It looks like Mike Parry has Rural Life Radio.com up and running. On it you can watch video interviews from the SHOT show. Hmm. Video clips on the web/radio broadcasting? Goes together, eh? I assume this is a project of the NAFB. Feel free to add to comments. “Welcome to RuralLifeRadio.com. This website is dedicated to those living the rural …
God Bless Farm Gals
It is often overlooked that the female in a farming operation plays a crucial role in the success of that business. This ranch partner wears many hats including: hired hand, meals-on-wheels service, chauffer, maid, errands-runner, fix-it gal and chore help. She can be found in the kitchen, in the feedyard, on a tractor or in a repair shop. She keeps …
Top Producer Top 25
Top Producer magazine has published it’s annual Top 25 list of people, issues and trends. “A Top Producer Staff Report…It’s difficult to predict who or what will shake out as agriculture’s biggest influences and influencers in the coming years, but we identify some that will surely have an impact on your business.” Yours truly is mentioned in the item titled, …
Stoller’s Cybercoffeeshop
I guess that StollerUSA has started blogging with Cybercoffeeshop. They just started posting from their US Ag Associates Conference that is taking place in Houston, TX. Join the insightful online chat between farmers, researchers, and crop consultants. Find out what others are doing to cope with the changes in today’s farming environment. It looks like they’re asking questions in an …
Lessing-Flynn Adds Two To Team
Lessing-Flynn has some company news. Lessing-Flynn, a marketing communications firm based in Des Moines, Iowa, has named Jessica Held Executive Vice President of Client Services. Held was previously the Marketing Communications Manager at Vermeer Corporation in Pella, Iowa. A graduate from Central College, she also founded Studio 104, a design and advertising firm located in Pella. Lessing-Flynn, a marketing communications …
WATT Virtual Animal Health Forum
Here’s a sign of the viability of online communications in agriculture. I think we’re going to see more of this at time goes on and travel budgets get tighter. WATT, a global custom marketing solutions company, announces the launch of the agribusiness industry’s first-ever virtual tradeshow: WATT Online Animal Nutrition & Health Forum, to be held on 29 April, 2009 …
Zimfo Bytes
IRON Solutions add to their joint venture rollout with the IRON Search tool launch on all Farm Progress state and regional publications’ Web sites. Ag Leader Technology, Inc., announced the release of new features for their popular SeedCommand planter control system: Additional Sections of Clutch Control, Expanded Planter Monitoring and Hydraulic Drive Control. AgriLabs introduces First Arrival with Encrypt, a …
Rural Fiber Fund
Thanks to Twitterer Rural_Broadband (who is?) for pointing me to some posts by Geoff Daily at AppRising.com who is supporting rural fiber as the method to bring high speed internet access to rural America. He writes: Fiber is our future. It’s the only broadband that’s considered true 21st century infrastructure, and only full fiber networks equal world-class broadband. Whatever broadband …
Argentina Trip Broadens Ag Horizons
This past June, I traveled with the SDSU Spanish Department to Buenos Aires, Argentina. For an entire month, we attended classes, lived with host families, explored the big city, traveled to vineyards, the Andes Mountains, the rainforest and Iguazu Falls, and learned a lot of Spanish along the way. The month was truly an experience of a lifetime, and I …
NAMA Convention In Kansas City Next Four Years
I smiled big when I saw that NAMA will be holding it’s convention in KC, MO the next 4 years. Makes sense to me, how about you? It does seem like we get better participation when it’s held in a central location that is easy for members to get to. After careful review, the NAMA Executive Committee has announced that …