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Six Years of Designer of the Year: What It’s Taught Me

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 10, 2025 | Awards, Design, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned

By Rachael Davis, ACN Board Member When I found out I had been named Ag Communicators Network’s Designer of the Year for the sixth time, I was genuinely speechless. To be recognized once is a huge honor—but to receive this award year after year? It’s humbling, and...

Sensational Switzerland

by AgCommNetwork | Apr 10, 2025 | Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned

By Harlen Persinger Switzerland, officially The Swiss Confederation, is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura. The Alps occupy the greater part of the territory. Most of the country’s 8.5 million people are concentrated in the plateau...

Save the date: ACN Spring Regional Meeting is May 14 in Chicago

by AgCommNetwork | Mar 13, 2025 | Professional Development, The ByLine

By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Ba-da-bah-da-bah….join agricultural communications professionals for a day of networking, professional development and skill-building in Chicago at the McDonald’s Headquarters that will leave you saying, “I’m Lovin’ It”. This one-day...

Call for Entries: ACN Awards Contest is Open!

by AgCommNetwork | Mar 13, 2025 | Awards, Professional Development, The ByLine

Get your entries ready, because the ACN Communications Awards Contest is open on Reviewr, and will remain open through Friday, April 25. New this year: there is a late fee for submissions after that deadline; each entry will increase 20%. The final deadline is 11:59...

5 Things I’ve Learned as Editor in Chief, Part 2

by AgCommNetwork | Feb 13, 2025 | Professional Development, The ByLine

By Jessie Scott, member, ACN Board of Directors Last year, I shared five things I learned during my first year as editor in chief at Successful Farming. I stopped the article at five to keep it from getting too lengthy, but there were several other lessons I had...

Patrico’s book checks in on the gap between urban and rural cultures

by AgCommNetwork | Nov 8, 2024 | AAEA News, Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel, Uncategorized

By Bill Spiegel, Byline editor Longtime ACN member Jim Patrico revisits some of the stories from his stellar career in a new book,  “Dispatches from Farm Country: A Journalist’s decadeslong search for the soul of rural American in a changing world”. Patrico has earned...
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