Congratulations to Angie Skochdopole for her new gig. AdFarm has hired Angie Skochdopole, veteran ag media specialist, as Director, Media. She comes to AdFarm from her previous role as VP Media Services for Quarry Communications, where she worked on BASF US and BASF Canada, and Novartis Animal Health. Skochdopole also brings a wealth of additional agricultural media experience, including …
Field Assignment: Support Large Animal Vets
Here’s a call to help out with the vet shortage via Charleston|Orwig. All you have to do is post a comment on the latest post on Field Assignment. We’ve blogged about the large animal vet shortage before. But now we really want to ramp up the conversation in an impactful way. In fact, we’re so eager to start a dialogue, …
Aerial Precision Ag
When I visited the Indiana Unmanned Aircraft Systems website for a post I did today on Precision Pays I was pleased to see that they’re using WordPress.com! The story though is that they just had a successful test flight. This is a picture of one of their units. Indiana Unmanned Aircraft Systems (IUAS), a Muncie, Indiana based aerospace company and …
EPIC Joins Growth Energy
The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (long time ZimmComm client) announced today that it is going to be joining Growth Energy. Actually the board is recommending the transition to its membership but I think it’s safe to say that the plan will be approved. Here’s an excerpt from a statement by EPIC Executive Director, Toni Nuernberg. I am proud to …
Podcasting In The News
Thanks to the ever vigilant Evan Slack for the tip to this story in the Rocky Mountain News. It’s worth a full read if you have time. This is especially good for those of you wondering if you should be podcasting. Here’s a few excerpts I liked. “Podcasting isn’t brand-new, but it’s becoming much more important,” said Leonard Sahling, a …
A YouTube Justification
Take a look at this graphic from eMarketer today. Where would you like to have your video? For those of you wondering why it doesn’t list YouTube, remember that Google owns it. The networks’ online destinations are a popular place to view video, but Google’s YouTube is still the 800-pound gorilla in the video viewing space. Google, including YouTube, has …
PearCasts Are Juicier Than Podcasts
While looking at PearPanache.com I noticed the PearCasts. They’re “like a podcast, only juicier.” Short video clips. Wish I could subscribe to them! Anyway, PearPanache.com just announced their December Chef of the Month. From an angular glass wing of Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, Executive Chef Asher Miller of 20.21 Restaurant & Bar by Wolfgang Puck creates Asian-influenced culinary works of …
Zimfo Bytes
Archer Daniels Midland Company and Grupo Cabrera announced an agreement to form a joint venture to produce ethanol from sugarcane. The partnership will bring together ADM’s expertise in ethanol production, logistics and marketing with Cabrera’s extensive knowledge of sugarcane agriculture and production. Vermeer Corporation introduces a new wagon-style cob collection system, the CCX770 Cob Harvester, designed to tow immediately behind …
NAMA Trends in Agriculture Opening Session Available
You can listen to Franck Schuurmans, NAMA opening session speaker at their Trends in Agriculture conference, thanks to Truffle Media Networks. You can use this link to listen. He was my first interview at the event. More audio recordings from the event are expected to be ready by Dec. 1.
Driving Green This Holiday Season
Happy Thanksgiving week to all of you. I know you’re hard at it so you can enjoy your holiday weekend. Cindy and I are doing the same. In this week’s program I had to brag a little about our latest agriblogging project with John Deere. I think Robert, our web guy, has outdone himself with DriveGreenTractors.com. It is cool and …