Its a New Year and a new LPC
Welcome to the first post for LPC on its new blog feature. This will be the new means of communication for LPC and hopefully you will get in the habit of checking it sign up for the RSS feed or become...
View ArticleLPC Luncheon at NCBA Convention in San Antonio
For the first time this luncheon is being cosponsored by IntervetScheringPlough Animal Health and will recognize the 2009 LPC Forrest Bassford Student Award Winner Whitney Wallace from the Universit
View ArticleMajor Changes to Contest for 2010
After many hours and years of discussion the Critique Contest has been radically changed after 34 years of basically the same format. We have listened to your comments and swirled them around in our...
View ArticleRevisions to Best of the Bunch Photo Contest
Another contest that has been around for years is the everpopular Best of the Bunch Photo Contest that takes place at the Ag Media Summit you can enter photos without attending though. There are four...
View ArticleGetting used to the blog!
I39m trying to repost information from last week39s email that was sent out regarding new developments for LPC plus am adding new items of interest. Once I get in the rhythm and get a bit more...
View ArticleNational Swine Registry adds two to staff
The National Swine Registry announces two new hires including new Field Representative Michael Lackey of Parker Colo and Alan Duttlinger of Hebron Ind. as Director of the National Junior Swine...
View ArticleOne of my goals for the new blog
Through the years one of the things that I have missed being able to do is comment on the variety of items I see in your publications. I receive over 60 monthly mags and I39m not sure how many weekly...
View ArticleRecent items of interest
The Hereford World has been celebrating 100 years of publishing about Herefords. Its not necessarily 100 years of the Hereford World since the name has changed and the merger of the Polled Hereford and...
View ArticleEven Bill Gates reads our magazines!
In the January 2010 issue of Drovers there was a plethora of letters to the editor in regards to a November 2009 article Billionarie philantropist advocate for agriculture. Well Bill and Melinda sent a...
View ArticleDeLaval Customer Appreciation Dinner at World Ag Expo
The folks at DeLaval asked me to promote their upcoming event during the World Ag Expo in Tulare California. Customer Appreciation Dinner February 9 in Exeter CA. Cocktails at 530 pm followed by...
View ArticleNCBA in San Antonio
It appears from other blogs and Facebook entries that a lot of people are headed to San Antonio for National Cattlemen39s Beef Assn. Convention. Well I39m on my way too. For those of you from the...
View ArticleOklahoma Family Chosen for TV Show has Close Ties to Cattle Industry
We have had an exciting event happen with some of our friends in the cattle business. Read on It39s official! The popular television show Extreme Makeover Home Edition has just quotknocked on the...
View ArticleUpdate on Extreme Makeover Home Edition
I have been overwhelmed with comments regarding this family who has been selected for the Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Since they are closely related to the cattle business plus friends of many LPC...
View Article2009 LPC Headliner Award Winner Temple Grandin and her movie
The premiere of the HBO original movie quotTemple Grandinquot will air this Saturday February 6 on HBO. Claire Danes stars as the title character and costars Catherine O39Hara and David Strathaim....
View ArticleAg Day Contest kids only apply
Calling all parents with kids who are in the 7th to 12th grades. The Agriculture Council of America is hosting an essay contest with a theme of quotAmerican Agriculture Abundant Affordable Amazing.quot...
View ArticleStudent Award Applications due Feb. 15
Scholarship applications for the Forrest Bassford Student Award sponsored by LPC and IntervetScheringPlough are available on the Web site and due on February 15 2010. The top winner will receive a 1500...
View Article2010 National ACT Professional Development Conference
The National Ag Communicators of Tomorrow are hosting their annual conference in Stephenville Texas. Several LPC members are helping as workshop leaders and are listed in bold. For more information...
View ArticleOklahoma Pork Council and EMHE
LPC member Oklahoma Pork Council is a proud sponsor here at the Extreme Makeover Home Edition site near Lexington Oklahoma. Word is they were the sponsor of last night39s dinner for area realtors. I39m...
View ArticleUpdate on Extreme Makeover Home Edition 2
You can see a story picked up by AgWeb on the EMHE story that we have been following. The bus will move tomorrow afternoon! Brand new house for a deserving Skaggs family. httpwww.agweb.com
View ArticleHigh Plains Journal Editorial Intern
Are you interested in combining all facets of agricultural communications into one summer internship? Do you want to gain experience in writing photography and digital media?Read full description here...
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