The North American Agricultural Journalists annual meeting is over and some awards were presented. It looks like a big winner is Top Producer magazine.
TOP PRODUCER magazine, the leading business magazine for commercial farmers, recently took both first and second place in the North American Agricultural Journalists (NAAJ) annual writing contest in the “Series” category with its editorial coverage of two major agricultural industry issues – biofuels and transportation. Awards were presented at the NAAJ annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.
“Titans of Biofuels” earned first place honors for its series of stories profiling major biofuel manufacturers. The series, featured in fall 2006 issues of TOP PRODUCER, included the stories “Move Over Main Street,” October; “The Little Co-Op That Could,” October; “Over a Barrel,” November; and “Commander of the Fleet,” December.
Placing second was the TOP PRODUCER multi-story package on transportation issues in agriculture collectively titled “Freight Gridlock.” The series ran in the September 2006 issue of the magazine and included the articles “Rush Hour on the Rails” by Marcia Taylor, “No Budge on Barge Rates” by Jeanne Bernick and “Smooth Sailing on the Seas” by Linda H. Smith.