The North American Agricultural Journalists annual meeting is over and some awards were presented. It looks like a big winner is Top Producer magazine.
TOP PRODUCER magazine, the leading business magazine for commercial farmers, recently took both first and second place in the North American Agricultural Journalists (NAAJ) annual writing contest in the “Series” category with its editorial coverage of two major agricultural industry issues – biofuels and transportation. Awards were presented at the NAAJ annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.
“Titans of Biofuels” earned first place honors for its series of stories profiling major biofuel manufacturers. The series, featured in fall 2006 issues of TOP PRODUCER, included the stories “Move Over Main Street,” October; “The Little Co-Op That Could,” October; “Over a Barrel,” November; and “Commander of the Fleet,” December.
Placing second was the TOP PRODUCER multi-story package on transportation issues in agriculture collectively titled “Freight Gridlock.” The series ran in the September 2006 issue of the magazine and included the articles “Rush Hour on the Rails” by Marcia Taylor, “No Budge on Barge Rates” by Jeanne Bernick and “Smooth Sailing on the Seas” by Linda H. Smith.
It looks like Living The Country Life is getting a big boost now that Meredith has teamed up with 
Capturing and serving the growing affluent rural lifestyle market is the goal of a newly created joint venture announced by Meredith Corporation and Learfield Communications, Inc. Learfield is purchasing an ownership stake in the Living the Country Life brand which will be managed jointly by the two companies under the name Living the Country Life LLC. Meredith will maintain controlling interest in the new company. 
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Here’s Kelly Dietrich, Dan Conner both Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative, Matthew Peebles, national beef ambassador and Jean O’Toole, NEBPI serving up some beef at this year’s Boston Marathon.
It looks like the ag business is good for 
Sarah Brown also joins Quarry as a Public Relations Specialist, working out of the Waterloo, Ontario office. 
I am constantly asked who visits AgWired and I wish I could provide some sort of answer that includes all your names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. However, that would violate privacy (if I even had it). Besides this website is all about you deciding to visit and not have to register and log in. That’s just so annoying isn’t it? Basically, I give freely and you get something I hope you like and find useful and entertaining.
It’s my understanding that the 
I’m assuming that with all the talk in America about obesity and research like the following that it’s only a matter of time until we have a law saying getting fat it illegal. I can even see somebody thinking we should outlaw fast food places or some such stupid thing. Maybe it’s already in the works. I hope people will come to realize that no law will control this. Things will only change if and when people take more personal responsibility for their actions and that includes eating. I don’t think I’m overweight but I still enjoy a hamburger, large fries and a root beer!