AGROTAIN Excited About Agriculture

Cindy Zimmerman

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 …

Audio, NAFB

Drive Green Utility Tractor Show Blog

Chuck Zimmerman

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 …

Agribusiness, Audio, John Deere, Tractor

Social Networking in Minnesota

Chuck Zimmerman

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 …

Audio, NAMA

Lindsay Hill Elected NAFB VP

Cindy Zimmerman

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 …

Audio, NAFB

Honoring Jim Evans

Chuck Zimmerman

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 …

Audio, Education, NAFB, University

NAFB Convention Opening Panel

Chuck Zimmerman

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 …

Audio, NAFB