The Agricultural Relations Council announced the winners of their 2007 ARC of Excellence Scholarship Program today and two of the recipients were in attendance to receive them.
First of all we have Melissa Leander, Kansas State, pictured here with ARC president Bob Giblin.
They’ll receive $500 each from the organization.
The next recipient is Katie Allen, University of Missouri.
She was here with her Dad but I couldn’t talk him into getting into the picture.
Not attending today is Jill Goetz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
In addition to handing out the scholarships we got an update on the Golden ARC Awards which will be returning to life this fall. More information on them will be forthcoming.
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This week I’m attending the Agricultural Media Summit. As if you didn’t know that by now. So this week’s program is a live demo for my “Podcasting For Publishers” session.
credits you need to listen to this program. It’s a great potential extra income source for farmers and as our speaker said yesterday, we’re going to see more and more programs like this.
InfoExpo officially kicked off with a reception this afternoon. There is a lot to see and talk about in this year’s show because it’s bigger and better than ever.
Ralph Grossi, President, 
Getting back to the AMS Idol contest, here’s all the contestants.
This is why I like taking the pictures as opposed to being in them. Poking my head through an animal cutout would not be the way I want to be remembered but hey, I take the pics when they ask.
The winner of the first AMS Idol contest is Angie Greving, 
If you didn’t make it to the AMS Idol competition then never fear. AgWired is here (or was there).