Speaking of NAMA invites. You’ll be able to play i Got It! with Farm Progress Companies. Can you tell the NAMA Convention is getting close? i Got It! is a “popular, fast-paced Q&A game punctuated with ag history and facts.” You need to visit them at their booth (200and 202). You have to play to win and they’re having a …
The Colle+McVoy PheNAMAnon
NAMA invites are coming in. This one’s from Colle+McVoy promoting their 6th Annual Agri-Rock Fest called Phenamanon. There’s a game involved along with some animal sounds and some rock and roll of course. I’ve got the t-shirt, tats and ear ring and have put it on the calendar. Want your NAMA event promoted here on AgWired? You know who to …
PR Open Mic For You PR Practitioners and Students
Since a lot of you AgWired fans are involved in public relations I thought you’d want to know about PROpenMic. It’s a social networking site started by Robert French, one of the people who inspired me to move forward in this whole new media world. He used Ning to create the site. Ning? What’s Ning you may ask. Ning is …
Zimfo Bytes
Farms.com has launched the enhanced web 2.0 version of the Web site portal. Among the many new features, the new Farms.com portal enables visitors to fully customize and personalize the Web site. This means they will be able to see — at one glance — all of the information they need and want on one home webpage. It also provides …
Osborn & Barr Re-locating Headquarters
I thought that Osborn & Barr had some pretty nice digs in Clayton, MO but from the sound of it they’re going to get even nicer. Of course there is that downtown traffic to contend with but then it wasn’t great out in the Clayton area either at times. Last week they announced that the agency will be re-locating its …
NAMA Virtual Trade Show
The NAMA Virtual Trade Show is up for your viewing pleasure. ZimmComm will once again be exhibiting and you can find us at booth #219. Just come in the trade show entrance, go straight to the back and we’re on the right. Easy. We’ll be having a drawing for those of you who are attending and also for those of …
Michigan Supplies International Demand for Kosher Milk
American diary products are finding their way from the Midwest to Middle East. One of the largest milk producers in Michigan is now supplying kosher milk to an Israeli food distributer. This food distributor has ordered 500 metric tons of kosher whole milk powder from Vreba-Hoff. The Michigan dairy has 5,700 milking cows at its two Hudson farms. Under the …
Cotton: The Green Fabric of Our Lives
Cotton Incorporated wants consumers to know that they’re choosing green when they choose cotton. And, as Earth Day approaches, the company wants to highlight its environmentally-conscious practices. Cotton Incorporated has reinforced its commitment to the environment by producing and participating in several special projects that communicate the importance of minimizing harm on the environmental footprint by being natural, sustainable, responsible …
Family Farm is Saving Lungs with Cow Dung
Pennsylvania is honoring a family farm operation that has developed a new “manure digester.” The farm developed the new system in collaboration with NativeEnergy. The project is meant to help residents will breathe easier with cleaner air. High quality carbon offsets provider NativeEnergy is proud to announce the Brubaker Farms’ family dairy farm methane project, a new anaerobic digester/generator system …
Michaels Named Vermeer Forage Segment Director
Officials at Vermeer Corporation have named Joe Michaels as Forage Segment Director effective immediately. Michaels, who previously served as the segments sales manager, is now responsible for overall operations and will report directly to corporate management. Michaels brings twenty-five years of agricultural equipment sales, service, marketing and product development experience. After joining Vermeer as ag product director in 2000, he …