The fledgling Women in Ag Tech (WiAT) organization held its second in-person meeting ever prior to the opening of the VISION Conference in Glendale, Arizona this week. While the group of women meeting was a bit smaller than the first meeting last year at Tech Hub LIVE, they are mighty, brilliant, and filled with enthusiasm to grow the ag tech …
Agricultural Relations Council Golden ARC Awards
The Agricultural Relations Council met last week in Des Moines and (ARC) inducted two members into the Agricultural Public Relations Hall of Fame during the Golden ARC Awards Banquet. The new members are Janice Person, Grounded Communications CEO/founder and Deron Johnson, Curious Plot executive vice president, chief brand & culture officer. This award is given to agricultural public relations professionals …
Congratulations to NAMA 2022 PDA Award Winners
During the 2022 NAMA Fall Conference the winners of the organization’s Professional Development Awards of Excellence are presented their awards. In the photo is Lori Hallowell, Bader Rutter, who received the PDA for Public Relations. Presenting are NAMA President, Deron Johnson, Curious Plot and Don Tourte, Farm Progress, the sponsor of the awards. Lori made remarks after receiving her award …
Congrats to #ARCinMKE Winners
The Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) 2022 Golden ARC Awards winners were announced last week in Milwaukee, during the group’s annual meeting. MorganMyers won the Golden ARC de Excellence Award – the contest’s best all-around entry in the campaigns division – for its “The SCN Coalition: Battling A Bug to Improve America’s Soybean Profitability and Sustainability” entry in the PR Campaigns …
ZimmCast 679 – Public Relations Professionals
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. After missing it for a few years I was able to attend the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) Annual Meeting which took place in Richmond, VA. We had a good turnout with some great sessions. I interviewed several of the attendees. More on that in a moment. The Golden ARC Awards, which …
The 2021 ARC Annual Meeting
The 2021 Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) Annual Meeting is taking place in Richmond, VA, in-person. The program includes several panel discussions with ag editors, ag organizations that work in Washington, DC and annual award presentations. I’ll have interviews to share and of course, lots of photos. Thursday will be tour day so most of that content will be published after …
ZimmCast 678 – Preview of the 2021 ARC Annual Meeting
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. It is #InternationalPodcastDay today. A lovely day to publish a podcast. This will be the second podcast we’ve published an episode of today! In this program we’re going to get a preview of the 2021 Agricultural Relations Council Annual Meeting. Providing the details is Kristy Mach, Corner Window Communications and Executive Director of ARC. …
New BASF PR Manager
Congratulations to Miracle King Wilson (pictured) who is the new PR Manager for BASF Agricultural Solutions. Congrats also go to Odessa P. Hines who has moved into the position of BASF Ag Solutions External Affairs Manager. In her role, Miracle will be responsible for “providing strategic PR direction and counsel for company product launches and key initiatives; managing media inquiries, …
ARC Foundation Receives Major Endowment Gift
The Agricultural Relations Council/C.O.nxt Scholarship Program has received a very generous donation. Lyle Orwig, founder of Charleston|Orwig, now rebranded as C.O.nxt, has generously fully funded the Agricultural Relations Council/C.O.nxt Scholarship Program with a recent contribution of $75,000. It is part of an endowment established within the ARC Foundation a couple years ago. A long-time champion of agricultural public relations/public affairs, …
Happy Birthday AgNewsWire!
Fifteen years ago this month, ZimmComm introduced an “innovative news distribution service for agriculture” called AgNewsWire, which has since become “Agriculture’s Virtual Newsroom” and a trusted source for agribusiness news and content from industry events. In the new virtual reality of COVID-19, AgNewsWire is more relevant than ever. Two recent examples of virtual newsrooms this year are the Cattle Industry …