University of Illinois NAMA

03/02/2016

Got a check from a NAMA ALUM (Thanks Ben Rakes) to support the team -- CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!! -- Anyone else want to contribute to help offset costs for us to go to Kansas City???

09/12/2015

Congratulations to UI NAMA students Chelsea, Tyler and Kolten, who were among the eight Orion Samuelson Scholarship winners at today's Salute to Ag Day.

08/04/2015

The National Agri-Marketing Association continues an opportunity started last year for sharing student resumes. NAMA will gather resumes over the next month and then share them with the companies listed below, just in time for spring and summer internship and career opportunities.

If you are interested, please email your resumes, by September 10, to [email protected]. The subject line of their email AND the title of the document must be your complete school name, last name, first name. Example: University of Kansas - Brummel Debbie.

Your resume must be no more than two pages and must be either a Word or PDF document. No paper copies will be accepted.

Here are the NAMA-member companies that will receive the resumes:
AdFarm
Agri Marketing Magazine
Bayer CropScience
Brighton Agency
Broadhead
Carbon Media Group
Farm Credit
Farm Journal Mobile
GROWMARK Inc.
High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal
John Deere
Meredith Agrimedia
Monsanto
National Association of Farm Broadcasting
Paulsen
Penton Agriculture
Rhea + Kaiser
Syngenta
ZimmComm New Media

Any questions? Contact Wendy Feik Pinkerton, UI NAMA Chapter Advisor, cell: 217-637-1428.

05/07/2015

Congratulations to our new group of officers for the 2015-2016 year!

President: Thomas Weger
Vice-President: Lance Curtis
Treasurer: John Kim
Secretary: Kolten Postin
Fundraising chairs: Chelsea Verbeck and Breanna Shick
Recruitment chairs: Collin Busby and Andy Gathman

04/17/2015

Here's our stellar, best-dressed team!

04/16/2015

No surprise here! We were voted "best dressed" with our sweet orange and blue pride!

04/15/2015

While we didn't get as far as we would have liked, we laid our best out on the line and looked REALLY good doing it. Congratulations to all of the teams moving on to the semi-finals...we'll be back again next year ready to go again!

04/15/2015

I L L !

We are up bright and early this morning, getting a quick practice in before we compete in our preliminary heat! Wish us luck! Also, how about those orange pants?!

04/15/2015

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04/15/2015

We are up bright and early this morning, getting a quick practice in before we compete in our preliminary heat! Wish us luck! Also, how about those orange pants?!

04/02/2015

NAMA alums -- the students are getting ready for KC in a couple weeks! Have you made your annual commitment donation to help fellow students?? Do it online NOW!!! https://ace.illinois.edu/giving

Your support of the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics helps prepare our students for future careers, empower our faculty to conduct impactful research, and support ongoing projects like farmdoc.

04/01/2015

Our NAMA members had their first dress rehearsal of the presentation this evening in front of faculty and industry professionals. Thank you to everyone who attended. You provided great questions and feedback to help us better prepare for competition in less than two weeks!