LPC board member, Cindy Cunningham, assistant vice president of communications for the National Pork Board will present a session at the upcoming National Agri Marketing Assn (NAMA) Convention in Kansas City. She'll share how they developed and implemented their emergency response plan on the H1N1 debacle. Cindy was certainly on the front line for this and I'm sure this will be worth attending. More details at www.nama.org.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedia Inc. has named Broadhead+Co. as agency-of-record for maketing communications services for all of its cattle brands in the North American market. LPC board member, Stephanie Hoult is one of the senior account execs and Lori Maude, the senior PR manager. Lori is a past board member and LPC president. BI and Broadhead are also LPC members.

Congratulations to John Walter executive editor at Successful Farming who was named as one of the nation's leaders in social media by Media Industry News. He's in the top 21 Social Media Superstars. Way to go John!

Osborn & Barr Communications announces the retirement of co-founder Joe Osborn. He'll continue to stay in a consulting role and the new management team will be made up of co-founder Steve Barr, CEO Michael Turley and CFO Rhonda Ries-Aguilar.

Cliff Becker is leaving Vance Publishing to join Charlie Arnot at CMA Consulting. Their mission statement is: "helps clients develop and implement sustainable solutions in issues management, public relations, strategic facilitation and marketing communications". Looks like a new member to me! Congratulations Cliff on a very successful career at Vance.