Here’s our first report from the IFMA 17 Congress. Good job newsroom! From farmers markets to super markets, IFMA 17 delegates had the opportunity to spend Sunday, July 19 touring the Meijer’s Super Store. Delegates arrived at the Bone Student Center Sunday to register for this week’s events. A shuttle, provided by Peoria Charter Coach, took them from the ISU …
MGEX is Tweeting
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) is the latest ag-related biz to go Twitter. According to a news release: With the creation of the MGEX site, anyone subscribing to view information on MGEX can receive up to date information in a timely manner. The page can be accessed at: http://twitter.com/MGEX1. MGEX will use Twitter to distribute press releases and share Exchange …
Looking Ahead To IFMA 17
The International Farm Management Association will be holding it’s annual convention in Illinois this coming week and we’ve made a unique arrangement with the group to bring you news and information from the event. Thanks to the support of Syngenta, the IFMA 17 Newsroom will be staffed with student reporters who will be filing reports to us here at AgWired …
No Request For Soybean Checkoff Referendum
It looks like there was very little interest on the part of soybean growers to request a new referendum according to the results of the latest opportunity as announced by USDA. USDA received only 759 request for referendum forms at county Farm Service Agency Offices, which reflects approximately one tenth of one percent of all eligible U.S. soybean farmers. Had …
NCBA on HSUS Agenda
It’s no longer a secret that the Humane Society of the United States is dedicated to their main agenda of abolishing food animal agriculture in this country. It’s also no secret that HSUS has spending power and an active lobbying core that has taken part in 25 ballot initiatives, including the most notable, Proposition 2. For years, there have been …
AdFarm/AGROTAIN Mount Ranier Relay Team
The folks at AdFarm are rooting for their team which is competing today in the Mount Rainier to Pacific Relay. Hello AdFarmers! Runners and non-runners alike, tune your monitors to Twitter updates courtesy of our own Dan Danford at http://twitter.com/DanDan4D . He is one of the 11 member AGROTAIN client/agency team to run the Mount Rainier to Pacific Relay – …
5 Years After Global PR Blog Week
It was in January of 2005 that I mentioned Global PR Week 1.0 here on AgWired. The conference was over at that point of course but it was one of those learning tools for me that let me see the power and effectiveness of new media. There was a Global PR Week 2.0 later that year but we haven’t had …
Zimfo Bytes
GreenStone Farm Credit Services has broken ground on a new corporate headquarters in East Lansing, Mich. Farmers, ranchers and rural business owners have until July 31, 2009 to apply for the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants. Syngenta Seed Care announced that the first seed treatment insecticide for small-seeded vegetables has been approved by the EPA for use …
Active, Online Beef Ambassadors
Today I met with the National Beef Ambassador Team to conduct a workshop on social networking: using blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube to help share the beef cattle production story. The ambassadors have a brand new blog to share information about the beef industry with consumers. Show your support and stop by to leave a comment. These are the …
Cattle Industry Summer Conference Kicks Off
It’s Cattle Industry Summer Conference week in Denver and Amanda Nolz is on the ground doing some Beef Board blogging for us. Cindy just arrived at the airport from the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and yours truly is getting better from pneumonia or he’d be in Mexico with the United Soybean Board. Busy week. Here’s Amanda’s first interview from the …