by AgCommNetwork | Dec 12, 2024 | Events, News, The ByLine, Travel
By Harlen Persinger Before attending the 68th IFAJ Congress in Interlaken, Switzerland, my only trip to this European country was in 1965 during a three-week animal science/agronomy travel course with Iowa State University. World famous for cheese and chocolate, there...
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...
by AgCommNetwork | Oct 11, 2024 | AAEA News, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Pam Caraway, ACN President To listen in on the national food conversation in the United States, some Americans might be led to believe the people of Switzerland and other continental countries are in lockstep in regard to non-GMO, limited-pesticide production on...
by AgCommNetwork | Sep 12, 2024 | AAEA News, Awards, Events, News, The ByLine, Travel
By Katie Knapp, International Committee Chair and ACN Board Member IFAJ Congress was held in Interlaken, Switzerland, Aug. 14-18, 2024, and more than just cow bells were ringing. The Swiss guild successfully showed agricultural journalists from around the world how...
by AgCommNetwork | Sep 12, 2024 | Events, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Courtney Leeper Girgis, ROOTED Communications On my first day in Switzerland, I found myself on a bus traveling a narrow mountain road with turns that grew sharper the further up we went. We were fine as long as we did not look down or meet a car on the path. Of...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Jul 11, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Events, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor When you head for Kansas City next month, you have a unique chance to enjoy agriculture in Kansas–my state. The AMS Program Committee has prepared a schedule that touches on many highlights of Kansas agriculture: beef, bread, booze and...
