by AgCommNetwork | Jun 30, 2025 | Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel
By Chelsea DintermanNote: Chelsea Dinterman earned an IFAJ stipend to attend the 2025 World Seed Congress. Nearly 6,000 miles from home, I watched a familiar scene unfold. A group of journalists congregating...
by AgCommNetwork | May 8, 2025 | The ByLine, Travel
By Steve Werblow, President, International Federation of Agricultural Journalists If you’ve ever considered attending an IFAJ Global Congress, this year’s meeting in Kenya will be an unforgettable one. From October 15-18, 2025, the International Federation...
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 | ACN 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...
