Looking for the winners from the Agricultural Communicators Network (ACN) and Livestock Publications Council? Let’s get started with ACN. The winners were announced at the 2025 Ag Media Summit on July 29, 2025. Here is a complete list of all the winners. Here are the Skill Excellence Award Winners. And a full list of Contest Results. For photos of awards …
National ACT Officers Elected at Ag Media Summit
The National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (National ACT) elected its 2025-2026 officers at their annual conference held in conjunction with the recent Agricultural Media Summit in Rogers, Ark. The newly elected officers for 2025-2026 are: Emma Heiden, South Dakota State University, president; Wyatt Morrow, Wilmington College, vice president; LaKacee Lipp, South Dakota State University, secretary-treasurer; Lydia Hill, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural …
2024 Ag Media Summit Awards
A big part of the Ag Media Summit are the awards. There are many of them from each organization represented including Livestock Publication Council, The Ag Communicators Network, and National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow. There are photos of all of them in the online summit photo album. I want to highlight two of our best friends that received awards starting …
Talking Retirement at Ag Media Summit
During this year’s Ag Media Summit I talked to a variety of folks about retirement. This included members who have retired, members who retired and went back to work, people who are considering retiring (asking me, “When are you going to retire?”), and one of our keynote speakers, Dr. Chris Kuehl, Armada Corporate Intelligence. He is an economist who not …
The Greg and Gregg Show at AMS
The 25th anniversary of Ag Media Summit was celebrated this week and it was interesting to take a walk back through the history of the event with a couple of guys who have been around for awhile – Gregg Hillyer, Editor In Chief at The Progressive Farmer, and Greg Henderson, Editorial Director at Drovers/Farm Journal. Henderson says AMS basically began …
Ag Media Summit in Full Swing
During the weekend attendees were able to participate in Saturday tours and on Sunday the associations held their board meeting, followed by the 1st Timer Reception and then the Welcome Party with a Roaring 20’s theme. Here’s an example of just a few photos from there. So, now we’re starting with a breakfast, sponsored by Rabobank, and a session on …
ZimmCast 733 – Farm Bill and AMS
Although Cindy and I got a little break from the agriblogging highway things got busy again. In this episode I’m going to share a few interviews that have a focus on a new Farm Bill. What do you think? Is it still possible this year or will it be sometime in 2025? You will hear different thoughts from Ted McKinney, …
Livestock Publications Council Awards
LPC’s Hall of Fame Award was Established in 1990, to honor distinguished livestock publishing leaders. Presenting the award to Diane Johnson is Molly Schoen, Charolais Journal. Diane Johnson, is no stranger the organization, having served more than 20 years as its executive director. During that time, she was a part of the development of the Ag Publications Summit which later …
ZimmCast 716 – A New Podcast and New Presidents
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. Cindy and I are getting a break from the agriblogging highway for a few weeks. We just completed a journey to Des Moines for Tech Hub Live, to San Destin, FL for the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and Palm Springs, CA for the Ag Media Summit. It has been a busy summer and I …
2023 Ag Media Summit Drew a Big Crowd
The 2023 Ag Media Summit is concluding with a tour today but I’m on my way back to ZimmComm World Headquarters. We had a great conference which included 100 USDA communicators joining in for the first day of professional development sessions. It wasn’t all work though as we had fun with the famous welcome party to get things started. Marilyn …