Let’s meet the new President of the American Agricultural Editors’ Association, Lauri Bedord. Here’s Laurie presenting now past President Greg Horstmeier his plaque with gavel during the AAEA business meeting at the Ag Media Summit. Laurie says she’s going to have several priorities that include the strategic plan which calls for an increase in membership. She encourages members to get …
New President of LPC
The new President of the Livestock Publications Council is Kathy LaScala. Her term started here at the Ag Media Summit following the organization’s board meeting. Kathy is ready to get to work and make a difference at LPC. She says that under past President Scott Vernon they’ve done research to determine what the membership wants so they can bring them …
Ag Media Summit Closing Banquet
The 2012 Ag Media Summit is nearing the end. Tonight we had a lot of award presentations. I’ll have some of those posted for you soon. After the awards banquet it was time to relax and we did that on the dance floor and in the hallways. Just another time to enjoy fellowship with friends and colleagues in the ag …
Ag Media Summit InfoExpo
Last night the InfoExpo opened for the Ag Media Summit. There are at least 76 companies exhibiting here and developing relationships with ag editors. I’ve interviewed quite a few and will be sharing those in coming days. One of our first time exhibitors is I Love Farmers. They were selling t-shirts, caps and sweat shirts and doing a great business. …
Ag Media Summit Great Debate
It’s called The Great Debate and this morning at the Ag Media Summit we got Part II. Former Congressman Charlie Stenholm and Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh, former ag economist at Kansas State University agree to disagree. With a new farm bill in the making and major crop impacts due to the drought it makes for a lively conversation. I’ve got it …
Famous Ag Media Summit Welcome Party
The Famous Welcome Party at the Ag Media Summit was made possible tonight by sponsors, John Deere, Cattlemen’s Beef Board and Monsanto. The very busy drink station was sponsored by the Southwest, Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest National Agri-Marketing Association Chapters. Thank you to them for a great and famous party. I’ve got lots of photos to share which are …
AAEA Board Update
We’ve heard how things are going with the Livestock Publications Council. Now let’s hear how things are going with the American Agricultural Editors’ Association. To get that update I visited with Greg Horstmeier, DTN/The Progressive Farmer, President of AAEA. Here’s the board on a break during their board meeting today. Greg says AAEA has created a new contest to bring …
Ag Media Boards Meet
Sunday is meeting day for various organizations here at the Ag Media Summit. First up is the Livestock Publications Council board meeting. I hope to get an update on the organization to add to this post a little later this morning. Post Update: After the LPC board meeting I visited with current President Scott Vernon, Cal Poly, pictured in the …
Registration Time for Ag Media Summit
Registration is open now for the Ag Media Summit. These happy smiling faces will get you taken care of and can answer all your questions. Well, most of them anyway. We’ve got a day of meetings like the boards of AAEA and LPC and ACT. I’ll be visiting them and seeing how things are going with these agricultural media organizations …
Ag Media Photographers
The day before the start of the Ag Media Summit farm journalists got to sharpen their photography skills with a “Photography in Action” workshop. Attendees went outside to shoot photos and then came back into the classroom to work on them and have them critiqued by professionals. I always enjoy taking photos of photographers. This one and more are in …