The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is going to be holding a series of workshops (pdf) on social media in August. It’s part of their Agritourism efforts which will “Take your marketing skills to a new level.” If you think a . . . “Twitter” is what the birdies do . . . “Blog” is a swampy spot near the barn …
A Cow’s Life
Without a doubt, Twitter is all the rage these days, and even farmers and ranchers are tweeting their daily lives from their tractors. This is a great way to promote food production to consumers, as it gives a unique insight into the lives of the people that are dedicated to growing a safe, wholesome product for consumption. While there are …
Taiwanese Cowboy Round-up!
The beef checkoff funded a “2009 Hottest Little U.S. Cowboy Competition” that promoted U.S. beef and taught some young Taiwanese “cowboys” and “cowgirls” about the importance of beef in a balanced diet. The contest was a big hit with the little ones, who really threw themselves into their cowboy roles. Twenty contest winners and more than 120 family members took …
Zimfo Bytes
DuPont and Bayer CropScience have entered into a series of long-term business agreements related to key plant biotechnology traits and enabling technologies that will help increase agricultural productivity around the world. Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide research and commercial license agreement for Chromatin’s proprietary gene stacking technology in sugar cane. Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. …
Celebrating With Leah Guffey Banister
You can now call her Leah Banister. That’s Leah on the right with Cindy in the middle and Tricia Braid-Terry. While you were all smoking and grilling some good meat on the grill and going to the local fireworks, @farmerspice got hitched to First Sergeant Tom Banister in Williamsville, IL. Cindy and I were there to help take photos and …
Happy Independence Day
ZimmComm New Media would like to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July celebration. I thought it would be a good opportunity to borrow some prose from Rick Tolman, NCGA, about energy independence and the role ethanol is playing. Here are some excerpts from his most recent Our View: Another Fourth of July is upon us and as we prepare …
Tricia Braid-Terry New Dir. of Comm. for IL Corn Growers
According to AgNews on Twitter (yes I’m reporting Twitter news), Tricia Braid-Terry is the new Director of Communications for Illinois Corn Growers. She’s much better looking than Mark Lambert her predecessor who is now with NCGA. I’ll bet Mark would like to be in this picture though. This is from when Tricia was in Guatemala the U. S. Grains Council. …
CNN Live With Steve Tucker
I am so glad Steve Tucker tweeted that he was about to go live on CNN via Skype! I got on it and got a screenshot for you. The Twittering Farmer just did a great job letting people have a little bit of insight into who produces their food. Steve told ’em like it is. Up to 15 hours in …
CNN.com and The Twittering Farmer
CNN.com has a nice story by John D. Sutter that covers how farmers are communicating today with their smartphones and Twitter. He spoke with my main man Steve Tucker, Nebraska farmer and Any Kleinschmidt, Ohio State University Extension Agriculture Educator and Assistant Professor and yours truly and also mentions AgChat. Here’s an excerpt: As he rolls across the wheat fields …