Michael Peterson’s Inspiring Performance

Chuck Zimmerman

Michael PetersonI know it has been a while since I’ve done a Michael Peterson post. Have you been going through MP withdrawal?

New Holland sponsored Michael Peterson to do a performance today at lunch which was both inspiring and entertaining. I’ve been asked several times already if I recorded it and would be posting it. Yes and yes.

Michael played some of his old songs and some new ones. He urged everyone to visit his new website, “I Remember America.”

You can listen to his complete performance here: ams-07-peterson.mp3

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ARC Scholarship Winners

Chuck Zimmerman

Bob Giblin and Melissa LeanderThe Agricultural Relations Council announced the winners of their 2007 ARC of Excellence Scholarship Program today and two of the recipients were in attendance to receive them.

First of all we have Melissa Leander, Kansas State, pictured here with ARC president Bob Giblin.

They’ll receive $500 each from the organization.

Bob Giblin and Melissa LeanderThe next recipient is Katie Allen, University of Missouri.

She was here with her Dad but I couldn’t talk him into getting into the picture.

Not attending today is Jill Goetz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

In addition to handing out the scholarships we got an update on the Golden ARC Awards which will be returning to life this fall. More information on them will be forthcoming.

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Horses Work in Kentucky According to KEEP

Chuck Zimmerman

Jim NavolioThe Agricultural Relations Council held their breakfast this morning to bestow some scholarship awards.

Before that though we heard a presentation on the Kentucky horse industry from Jim Navolio. Jim was head of the Kentucky Equine Education Project which was started to raise awareness of how important this industry is to the state. He says that it’s amazing how little legislative support the industry gets in light of how much it contributes, especially through taxes.

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Agragate Those Carbon Credits

Chuck Zimmerman

ZimmCast-130 - Agragating Carbon CreditsThis week I’m attending the Agricultural Media Summit. As if you didn’t know that by now. So this week’s program is a live demo for my “Podcasting For Publishers” session.

What better program and interview than with your sponsor? The program is my interview this morning with Agragate Climate Credits Corporation CEO Dave Krog. We’ll learn all about carbon credits and how their new company is now focusing on bringing this service to farmers nationally. In case you don’t know about carbon Dave Krogcredits you need to listen to this program. It’s a great potential extra income source for farmers and as our speaker said yesterday, we’re going to see more and more programs like this.

You can download and listen to the ZimmCast here: Listen To ZimmCastZimmCast 130 (10 min MP3)

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zimmcast130-7-31-07.mp3

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InfoExpo Kicks Off

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Mosaic BoothInfoExpo officially kicked off with a reception this afternoon. There is a lot to see and talk about in this year’s show because it’s bigger and better than ever.

I made sure I stopped by the Mosaic booth to enter for an iPod Nano. In fact, I’m so pumped to see these as giveaways. If you won one today I’m hoping you’ll be in my session tomorrow “Podcasting For Publishers.” I’ll show you how to use it and where you can get some great content for it and how to create your own. Make sure you stop by and see Dan and Bruce.

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The Ralph Grossi Policy Update

Chuck Zimmerman

Ralph GrossiRalph Grossi, President, American Farmland Trust, was our luncheon speaker today. He gave us a great overview of Washington, DC policy including the farm bill situation.

To save me time summarizing his comments I’m going to just let you listen for yourself. Yes, the golden ZimmComm microphone was in action. I’ll try to get back here and post more about what he said later. It’s getting time for the opening of the InfoExpo and that’s where I need to be next.

Listen to Ralph Grossi’s remarks here: ams-07-grossi.mp3

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Doing The YMCA

Chuck Zimmerman

Thanks to Brandon Souza, Cal Poly – Brock Center, San Luis Obispo, CA for providing me with another video clip from our opening session.

Brandon made sure we never forget the YMCA portion of the evening.

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AMS Idol Contestants

Chuck Zimmerman

AMS ContestantsGetting back to the AMS Idol contest, here’s all the contestants.

Mr. Magic, Barry Nelson, John Deere, contestant and sponsor, is taking his bow as we showed our appreciation for their efforts last night.

You can find more photos in the album.

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Heads of the Industry

Chuck Zimmerman

Animal HeadsThis is why I like taking the pictures as opposed to being in them. Poking my head through an animal cutout would not be the way I want to be remembered but hey, I take the pics when they ask.

I don’t know if you can figure out who they are but these are leaders in the industry.

It’s just an example of what a fun loving group agricultural journalists can be.

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AMS Idol Winner Angie Greving

Chuck Zimmerman

Angie GrevingThe winner of the first AMS Idol contest is Angie Greving, Charleston-Orwig.

Angie just absolutely wowed the crowd with a Martina McBride number (Independence Song).

In fact, she was called back up afterward to sing some more. I’m not sure what the winner received. Hopefully a recording contract somewhere. Hey, I’ve got a microphone and a lot of hard drive space. It could be a start.

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