by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Peering into agriculture’s crystal ball for 2024 is an interesting exercise. At its heart, production agriculture is the production of food, fiber and fuel. And yet, if you do a Google search along the lines of “what’s in store for...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | Member Resources, The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Joel Reichenberger, Senior Editor for Progressive Farmer and ACN Board Member My father, Larry Reichenberger, called recently while he was cleaning up his home office. He retired from this industry about a year ago after 48 years of recording bylines with many of...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | AAEA News, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Betsy Freese, Legacy Committee Chair The Legacy Committee is made up of 11 members of our organization, each with at least 40 years of agricultural communications experience. Members are: Betsy Freese, chair Harlen Persinger Fred Myers Cheryl Tevis Karen McMahon...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor On a cold, winter day in January, ACN President Martha Mintz felt exhausted. On the ACN Facebook page, she wrote: “I needed this reminder to stop and center myself. I pictured sitting right next to a wheat field that’s just starting to...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Ryan Tipps In 2007, when I traveled to Norway for my honeymoon, I saw a farmer using a scythe to harvest wheat. While I had certainly seen aged scythes among the aisles of antique shops and in historic photos, I had never seen one actively used in the real world....
