At the AAEA annual meeting the new president took over from Susan Davis, Davis Communications. He’s Dan Crummett, Farm Progress Companies and he’s seen here presenting a recognition plaque to Susan for her service as AAEA president.
I’ll have an interview with Dan for you to listen to in a couple days. According to the reports at the meeting, the organization is doing well with 350 members, 20 new ones in this past year. The organization passed a vote to adopt a new strategic plan and I’ll find details from it to pass along when it’s available.
Today is the last day of the Ag Media Summit and both AAEA and LPC hold their annual meetings, followed by a brunch. At the 
Ag Media Summit chairperson, Betsy Freese presented a special “Vision Award” at today’s luncheon. The award was given to Tom Davis, 
The Ag Media Summit luncheon speaker today was artist, David Williamson from Ogden, IA. David lives in a house that he’s built out the parts of farm buildings that he’s collected over the years. I can only imagine what it must look like.
These agricultural journalists got the attention of the 
This is the latest news from the folks at QuickFarm.
This year’s Ag Media Summit chairperson is Betsy Freese, livestock editor for 
These guys played music all afternoon. I don’t think they ever get tired. I also think you can hear them in the background of every interview I did in the show. I did several and will do more tomorrow. Many of these interviews will be featured on AgWired over coming weeks so stay tuned.
It was a full day at the Ag Media Summit. After golf there were a number of seminars and then the opening of the InfoExpo. This year’s show is the biggest one yet. To kick it off the board members of the participating organizations donned formal attire and escorted each exhibitor in on the red carpet. Pictured is Tom Davis,