Gator NAMA showed today that it’s not just the football and basketball teams that can win multiple national championships. Today the University of Florida student NAMA chapter won the marketing competition for the second year in a row! How ’bout them Gators? We’ll have more to post about this inspiring victory later including video. Way to go team. And congratulations …
NAMA Student Marketing Finals
Hello from the Imperial Room at the Marquis Marriott in Atlanta. We’re live in the student finals room and ready to see the competition. I hope you enjoy it. Post Update: We had approximately 170 people watch the live stream from the competition today. I think we’ll do it again next year! We’ll plan ahead this time and have a …
NAMA Honors Leaders
Highlights of this morning’s general session at NAMA 2009 included the presentation of the annual Agribusiness Leader and Marketer of the Year awards. CHS Energy Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Leon Westbrock was named the 2009 NAMA Agribusiness Leader of the Year. Leon is responsible for refineries, pipelines, refined fuels sales, marketing and distribution, lubricants and propane. He …
AG Community Vindicated with CBO Report
“This report is welcome to the farmers and those I represent,” said Rick Tolman, CEO of the National Corn Growers Association. “This proves that there are no food and fuel issues, but merely the work of a campaign designed to shift blame on farmers and take our eyes off the ball.” Tolman joined several others in the agriculture and ethanol …
NAMA’s Best
Thanks to Denny Eilers for providing me with photos of our Best of NAMA award winners for each category. First up is Best of Show, Advertising (Left to Right) Tom Bigelow, Bigelow Advertising Rick Radermacher, Bigelow Advertising Chris Lund, AGCO Application Equipment The next ones are Best of Show, Public Relations (Left to Right) Paul Durham, Martin/Williams Kim Dawson, Syngenta …
Student NAMA Marketing Competition Finalists
During our Connection Point session tonight the finalists for the NAMA Student Marketing Competition were announced and here they are. Florida Nebraska Purdue Ohio State Wisconsin-Madison North Dakota State They’ll be battling for the championship and we’ll have the winners announced right here. NAMA Photo Album AgWired coverage of the Agri-Marketing Conference is sponsored by: and .
Best of NAMA Awards
On of our Best of NAMA Award emcees this evening was Sally Behringer, Nicholson Kovac, Inc. You can ask her to explain the makeup and costume. There are more photos in the online album. She and Kyle Bauer, KFRM, announced the winners of our annual awards. Thanks to AgriMarketing Magazine you can learn more online. Winning Best of Show were: …
NAMA Pre-Conference Session Helps Chart Course
The pre-conference workshop for NAMA 2009 on Wednesday was tailor-made for today’s challenging economic climate. Kevin Ochsner of Adayana Agri Business Group was captain of the ship for “Charting Your Course in Uncharted Waters – Strategic Decision Making in Uncertain Times,” which focused on gaining insight into the key principals of scenario-planning. “Now, more than ever, we have to both …
Twitter 101
Lately, I have been all about social networking. I started my Twitter account in December just to see what it’s all about, and so far, it has been an effective way to communicate with people and market my causes. While I have usually found that college kids are ahead of the curve on most social technology advances, I give the …
Facebook Tools for Guerilla Marketers
I ran across a booklet titled, Facebook Bible, and I thought I would share a few of the finer points from this helpful tool. For college students, utilizing Facebook to keep in touch is as easy as breathing. The tools we use on this social networking service come naturally to us, and there are definitely very cool and very uncool …