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It’s the 20th Year for the IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism Award – Apply by June 8

by AgCommNetwork | May 8, 2025 | Awards, News, The ByLine

By Katie Knapp, ACN Board Member and International Committee Chair Since 2005, the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) and Alltech have partnered to support the Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism Award that recognizes the leadership...

Last Call: ACN Communications Award Deadline is April 25

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 11, 2025 | Awards, News, The ByLine, Uncategorized

By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Well, the headline isn’t completely true. Yes, the deadline is April 25, but technically, award submissions will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 2. The catch is: a 20% late fee applies to those entries.  Here are the...

No bad place to be an ag reporter

by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine

By Joel Reichenberger, member, ACN Board of Directors Last year, 2024, will always be “the year of the move” in my family, as we left Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb. Anyone who’s talked to or been on a call with me in the last year...

Meet a Member: Courtney Leeper Girgis

by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine

By Bill Spiegel Like many kids growing up on a farm, Courtney Leeper Girgis knew she wanted to find a career centered around agriculture. But she didn’t know about agricultural communications until she became involved in FFA in high school. As a sophomore at Trenton...

Swiss agritourism: A cow massage and a roll in the hay

by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | Events, News, The ByLine, Travel

By Owen Roberts Global tourism is on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels. That’s great news to people like Francisco Betti, Head of the Global Industries team at the World Economic Forum. At a forum meeting last May, he gushed about this encouraging trend and its...

Does Your Boss Know?

by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | Ag Media Summit, News, The ByLine

By Pam Caraway, ACN President Why do you go to Ag Media Summit? Or why don’t you go to AMS? We’re in the throes of figuring out what AMS will look like in 2025. We know it will be in Rogers, Arkansas. The date is set: July 26-29. When prices jumped after the pandemic,...
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