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...
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...
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...
