by mruberti | Aug 5, 2021 | AAEA News, News, Past President's Thoughts, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Greg Lamp, AAEA 2003 Past President I’ve always envied people who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. But that wasn’t me. In fact, about all I knew is that I wanted to do something related to agriculture besides milking cows and riding a tractor. Nothing...
by mruberti | Jul 7, 2021 | Ag Media Summit, Events, Member Resources, News, The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Mindy Ward, AAEA President-Elect “Do you have a business card on you?” I traveled to my first Ag Media Summit with great expectations of making a good first impression with my fellow editors. But you guessed it, I didn’t bring along a key item that would help them...
by mruberti | Jul 7, 2021 | Professional Development, Student News, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Jill Parrent, AAEA Member As a recent college graduate who majored in Agricultural Communications, when looking at the programs prior to starting my college education, there were more options than I could wrap my head around. The choices of majors continue to grow...
by mruberti | Jul 1, 2021 | AAEA News, Past President's Thoughts, Professional Development, Student News, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Holly Martin, AAEA 2009 Past President Years ago, I distinctly remember being on vacuum duty while my mom grumbled about the stack of farm and dairy magazines on my dad’s end table. It must have been summertime and the stack was large because he hadn’t had much...
by mruberti | Jul 1, 2021 | AAEA News, Ag Media Summit, Events, News, Past President's Thoughts, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Holly Spangler, AAEA 2014 Past President The year was 1997. I was an Ag Relations Council intern in Washington, D.C., about to start my senior year in college. No less than a half dozen people I met that summer said, “Hey, you need to go to the AAEA meeting in...
by mruberti | Jul 1, 2021 | AAEA News, News, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Rachel Peabody, AAEA Association Communications SIG Co-Chair Managing people is hardly a one size fits all approach. One of the best bosses I ever had once told me – “you’ll notice that I lead each one of you differently – that’s because it’s what you need.”...
