by AgCommNetwork | Jun 14, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Events, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor When you come to Kansas City next month for the Ag Media Summit, you should say hello to Julie Deering. Not only is Julie a long-time ACN member, past president and leads the Professional Improvement Foundation, she also is the steering...
by AgCommNetwork | Jun 13, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Awards, Student News, The ByLine
By Courtney Leeper Girgis, Future Ag Communicators Committee Chair The Future Ag Communicators Committee is excited to announce this year’s two Ag Communicators Network scholarship recipients: Kesley Holdgrafer and Jackie Miller, both agricultural communications...
by AgCommNetwork | Jun 13, 2024 | Ag Policy, News, The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Brooks Lamb, American Farmland Trust Imagine that you live on a 200-acre farm. It’s a productive place, filled with open fields and healthy forests. Perhaps there’s a creek that meanders along the eastern boundary. Maybe your cattle graze the back pastures while...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Jun 13, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, Awards, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist As Ag Media Summit fast approaches, be sure to mark your calendars for the following ACN-related events (all times local). We can’t wait to see you in Kansas City! Welcome Party Sunday, August 4th from 6:30-9:30 PM...
by AgCommNetwork | May 9, 2024 | AAEA News, Member Resources, News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Some of Adrienne Held’s favorite memories as a little girl are of the weekends and summers she spent at her grandparent’s place, helping them tend to their strawberry patch. Those wide open spaces and the purposeful labor of growing,...
by AgCommNetwork | May 9, 2024 | Ag Media Summit, What I Learned, Writing
By Martha Mintz, ACN President How many stories have you written about practices that restore, regenerate, rebuild, or reinvigorate? More than a few, I’d bet. I just finished one, and you’re reading yet another. This one isn’t about tending the usual flora and fauna,...
