Another new exhibitor at NAFB Trade Talk this year was AGROTAIN International. You might remember us covering the grand opening of their new stabilized nitrogen production facility and urea storage center in St. Louis a couple of months ago. I talked with president Mike Stegmann at NAFB about how the new facility is doing and just what they have to …
NAMA Trends in Agriculture Opening Session Available
You can listen to Franck Schuurmans, NAMA opening session speaker at their Trends in Agriculture conference, thanks to Truffle Media Networks. You can use this link to listen. He was my first interview at the event. More audio recordings from the event are expected to be ready by Dec. 1.
Driving Green This Holiday Season
Happy Thanksgiving week to all of you. I know you’re hard at it so you can enjoy your holiday weekend. Cindy and I are doing the same. In this week’s program I had to brag a little about our latest agriblogging project with John Deere. I think Robert, our web guy, has outdone himself with DriveGreenTractors.com. It is cool and …
Drive Green Utility Tractor Show Blog
It may be late on Friday but I did mention earlier this week that we’d have a big announcement today. It’s the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show blog, which is now official and public (final tweaks being made as speak). Yes, it’s a ZimmComm project, working closely with the folks at BCS Communications and the public relations staff at John …
Social Networking in Minnesota
Well we had a very successful North Central Chapter NAMA meeting here in Minneapolis and I’m now connected with more of my NAMA peeps. That’s what I like about NAMA the most – connecting with other people. Pictured here is chapter president, Josh Krenz, Land O’Lakes, getting us started. I interviewed Josh before we got started. I am very impressed …
Secretary Schafer at Cellulosic Summit
This may have been the last time I will have the chance to interview the current Secretary of Agriculture – I think this is about the 10th secretary I have been able to report on during my career in ag communications! Anyway – Secretary Schafer was here at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit in south Florida Wednesday and had a small …
Lindsay Hill Elected NAFB VP
We are very pleased to report that our good friend Lindsay Hill of AdVance, ABN and Buckeye Ag Radio Network has been elected as vice president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. She is pictured here with her very proud husband and partner Andy Vance shortly after the election took place. Lindsay is a 10-year veteran of agricultural media …
NAFB Trade Talk Hectic As Usual
I think we need a couple days to get all of the Trade Talking done that we’d like to do! Cindy and I did a lot of interviews today and we’ll be using them in the coming weeks. I got to meet with one of my musical heroes this morning during the NAFB Trade Talk session. He was hanging out …
Honoring Jim Evans
This evening we honored a real friend and mentor of many of us in agricultural communications, Jim Evans. He’s seen here with the Cindy’s (l-r Cindy Zimmerman, Cyndi Young, Jim, Cindy Cunningham). A reception was held in Jim’s honor and to bring to our awareness a new “Campaign for the James F. Evans Endowed Chair in Agricultural Communications” at the …
NAFB Convention Opening Panel
With the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference over I’ve made the permanent move to the Westin for the NAFB meeting. After a joint meeting with NAMA, the first session for NAFB was titled, “Staking Value, Lifting Tides.” Mike Adams, AgriTalk presided over the session which featured some of our good friends. You can see Bill Farmakis, J. L. Farmakis, Pat …