This week I was able to talk with United Suppliers and get the ads in the seed guide approved, and hopefully I will send the final seed guide to the printer on Monday. On Monday this week I finished the seed guide. Tuesday I took pictures for the weekly crop report. Wednesday I did one last spring of the seed guide. Thursday I wrote the news letter and fixed the text messaging program for a customer. Friday I spent the day in grain marketing to see what they do while helping put in trucking reports into the computer. I enjoyed having the ability to see what another department does. I learned a lot of new things this week and enjoyed learning about another department.

This week was a week full of editing, proofing, and more. Monday the printer employee came in to help me print without the pages being upside down, and I made copies for all employee’s to proof. Then I got all the edits back from Syngenta and I put the Liberty Link Logo’s in. Then on Tuesday my supervisor did the first proof and we worked on making changes to the wording of things, and setting up pages. Wednesday I worked on an ad for the Applebutter Fest. Then on Thursday I worked all day on formatting the seed guide. Today I have gotten the official okay on the seed guide and it is ready to be sent to the seed salesman to look at so they can approve all numbers. Once that is approved we will send the book to the printer next week.

This week was a fun week where I was able to run the first color copy of the seed guide and send it to companies like Monsanto to check for logos and legals. Then on Tuesday I went to photograph a corn field for the website tracker. Tuesday I also got to see the seed depth key chains that I helped to design in person (we also lost ac this day and broke a record high of 96 degrees outside). Wednesday I fixed any mistakes that were found by the other companies when they reviewed the seed guide. On Thursday my supervisor had set up a print shop tour and I was able to go see how the printing process worked. On Friday I worked with a representative from a printing company to try and print the seed guide here in the office, it did not work, so she will be in Monday to help us.   

This was a short week for me, because I spent Monday-Wednesday at the Ohio State Livestock Judging Camp as a Camp Counselor. However, on Thursday I was able to print my first copy of the seed guide and proof read it on paper, which made checking for errors much easier. Then today the seed sales manager looked at the seed guide for the first time on the big screen and approved my work. They want me to make small graph changes. Except for the small graph formatting change they approved everything and we will start sedning it out to other people for proof reading next week.

This week I had the opportunity to do some different tasks than normal. Monday we had off for the holiday, but on Tuesday I had the opportunity to write two articles for the news letter. The first article was about Cedar Point tickets for customer appreciation. The second article was about the REACH Program and the kids tour of the Graytown Agronomy Center. On Wednesday I worked on the seed guide and and tried making different covers using indesign, photoshop, and illustrator. On Wednesday I also had the opportunity to sit in on another apparel meeting and help pick out hats that will go to the farmers. On Thursday I went to Graytown to meet with the Videographer while he interviewed employees for a video thats in the process of being made for the website. Today (Friday) I am spending most of the day entering charts and editing the seed guide and also helping design a cover for this months news letter. I have learned a lot this week and have had the opportunity to meet with more people in the marketing and communications industry.