Farm Progress

Send information on your pertinent meetings, seminars and field days to be included in our calendar of events.Preferred format helps get event published.

Ron Smith 1, Senior Content Director

June 7, 2013

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Southwest Farm Press invites agencies, research centers, commodity organizations and other agricultural industry entities to send information on your pertinent meetings, seminars and field days to be included in our calendar of events.

Unfortunately, we may not be able to publish every press release and all the details relevant to each meeting. So, here’s what we suggest: In each meeting announcement, include in one paragraph the date(s), name of the event, location and contact information.

Something like this:

June 25 – A Pasture Weed and Brush Control Field Day will be at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, 773 Ag Farm Road, two miles west of State Highway 317 on Farm Road 2671 near McGregor. It begins at 8 a.m. and concludes with lunch at noon. Pre-registration is requested at the McLennan County office of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, 254-757-5180

This shortened format will make it easy for Farm Press editorial staff to post the information in our calendar.

We invite you to continue to send us detailed releases, especially for major regional meetings that appeal to a large segment of our audience. We will post those in the relevant sections of our webpage and in our print issues as well.

Also, for inclusion in the print edition of Southwest Farm Press, please send your notices as far ahead of the event as possible to give us time to publish in time for your audience to respond.

If you have questions, please email Southwest Farm Press Editor Ron Smith at [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you and to assist in every way we can to alert Southwest farmers, ranchers and industry folk to your events.  

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Southwest Calendar of Events

About the Author(s)

Ron Smith 1

Senior Content Director, Farm Press/Farm Progress

Ron Smith has spent more than 40 years covering Sunbelt agriculture. Ron began his career in agricultural journalism as an Experiment Station and Extension editor at Clemson University, where he earned a Masters Degree in English in 1975. He served as associate editor for Southeast Farm Press from 1978 through 1989. In 1990, Smith helped launch Southern Turf Management Magazine and served as editor. He also helped launch two other regional Turf and Landscape publications and launched and edited Florida Grove and Vegetable Management for the Farm Press Group. Within two years of launch, the turf magazines were well-respected, award-winning publications. Ron has received numerous awards for writing and photography in both agriculture and landscape journalism. He is past president of The Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association and was chosen as the first media representative to the University of Georgia College of Agriculture Advisory Board. He was named Communicator of the Year for the Metropolitan Atlanta Agricultural Communicators Association. More recently, he was awarded the Norman Borlaug Lifetime Achievement Award by the Texas Plant Protection Association. Smith also worked in public relations, specializing in media relations for agricultural companies. Ron lives with his wife Pat in Johnson City, Tenn. They have two grown children, Stacey and Nick, and three grandsons, Aaron, Hunter and Walker.

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