by Mary Kendall Dixon | Oct 5, 2018 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Gregg Hillyer I hear the alarm, but it seems miles away as I try to clear my mind from its deep slumber. My hand fumbles for the iPhone resting on the night stand to silence the annoying chimes piercing the lightless room. It’s 4 a.m. and not even the roosters are...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
Ag Media Summit 2018 can be summed up in one word: inspiring! As a first-time attendee, I came with expectations; but it was the things I didn’t expect that pushed the conference into the category of excellence. I expected Ag Media Summit’s convergence of ag...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Greg Lamp, 2018 IFAJ stipend recipient By all accounts, Makandra is a small farm, really small. Yet every day as many as 25 workers, called clients, show up to hand tend 10 acres on the estate located on the outskirts of Ede, a municipality in central Netherlands...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 6, 2018 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Kenna Rathai, IFAJ 2018 stipend recipient and IFAJ 2019 program committee chair Hello, bonjour, hej, goededag, terve, guten tag, gamarjoba, dia dhuit, ciao, konnichiwa, salut, privet, pozdrafljeni, habari, Sali, vitayu! Many of this year’s AAEA: Ag Communicators...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 17, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Kellie Lasack, Alltech Cultivating Young Journalists Award Winner and AMS First-Time Attendee Stipend Winner This year’s Ag Media Summit was one for the books. Not only was the venue amazing, but the experience left me feeling energized and ready to move mountains....
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 17, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
The AAEA internship is definitely a unique experience. From planning speaker panels for global agricultural companies at Padilla to crafting centerpieces at Ag Media Summit, amazingly unique is the best way I can describe it. Getting to work for not one, but two great...