by Ashlyn Rochester | Jul 11, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Events, The ByLine
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist Julie Deering, the AMS Steering Committee Chair, Pam Caraway, ACN’s President-Elect, and Shelia Grobosky, AMS Program Chair, all met on July 10th to inform ACN members about the Ag Media Summit, what to...
by AgCommNetwork | Jun 14, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Events, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor When you come to Kansas City next month for the Ag Media Summit, you should say hello to Julie Deering. Not only is Julie a long-time ACN member, past president and leads the Professional Improvement Foundation, she also is the steering...
by AgCommNetwork | Mar 8, 2024 | AAEA News, Events, News, Travel, What I Learned
By Katie Knapp, International Committee Chair and ACN Board Member I often wow my friends and neighbors with stories of where work takes me. Sometimes, I forget just how amazing ‘another day on the job’ really is until they stop me mid-story about climbing around on...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Feb 9, 2024 | Events, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist In honor of Black History Month and injunction with our new DEI initiative, we are celebrating and sharing five Black innovators in agriculture. Henry Blair Blair (1807-1860) was an African American inventor who...
by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | AAEA News, Awards, Events, Member Resources, News, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel
By Katie Knapp, International Committee Chair and ACN Board Member Would you like to go to Switzerland this summer, learn more about agriculture from a global perspective, AND level up your leadership skills? If so and you are 35 or younger as of December 31, 2024,...
by AgCommNetwork | Nov 10, 2023 | Events, Member Resources, Past President's Thoughts, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
Five Takeaways from the ACN Regional Workshop By Bill Spiegel, ACN Past-President and Byline Editor Packing a bunch of information into a tiny writing hole on a layout is just, well, difficult. Years ago, Steve Werblow did what everyone would do in that situation: he...