The executive committee of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) began meeting this morning with a report from president Mike Wilson of Farm Progress Companies. Mike reported that the organization is working on increasing membership from different countries and that the website is becoming a more effective tool in getting information out about what IFAJ is and what it …
Beautiful Start to IFAJ 2009
It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Ft. Worth today as our international visitors began arriving for the 2009 IFAJ Congress. The hospitality room was open in the president’s suite of the Worthington Renaissance and everyone gathered out on the terrace overlooking downtown and enjoyed the unseasonably pleasant Texas summer weather. Business meetings for the executive committee will start in …
Travel Day To Ft. Worth, TX
Today Cindy and Carly will be heading to Ft. Worth, TX for the combined IFAJ Congress/Ag Media Summit. I’m sure going to miss everyone but that doesn’t mean I won’t be lurking online! Since so many Twittering friends will be attending this week please use the #AgMS hashtag in your tweets so we can all follow along. The program is …
Ag Relations Council Silent Auction
While you’re attending this year’s Agricultural Media Summit/IFAJ Congress you’ll have a chance to support student attendees and ARC. In fact, you can help out right now by donating an item for the auction. Auction proceeds will go toward underwriting a lowered student registration fee for AMS, thus ensuring participation by the maximum number of potential industry newcomers. We need …
International Journalists at World Ag Congress
Last week’s World Agricultural Forum World Ag Congress attracted a great crop of journalists, both locally and internationally. Pictured here interviewing keynote speaker Paul Collier (left) are two leaders of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) – current president Mike Wilson with Farm Futures magazine and senior vice president Markus Rediger of Switzerland’s LID Agricultural Information Center. Read Mike’s …
Find IFAJ On Twitter
Have you made your reservation for the IFAJ Congress/Ag Media Summit yet? We’ve got ours in. To help you keep up with what’s going on at this year’s IFAJ Congress a new Twitter account has been set up: @IFAJ. The beautiful background is the U.S. delegation to last year’s IFAJ Congress. For you Twitter experts, please remember to use the …
Tour de Texas This Summer
Thank you to Greg Lamp for pointing out that you can attend post IFAJ/AMS tours this year even if you’re not a member of AAEA, LPC or IFAJ. So how about some NAFB’ers joining in the fun? Looking for a whole new way of seeing the U.S.A. this summer? Look no further. The Ag Media Summit in conjunction with the …
IFAJ-AMS Planning Committee Meets
I found the IFAJ/AMS planning committee meeting. Fortunately for me I walked in just as it ended! Actually I just couldn’t get there earlier but I wanted to. If you haven’t registered yet for this year’s combined meeting please try to do so soon. I interviewed Andy Atzenweiler and will post it when I get back to my room later. …
Update on IFAJ and Ag Media Summit
In this week’s program we’ll get an update on the IFAJ and Ag Media Summit program from Joann Alumbaugh, Farms.com. Joann is co-chair of the program committee this year. Our planning committee for the conference met after Commodity Classic in the Worthington Hotel, Ft. Worth, which is where we’ll be at the end of July and first of August. To …
IFAJ and AMS Planning Meeting
The IFAJ/AMS planning committee got together since so many of us ag media types were in town for Commodity Classic. Yesterday the group went to Billy Bob’s and the Stockyards before heading to the upcoming conference hotel, the Worthington Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. Cindy and I joined the group for a reception meeting last night. The local convention and …