Here’s some more information courtesy of Dan Danford, AdFarm, from the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation conference. These are some pictures from Friday’s farm tour at the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation Conference. Our first stop was Fanny Bay Oysters. They grow, process, market and distribute their own farmed shellfish. It was very interesting to learn how they actually seed the bay …
Driving Green Down South
This week I’ll be driving Green while Cindy will be in St. Louis with the executives attending the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, AgExecutive Forum. I’m sure you’ll be seeing more from her about that. Meanwhile I’ll be in Sarasota learning about the latest that John Deere has to offer in the way of small tractors, compact tractors, utility vehicles and …
Dairy and NFL Helping Kids Get Fit
I’m still in World Dairy Expo mode and thought you might be interested in this program. Grant Kohler is a dairy farmer from Utah where he milks 300 cows with a family operation. He was attending World Dairy Expo to talk about the Childhood Nutrition Fitness Initiative that’s a joint project of the National Dairy Council and the National Football …
Dairy Expo Talk
This week’s ZimmCast is being sponsored by DTN and The Progressive Farmer. “DTN and The Progressive Farmer deliver the right content to the right audience across multiple media platforms—it all adds up to you moving the needle with producers now.” Last week’s World Dairy Expo provided another opportunity to see a lot of my friends in the agricultural marketing world. …
Zimfo Bytes
National 4-H Council has announced a repeat partnership with Southern States Cooperative retail stores to run the “4-H Paper Clover” campaign, an exciting consumer-driven fundraising promotion where consumers purchase a paper clover at the register for $1 from Sunday, Oct. 5 to Sunday, Oct. 19. A list of participating locations can be found here. Fifty cents from each $1 donation …
AdFarm at CFCW
Thanks to Dan Danford, AdFarm, I’ve got more pictures from the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation conference. I think this photo is the AdFarm folks who attended the CFCW Conference. Last night CFWF 2008 wrapped up with closing ceremonies and their annual awards banquet. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences between the CFWF Conference and Ag Media …
Soybean Sky
I’m trying out a new Casio Exilim EX-Z100 camera and used it while biking on the Katy Trail today. I’m still trying to decide if I want to replace my Exilim EX-S770 which I’m planning to give to my parents when I present them with a new Gateway PC we bought them. The Z100 records video in a more YouTube …
Get Dairy Impact Photos
If you’re a media person needing some dairy information, especially photos, then Dairy Impact is where you need to go. This is a website of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. Here’s WMMB, Vice President, Producer Communications & Programs, Matt Joyce, showing it off to World Dairy Expo Dairy Woman of the Year, Marion Barlass at this year’s Expo. Matt says …
Successful Farming/John Deere Win min
Successful Farming magazine and John Deere have received some recognition for their integration of web based communications content from the min magazine Integrated Marketing Awards. Successful Farming magazine and John Deere have been awarded the min Integrated Marketing Awards First Place honor in Web/Online Bundling for their partner program, CropTechTour. min’s Integrated Marketing Awards salute the campaigns, ongoing programs and …
AgJobNetwork Wants to be Disruptive
It looks like the AgJobNetwork, started by Aggie-Lance founder, Mark Jewell, is off and running. Yes, there are companies still trying to figure out this “new media” thing. Rooted in New Media – the AgJobNetwork has grown at an astounding rate from no registered users to more than 1,500 in North America in less than 30 days. And, word’s spreading …