To succeed professionally, continual growth is required. While members of the Hoard's Dairyman editorial staff have a strong command of the English language, photography is not always our strong suit. Yet, we know that images are crucial to catch our readers' attention and draw them in to the text we've put on the page.
In that spirit, our editorial team, with mentorship from the magazine's art director, Ryan Ebert, began taking daylong "photo field trips" in an effort to bolster our photography skills.
The past two years, our travels have taken us to dairies in Northeastern Wisconsin and Iowa. This year, we traveled south and spent a week on operations throughout Illinois and Missouri.
While traveling through these two states, members of the Hoard's Dairyman and Hay & Forage Grower editorial staff had the opportunity to visit nine dairies and two cow/calf operations.
Our art director composed the below video to show you, our readers, what we're doing to make your next issue of Hoard's, our best.
The author, Amanda Smith, was an associate editor and is an animal science graduate of Cornell University. Smith covers feeding, milk quality and heads up the World Dairy Expo Supplement. She grew up on a Medina, N.Y., dairy, and interned at a 1,700-cow western New York dairy, a large New York calf and heifer farm, and studied in New Zealand for one semester.
In that spirit, our editorial team, with mentorship from the magazine's art director, Ryan Ebert, began taking daylong "photo field trips" in an effort to bolster our photography skills.
The past two years, our travels have taken us to dairies in Northeastern Wisconsin and Iowa. This year, we traveled south and spent a week on operations throughout Illinois and Missouri.
While traveling through these two states, members of the Hoard's Dairyman and Hay & Forage Grower editorial staff had the opportunity to visit nine dairies and two cow/calf operations.
Our art director composed the below video to show you, our readers, what we're doing to make your next issue of Hoard's, our best.
The author, Amanda Smith, was an associate editor and is an animal science graduate of Cornell University. Smith covers feeding, milk quality and heads up the World Dairy Expo Supplement. She grew up on a Medina, N.Y., dairy, and interned at a 1,700-cow western New York dairy, a large New York calf and heifer farm, and studied in New Zealand for one semester.
