Gateway NAMA leaders have begun planning events for the
year. This year we’re planning bi-monthly events that promise to be both
educational and fun!  The first event
will be Tuesday, August 16 – invites will be sent soon!

Suggestions on programing topics, speakers and events are welcome!
Leave a comment below or contact chapter president, Mandy Heth mandy.heth@adfarmonline.com.

There is still time to get involved! If you are interested,
please contact Mandy Heth, mandy.heth@adfarmonline.com.

Join Gateway NAMA on September 15 as we take on the St. Louis Cardinals, or at least cheer them on as they battle arch rivals, the Chicago Cubs!

To kick off a new program year with a bang Gateway NAMA purchased 25 seats in Section 511 and are offering them to members at a discounted rate of $20 a ticket. To sweeten the deal the first round is on us!

We’ll be meeting in front of Gate 6 from 6:45 to 7 p.m. to hand out tickets and collect either cash or check to cover the $20 members are responsible for.

Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis so RSVP early to secure your seat. We will send out a follow up message when the tickets are gone.

RSVP to Gateway NAMA at gatewaynama@yahoo.com.

In support of World Food Day the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is hosting a community awareness program that will not only help educate St. Lousians on the importance of the world hunger issue, but also provide food packets, assembled by the volunteers, for those in need.

The event will be held Friday and Saturday October 15-16. Gateway NAMA has volunteered our services on Saturday, Oct. 16 at 9 a.m. for a one hour food packaging session. In order to fully meet our service promise for the day we need a team of 10-12 volunteers.

To help offset the costs of the food packages each volunteer has a $20 registration fee. Gateway NAMA will cover the registration fee for all members who choose to participate with the group in this volunteer service.

Following the food packaging session volunteers can tour the Center’s labs and greenhouses and speak with members of the international team on these issues.

If you are interested in joining Gateway NAMA in giving back to those in need and taking a stab at world hunger, please RSVP to gatewaynama@yahoo.com by Sept. 6. We would love to have a full team to represent our organization at this event.

Thank you,

Gateway NAMA Leadership Team

Registration is open for this fall’s NAMA Trends In Agriculture program in Kansas City, MO, Nov. 10-11. Get registered if you haven’t done so yet. We’ll have a number of chapter members attending.

With a goal of exploring the changing nature of the agri-marketing industry, NAMA’s 2009 Trends in Agriculture conference will focus on how sociological, technological, and political forces are changing the traditional ag community and on practical ideas agri-marketers can apply to stay engaged in the new marketplace.

Sponsorships for Trends In Agriculture are still available, please contact Jenny Pickett at jennyp@nama.org for more information!

RSVP to jeremy.lutgen@novusint.com by October 29, 2009

Gateway NAMA invites you to join us for a “crash course” in PR and a Cardinals game with the John Brown Scholars of Mizzou.

Head to downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, for an evening of networking with the best and the brightest Mizzou agribusiness students. It’s a great opportunity to engage first-hand with your future employees.

Osborn & Barr will host the “crash course” session at 4:00 p.m. Panelists will include representatives from Monsanto Public Affairs, Monsanto Social Media Group, Elasticity and Osborn & Barr. We’ll be looking at crisis communications – both proactive and reactive – and how social media is changing the game. We’ve asked the Mizzou students to be prepared to share their insights, too.

At 5:15 we’ll head to a local restaurant for a happy hour hosted by Gateway NAMA, and then to the stadium at 6:30 p.m.

Gateway NAMA will cover the happy hour and a portion of your Cardinals ticket; we just ask that Gateway members pay $10 per ticket. RSVP to gatewaynama@yahoo.com by Tuesday, April 2. We are also sponsoring the transportation and game tickets for the John Brown scholars and faculty.

The John Brown Scholars Program was initiated in 1983 by John E. Brown, a prominent St. Louis agribusinessman. The program consists of 16 qualified upperclassmen in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR). These students must be of junior or higher standing and enrolled in CAFNR, as well as maintain a 2.5 minimum GPA.

Hello Gateway NAMA fans. It’s a new year of meetings and maybe we’ll get some more content posted on this website. Any volunteers?

So, if you’re going to be in KC, MO this week for Trends In Agriculture then please plan to attend our chapter get together on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s the details:

Location: Empire Room C – Hyatt Regency Crown Center

When: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00PM

Greetings Gateway NAMA Members! If you’ll be in Kansas City for the NAMA “Trends in Agriculture” session join other members of the Gateway NAMA chapter at a social/networking event the afternoon of Nov. 12th. We’ll be hosting an hour of Cuban-themed fun in Empire Room C of the Hyatt Crown Center featuring mojitos, chips and salsa/guacamole and fresh fruit. Come meet other members of the chapter and enjoy some fun on us!

Get registered here.

If you didn’t attend our Happy Hour last night then you missed a fun party.

It was an opportunity to network with your fellow chapter members and for those who did attend, we got to catch up on things and learn more about what each is doing. It’s a great way to learn and exchange ideas with others in our profession.

Here’s a couple of our happy hour attendees who were part of an interview I did before we got too happy. You can listen to that interview here: Gateway Happy Hour Interview (3 minutes)