The National Farm-City Council will hold it’s annual National Farm-City Week Symposium (pdf) on November 18 in Lancaster, PA. I’ll be there on the panel with an “Agvocacy” message. If you’d like to attend please get your ticket order in soon. BTW. Our panel will be part of a live AgriTalk broadcast that morning.
The 2010 National Farm-City Week Symposium will address the topic “Agriculture: A Growing Story” with a panel of distinguished experts in media and agriculture. The purpose of this Symposium is to explore friendly methods that can help assist the urban media when preparing news or feature stories that could significantly and negatively impact farmers, ranchers and the many agribusiness industries.
“Today, the chances of incorrect information on agricultural issues being mistakenly passed to the general public are not only a possibility – it is a reality that has caused serious financial damage and hardship to farmers, ranchers and others within the industry,” says Al Pell, noted national agricultural broadcaster and chairman of the National Farm-City Council.
“The goal of this Symposium is to consider tools with which local, state and national agricultural leaders and organizations can use to assure that the information obtained by the media is from reliable and credible sources. With a successful merging of efforts with the urban media, we can more confidently be assured that accuracy will be paramount in communicating this growing story of agriculture.”
You can bet I’ll be pointing to the AgChat Foundation which has grown quickly and become a significant source of information for farm agvocates and those who want to be. Here’s an interview with two of our founding board members that was conducted at the recent 140 Character Conference at Connected Marketing Week 2010 in San Francisco.