One of our distinguished guests at today’s Sunbelt Ag Expo Southeast Farmer of the Year luncheon was Mark E. Keenum, USDA Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service. If you’re interested in hearing about the economics of what’s going on in agriculture then you may want to listen to him. His full comments are only about 12 minutes. However, I’m …
Everything Propane at Sunbelt Ag Expo
The Georgia Propane Gas Association has a very large building here at Sunbelt Ag Expo to display all the latest propane powered appliances and equipment. The gas fireplaces are very popular and they’ve even set up multiple rooms to provide ideas for how you can use them in your farm house. I went on a tour of their building today …
Brian Kirksey is Southeast Farmer of the Year
The big news of the day here at Sunbelt Ag Expo is the announcement of the Southeast Farmer of the Year. After a number of speeches and suspense it was announced that Brian Kirksey, Arkansas, was chosen as this year’s winner. He receives a check for $14,000 and is seen here on stage with his wife, Nan. Brian got to …
World Food Prize Coverage
I am preparing to head up to Des Moines today to cover the 2008 World Food Prize festivities and Borlaug Dialogue. I have never been to this event, but I am looking forward to it. The 2008 World Food Prize laureates are Bob Dole and George McGovern, who are being honored for their work in establishing the McGovern-Dole international school-feeding …
Sunbelt Ag Expo
Hello from Sunbelt Ag Expo and the media center. I’m on location at least today and tomorrow. It’s early and I’m just getting my bearings. We’ve got a Toyota-sponsored media breakfast in a few minutes and lunch today will include the announcing of the Southeast Farmer of the Year award. It’s been a few years since I’ve been to this …
Alpharma Student Video Contest
Alpharma is conducting a student video contest to help educate consumers about food and farming, especially animal agriculture. So, get out your FLIP’s, phones or whatever you shoot video with and get entered! In an innovative step toward consumer education, agriculture students from the East Coast to California are invited to participate in a three-phase contest, the first of which …
Advice On Reaching The Ruralpolitans
In this week’s ZimmCast you’ll hear the viewpoints of two industry leading experts on the rural lifestyle market. It seems like this is all anyone wants to talk about in the agrimarketing world these days. Keep your eye on AgWired if you’d like to learn more about it. The Marketing Director for John Deere Commercial and Consumer Equipment is Dennis …
Zimfo Bytes
Tarter has joined Tractor Supply to co-sponsor the Diversified Livestock Production Proficiency Award Program for the 2008 National FFA Convention to be held in Indianapolis, Ind., from Oct. 22-25. The Diversified Livestock Production Proficiency Award recognizes FFA members’ application of best management practices to efficiently produce and market a combination of two or more livestock-related species such as beef, dairy, …
Year of the Utility Tractor
We’ve heard from John Deere that this is the “Year of the Utility Tractor.” That means they’re showing their commitment to the rural lifestyle market. In this week’s ZimmCast I’ll have some very interesting interviews about how John Deere is targeting this market. Before I left the Drive Green media event I spoke with Barry Nelson, Public Relations Manager. He …
Drive Green Utility Tractor Road Show
Shortly after the first of the year this mammoth John Deere truck will hit the road visiting select dealers from Texas to Georgia with the Drive Green Utility Tractor Road Show. I’ll be joining the tour and The dealers we’ll be visiting will be offering the new utility tractors to their customers and customers will have a chance to ride …