Andy Vance, formally with ABN Radio, has officially announced his new gig will be with Feedstuffs.

“I’m very excited to announce that I’m joining Feedstuffs and Feedstuffs Foodlink as a featured contributor, writing for Feedstuffs’ weekly print and online editions, and providing exclusive online audio and video content,” Andy says on his blog “The Angle.”

According to Feedstuffs, Andy starts his new job next week. “The challenges before agriculture today are indeed immense and, by nature, quite complex. They include such critical things as determining the unintended consequences of abandoning the modern food supply chain and even who has the right to impose their beliefs on the plates of others. We are excited to have Andy joining our team to provide his prospective on these and other related issues,” said Sarah Muirhead, Feedstuffs editor and publisher and co-creator of Feedstuffs FoodLink.

Vance is an agricultural journalist, commentator and entrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading agricultural communicators. An active member of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB), he received the 2006 NAFB Horizon Award recognizing excellence in farm broadcasting and promise for the future. He also received the 2009 Excellence in Agriculture Award from the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Most recently, he led the broadcast team at the Agri Broadcast Network, earning the 2010 NAFB Newscast of the Year Award, national runner-up in the 2009 NAFB Newscast and Marketcast of the Year Awards and NAFB News Service Awards in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Vance also has become one of the nation’s foremost authorities on “new” and “social” media in agriculture.

Congrats to Andy and to Feedstuffs on this exciting new partnership! Hope to hear equally good news about Lindsay Hill’s future soon.