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Southeast AgNet is owned by the husband and wife team of Gary Cooper and Robin Loftin. Learn more about the Company and how it got started by viewing this ‘history’ of the company (pdf).
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March 9, 2010 SOUTHEAST AGNET MEDIA ADDS NEW TEAM MEMBERS
Ocala, FL — Southeast AgNet, a multi-media enterprise dedicated to “deep southeast” agriculture, is pleased to announce the addition of two new positions to assist the company’s continued growth in digital and print arenas. Marc Stockwell and Tacy Callies joined the Southeast AgNet team March 1.
Marc Stockwell comes on board as a Senior Account Executive, bringing 20 years of advertising sales and management experience to the position. Stockwell was most recently employed with Meister Media Worldwide, where he sold advertising to citrus, vegetable, and ornamental horticulture industries. At Southeast AgNet, he will be involved in marketing multiple media in-region and nationally, including Web and print advertising for Citrus Industry and Florida Pest Pro magazines and the company’s primary agriculture news website, www.SoutheastAgNet.com.
Tacy Callies, as Southeast AgNet’s Communications Strategist, will focus on multi-media communications strategies, planning and content development; public relations; and editing and writing for Citrus Industry and Florida Pest Pro. Callies has worked in Florida agriculture media for the past nine years as an editor for Florida Grower and Ornamental Outlook magazines.
With the addition of Stockwell and Callies, Southeast AgNet’s team now includes 17 members who publish two monthly magazines, broadcast daily radio shows on 66 stations throughout Florida, Georgia and Alabama, deliver daily Web news at www.SoutheastAgNet.com, and manage the “world’s premier Citrus Expo” annual grower seminar/trade show program. Other team members are:
• Gary Cooper, Founder/President/Broadcaster
• Robin Loftin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
• Randall Weiseman, Director of Radio Programming
• Julie McPeake, Ag News Director
• Daniel Lee, Radio Production/Program Distribution/Weather Anchor
• Ernie Neff, Magazines Editor/Broadcaster
• Marc Hook, Graphics Designer
• Deborah Whitley, Assistant Business Manager
• Betty Sanders, Account Executive
• Angie Deines, Executive Assistant
• Nicholle Saylor, Office Assistant
• Everett Griner, Agri View Commentary
• Tyron Spearman, Peanut News Specialist/Sales Liaison
• Tom Duff, Weather Co-Anchor
• Carlos Torres, Computer Systems Analyst and Consultant
For more information E-mail us at office@southeastagnet.com
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SOUTHEAST AGNET BUYS BOOK BUSINESS
By Tacy Callies
Southeast AgNet Publications Inc., parent company of Citrus Industry and Florida Pest Pro magazines, has acquired Florida Science Source Inc., a citrus book publishing and reseller operation. It bought the business from founder Will Wardowski and his wife Christie.
Wardowski is well known in citrus circles all over the world as a post-harvest expert. He was the first editor of Fresh Citrus Fruits 1st edition, published in New York in 1986. “Florida citrus people had a difficult time obtaining it, so I got some for them,” recalls Wardowski. “A friend also wanted a citrus juice book which I located for him, and then we had a two-book business.”
Known to citrus packers as “The Green Bible,” Fresh Citrus Fruits 1st and 2nd editions include more than 40 authors from around the world.
After working 31 years in Florida’s citrus industry, Wardowski retired as the statewide fresh fruit Extension specialist in July 2000 from the University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center. “My association with citrus people throughout Florida was very rewarding,” Wardowski says. “I enjoyed helping them to solve problems and keep their fruit healthy from harvest through marketing.”
In retirement, the Wardowskis are spending more time in North Carolina, and finding it difficult to carry an adequate supply of books with them. “My goal was to find someone who knows citrus and citrus people, and who also appreciates publishing and education,” says Wardowski. “I am pleased that we found those people in Gary Cooper and Robin Loftin.”
Cooper, president of Southeast AgNet Publications, says, “The opportunity presented itself and we found it to be a very good fit for our company, considering our audience-reach capabilities to people involved in the citrus universe globally. It will allow us to provide another depth of service, both to the citrus audience as well as to authors seeking a place to publish books targeting the citrus and specialty crops industries.”
Florida Science Source will retain its name and operate as a division of Southeast AgNet Publications. Approximately 40 titles are available in the Florida Science Source inventory, including Florida Citrus Diagnostic Guide, Fresh Citrus Fruits 2nd edition, E-Commerce in Agribusiness, and more. Books will be available for sale soon at www.southeastagnet.com. For more information, contact fssource@southeastagnet.com
