Milk from Lifeway Foods is now garaunteed to be 100 percent, certified hormone free. The makers of the probiotic dairy beverage called kefir has announced they are now using milk that comes from cows that are not treated with hormones. This 100% certified hormone free milk comes with a Farmers Pledge, which Lifeway will market on the labels of its …
Food Network Brings Wine and Food to New York
The Food Network is hosting its first-ever New York City Wine & Food Festival. The festival, which is being presented by Food & Wine and Travel+Leisure magazines, is the sister even to the popular Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Set primarily in one of Manhattan’s most fashionable neighborhoods, the Meatpacking District, the festival will take place this …
Jimmie Van Zant Riding a Blue Boomer
One of the celebrities competing in the Michael Peterson/New Holland Celebrity Tractor race was Jimmie Van Zant, pictured on the left with Michael. Jimmie is a cousin to Johnny, Ronnie and Donnie Van Zant, deceased members of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. He’s been making quite a career on his own. He thinks the tractor race is an excellent opportunity for …
Corn Farmers Concerned about Google/Yahoo Advertising
Cindy found an interesting story on Cnet, titled, “Corn farmers take anti-Google fight to Washington.” It’s about a letter from the American Corn Growers and some other ag groups to Congress, urging them to look into a proposed advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. It’s kind of a complicated story to explain easily so I encourage you to read the …
Sacia and Duwe Join Filament Marketing
Filament Marketing has added a couple of new people to their staff. Filament Marketing, LLC has announced the hiring of Buffy Sacia as an associate marketing executive. In this role, she will coordinate marketing projects and conduct public relation activities in order to carry out strategic marketing plans for many of the company’s clients. Sacia has worked as an intern …
Social Media Explained
Although many of you are “getting it” when it comes to this whole new social media thing, which includes new media, there are so many who don’t. Well, maybe this video will help you understand. Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. Thanks to Sundog for bringing it to our collective attention.
Zimfo Bytes
Truffle Media Networks is offering four podcast that feature the “Leveraging Interactive Marketing” workshop from this year’s NAMA convention. Explore new technologies; find out the emerging trends in search, content, applications and community; discover how farmers use online media; and learn what challenges impact your organization’s ability to successfully leverage the power of interactive marketing. Hereford breeders from across the …
Ag Leader Technology Precision Scholarships
Precision agriculture training at Iowa State University just got a boost. Today, Ag Leader Technology announced their commitment to support students interested in precision agriculture by establishing the Ag Leader Technology Precision Agriculture Scholarship within the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State University. Five Ag Leader scholarships will be awarded annually starting in the 2008/2009 school …
Food Before Fuel?
As if we didn’t have enough confusion about the whole food and fuel issue, now we’ve got a new “coalition” with an agenda and a website. There’s a built in blog with no posts too. I really recommend posting on your blog if you want anyone to visit it and if you want any credibility. This one is called Food …
Are You Sending AgWired Your News?
I thought I’ve been pretty clear about the fact that you can send me your company/organizational news and announcements for possible posting here on AgWired but I’m finding that some companies are not doing so or forget to include us at times. So I guess all I can do is remind you again. If you want your customers to know …