by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | Freelance, Member Resources, Professional Development, What I Learned, Writing
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor More seasoned members of this group will recall the days when editors used a “cassette recorder” to record interviews. Transcribing these cassettes was painstaking and arguably the worst part of agricultural communications. When I was...
by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | AAEA News, News, The ByLine
By Martha Mintz, ACN President It’s a bustling season for ag communicators. Many of you are recovering from CattleCon; others are gearing up for Commodity Classic. Then, of course, there are those doing both or attending any number of other industry meetings of...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Feb 9, 2024 | Events, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist In honor of Black History Month and injunction with our new DEI initiative, we are celebrating and sharing five Black innovators in agriculture. Henry Blair Blair (1807-1860) was an African American inventor who...
by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | AAEA News, Awards, Events, Member Resources, News, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel
By Katie Knapp, International Committee Chair and ACN Board Member Would you like to go to Switzerland this summer, learn more about agriculture from a global perspective, AND level up your leadership skills? If so and you are 35 or younger as of December 31, 2024,...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Ryan Tipps In 2007, when I traveled to Norway for my honeymoon, I saw a farmer using a scythe to harvest wheat. While I had certainly seen aged scythes among the aisles of antique shops and in historic photos, I had never seen one actively used in the real world....
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 12, 2024 | The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor On a cold, winter day in January, ACN President Martha Mintz felt exhausted. On the ACN Facebook page, she wrote: “I needed this reminder to stop and center myself. I pictured sitting right next to a wheat field that’s just starting to...
