Congratulations to Betsy Freese, Living the Country Life, the winner of the drawing for an Apple Gift Card.  She registered for the 2013 Agri-Marketing Conference by December 31, 2012!

A few days are left to nominate the cream of the crop – Agribusiness Leader of the Year and NAMA Marketer of the Year.

Click here to view a list of current and past winners for Agribusiness Leader of the Year and NAMA Marketer of the Year.

The winners of these prestigious awards will be honored at the 2013 Agri-Marketing Conference, April 17 – 19, in Kansas City.  Celebrate the achievements and impressive careers of the very best in agriculture with NAMA.

Submission deadline is January 18, 2013.  Visit nama.org and click “Awards” to find nomination forms.

Mark your calendars for these important dates to upcoming NAMA Conferences and NAMA Industry Partnership events.

Upcoming Industry Partnership Events –

March 1
NAMA/AAEA Reception at Commodity Classic sponsored by BASF, Great Plains NAMA and Rocky Mountain NAMA (4:30 – 6:00 p.m.)
Kissimmee, Florida

March 18 & 19
National Ag Day
Washington, DC

Future Conference Locations:

April 17-19, 2013
Kansas City, MO

April 9-11, 2014
Jacksonville, FL

April 15-17, 2015
Kansas City, MO

April 13-15, 2016
Kansas City, MO

April 26-28, 2017
Dallas, TX

April 11-13, 2018
Kansas City, MO

April 10-12, 2019
Kansas City, MO

TEAM NAMA is a group of professional NAMA members who review Student Chapter marketing plans and provide input back to the teams in advance of their Marketing Competition, which is held in conjunction with NAMA’s annual Agri-Marketing Conference in April each year.

Each TEAM NAMA volunteer is asked to critique two student chapter marketing plans. The estimated time commitment is approximately 2-3 hours total in ealy February.  The following student chapters intend to participate in TEAM NAMA this year:

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
Delaware Valley College
Illinois State University
Iowa State University
Kansas State University
Michigan State University
New Mexico State University
Purdue University
Sam Houston State University
Texas A&M University, Kingsville
The Ohio State University
University of Florida
University of Guelph
University of Illinois
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Nebraska
University of Saskatchewan
University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Please volunteer, by emailing Janelle Buxton, Careers Committee TEAM NAMA Coordinator, at [email protected].  Thank you, in advance, for your help!

There was a thunderous response to the call for Best of NAMA entries with over 1400 submitted for Regional Judging on November 6th & 7th.  This is the  highest amount we have seen since 1999!

Thank you to every agency and company that submitted their best work for consideration.  Every submission strengthens local NAMA chapters and showcases the talent and vitality of NAMA members.

A special thanks to our 40 plus wonderful judges who participated in the judging process that took place at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City.   This program could not be successful without their help and expertise.

We hope to see you at a regional or chapter banquet in January to see the results of your hard work.  Check out  https://www.namablog.org/?page_id=16 for banquet dates and locations.  Be sure to check back often as  details are still being finalized.

The deadline for the 2012 Best of NAMA competition is October 12.  Regional judging is set for November 6-7, 2012.

The Best of NAMA awards program honors the best work in agricultural communications. Actually, the best of the best, since companies/agencies must first qualify through regional competition in order to advance to the national level. The national awards ceremony will take place April 17, 2013, at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City.

Thanks to a new microsite created by Paulsen Marketing, you can upload digital entries for Best of NAMA this year. So your best work from radio, TV, broadcast news, blogs, websites and banners can be viewed—or heard—and judged in the medium for which they were created. Submissions for the print ads and collateral will still require physical samples for judging.

Click here for  Call for Entries details.  Thanks to Broadhead for the design of the Call For Entries.

NAMA is mourning the loss of a former member/student advisor and friend, Dr. Sabry Shehata.  Dr. Shehata was a professor with the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management at the University of Hawaii.  He was  the NAMA Student Advisor since 1992 and coached the University of Hawaii student NAMA teams. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Shehata family.