by Mary Kendall Dixon | Jan 23, 2020 | Events, News, The ByLine
By Holly Martin, American Angus Association, AAEA100 Committee Co-Chair Special thanks to Amy Gohman for designing the AAEA100 logo. It’s time to celebrate and honor the organization we all love! It is the 100th year of American Agricultural Editor’s Association or as...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Jan 23, 2020 | News, The ByLine
By Harlen Persinger After 45 years of working around hot ovens, Svein Sturla Tonstad can scrutinize different trays of dough and precisely know when they are baked to perfection. It has been 50 years since I was selected as an (IFYE) International 4-H Youth Exchange...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Jan 10, 2020 | News, Professional Development, The ByLine
By Julie Deering, PIF Chair One might say AAEA members are particularly business astute and work closely with their financial advisors for the best tax scenario. On the other hand, one might argue that we have members who are particularly charitably minded. How ever...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Dec 12, 2019 | News, The ByLine
By Mindy Ward Editor, Missouri Ruralist What is your background? Were you a farm kid? My first steer for the county fair weighed 500 pounds. A year earlier, my parents grew tired of suburban life and decided to move my siblings to the farm. They did not grow up on a...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Dec 12, 2019 | News, The ByLine
By Gil Gullickson 2019-2020 AAEA President Jim Lee Howell won a National Football League (NFL) championship and was runner-up several times during his tenure as coach of the NFL’s New York Giants. His biggest claim to fame, though, is that he hired two assistant...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Nov 14, 2019 | Awards, News
By Kenna Rathai, Public Relations Director, broadhead I was super surprised when I was awarded the distinction of AAEA Fellow, and extremely humbled. What was even more special was that Den Gardner, the person who gave me my first job, and my long-time mentor, was...
