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 | Jun 13, 2024 | Ag Policy, News, The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Brooks Lamb, American Farmland Trust Imagine that you live on a 200-acre farm. It’s a productive place, filled with open fields and healthy forests. Perhaps there’s a creek that meanders along the eastern boundary. Maybe your cattle graze the back pastures while...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Jun 13, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Awards, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist As Ag Media Summit fast approaches, be sure to mark your calendars for the following ACN-related events (all times local). We can’t wait to see you in Kansas City! Welcome Party Sunday, August 4th from 6:30-9:30 PM...
by AgCommNetwork | May 9, 2024 | AAEA News, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Some of Adrienne Held’s favorite memories as a little girl are of the weekends and summers she spent at her grandparent’s place, helping them tend to their strawberry patch. Those wide open spaces and the purposeful labor of growing,...
by AgCommNetwork | Apr 12, 2024 | AAEA News, Member Resources, News, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Bre Holbert, AgDaily In 2018, on one of many travels as a National FFA Officer, I found myself immersed in a city that most of my colleagues have affectionately called “the Big A.” Those of you who are with it know what I mean. I’m talking about Atlanta, Georgia....
by AgCommNetwork | Apr 12, 2024 | AAEA News, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor If all had gone according to plan, Kevin Schulz would be farming. That’s what the Amboy, Minnesota native had planned to do after high school. But it was also the 1980s, and the farm economy was too harsh for another generation to join...
