Here’s the latest holiday message from my friend Goran who I’ve met through my involvement in IFAJ. Dear friends and colleagues all around the world, I wish you marry Christmas, happy and successive 2008 year. I hope that the ending year was good enough, but less then the next year. All the best, Goran Djakovic, Vice – president of AGROPRESS …
New Website For Australian Council of Ag Journalists
The Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists has a new website. The site at www.acaj.org.au not only brings together information about Australia’s five state-based rural media clubs but also provides a single access point for international colleagues. Plans are already in hand to expand the facility with a register for freelance Australian writers, photographers and consultants who specialise in covering agricultural …
Eubank Joins HAT
Hoosier Ag Today has increased their staff with the addition of Andy Eubank. Maybe we’ll see some agriblogging from the HAT team now. Hoosier Ag Today is proud to announce the appointment of Andy Eubank as Vice President of Operations. Eubank will join HAT President Gary Truitt in hosting and producing agricultural programs that are aired on 30 radio stations …
Funky Tricia Wins Excellence Award
Here’s Tricia Braid-Terry and former Secretary of Agriculture John Block at last week’s NAFB Convention. We didn’t know it at the time but we were in the presence of greatness. Tricia Braid-Terry of Funks Grove was recently honored by the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) as the winner of its 2007 Excellence in Broadcasting Award. The award was presented at ISA’s …
The Marantz PMD 620 is Now Available
I gave a heads up to all the farm podcasters out there recently about the Marantz PMD 620. It’s now on the market and my order is in. So you can expect to see this bad boy connected to the golden ZimmComm microphone soon. One of the cool things about this unit is the speaker built into it which is …
Imus Comes Home to RFD-TV
Don Imus and Rural Media Group, Inc. signed a 5-year agreement to simulcast the popular Imus In The Morning program exclusively on RFD-TV (which reaches 30 million homes and has a loyal, growing fan base in all 50 states in just 7 years) and RFD HD. The announcement was made by Patrick Gottsch, Founder & President of Rural Media Group, …
Successful Farming Launches Farm Machinery Show
Farmers and ranchers can tune into a brand new show that’s devoted solely to farm machinery beginning tomorrow. Successful Farming is launching it’s Farm Machinery Show on both RFD-TV and high-definition RFD-HD. Premiering November 1, 2007, The Successful Farming Machinery Show the Successful Farming® Machinery Show will deliver all the best-read favorites from the magazine, and for the first time …
RFD-TV Reaching Those Rural People
The Executive Vice President of RFD-TV is Mike Hansen. He was our luncheon keynote speaker at the Country Living Outlook Conference. With a company/tv network that has a name like RFD you know they’ve got to be reaching rural lifestyle people right? Mike talked to us about the 8 year old network and says that they were reaching these rural …
The Business of California Farming
The Futures Channel has produced a short movie on California agriculture. They’d love your feedback. Thanks to Jenna who’s in charge of their distribution for the alert to it. It’s meant to be an instructional video for classroom use. Do your students know where their food comes from? There are more than 350 different commodities grown in California, including rice, …
Buckeye Video On Demand
The BARN stands for Buckeye Ag Radio Network but Andy and Lindsay are into a lot more than radio these days. Take a look at what they’ve done with their video since I mentioned blip.tv to Andy at World Dairy Expo. Here’s a sample: Buckeye Video On Demand. Very cool and well done y’all.