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No bad place to be an ag reporter

by | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine

By Joel Reichenberger, member, ACN Board of Directors Last year, 2024, will always be “the year of the move” in my family, as we left Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb. Anyone who’s talked to or been on a call with me in the last year...

Meet a Member: Courtney Leeper Girgis

by | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine

By Bill Spiegel Like many kids growing up on a farm, Courtney Leeper Girgis knew she wanted to find a career centered around agriculture. But she didn’t know about agricultural communications until she became involved in FFA in high school. As a sophomore at Trenton...

Does Your Boss Know?

by | Jan 10, 2025 | Ag Media Summit, News, The ByLine

By Pam Caraway, ACN President Why do you go to Ag Media Summit? Or why don’t you go to AMS? We’re in the throes of figuring out what AMS will look like in 2025. We know it will be in Rogers, Arkansas. The date is set: July 26-29. When prices jumped after the pandemic,...

Nine Great Books to Read for 2025

by | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine

By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor “Read more books” is one of America’s top New Year’s Resolutions, according to the website GoSkills. It’s a noble goal and one most of us probably wish we could easily adopt. So the crackerjack review team here at the ACN Byline has...
Swiss Agriculture and Ancestry

Swiss Agriculture and Ancestry

by | 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...