
By: Baylee Hogan, 2021 AAEA Intern My name is Baylee Hogan and I am a senior at Oklahoma State University studying agricultural communications and agribusiness. I’m from Franklin, Texas, a rural town 45 minutes north of College Station, Texas. I decided to attend OSU and earn dual degrees in agricultural communications and agribusiness, as I … Read More
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