If you weren’t able to participate in last night’s AgChat session via Twitter then you missed a good one. The topic was going to be bioenergy but that got moved to next week in favor of a focus on how agriculture is portrayed in the mainstream media in light of a recent article in Time Magazine and an opinion piece …
NCGA Talking Land Use
The NCGA Land Use and Carbon Impacts of Corn-Based Ethanol Conference is underway here at the Renaissance hotel by the St. Louis airport. This is our first panel discussion on “Emission Factors and Land Use Change Modeling” which is being moderated by Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association. We’re talking some very involved talks on things like Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Analysis, …
Register for NAMA Trends In Agriculture
Registration is open for this fall’s NAMA Trends In Agriculture program in Kansas City, MO, Nov. 10-11. I’ll be there and also for the NAFB convention which follows. Speaking of NAMA, I’m heading to St. Louis today for a Gateway chapter board meeting. We’ve got some new faces in leadership who are going to be discussing the challenges of planning …
Zimfo Bytes
Andrew (Andy) Stevens, editor of American Small Farm magazine, has been inducted into both the Ohio Ag Hall of Fame and the Farm Science Review Hall of Fame. Consumers rank almonds as the most essential nut and the top nut consumers choose most to eat on an ongoing basis, according to the Almond Board of California’s 2009 Consumer Attitudes, Awareness …
Record Phone Calls On Your iPhone
Hey farm podcasters. You know there are a lot of equipment options to record audio out there and I’ve mentioned that the iPhone is a really good one. Now there’s an app for the iPhone that provides a way to record a call, trim the ends and email it. I just tested the Recorder v.10 app ($.99) and emailed to …
TIME for Yellow Journalism
If you look up the definition of “yellow journalism” you should find a picture of last week’s TIME Magazine cover story – which was renamed “Getting Real about the High Cost of Cheap Food” – after first being headlined “America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix it.” Wikipedia gives several characteristics of yellow journalism that fit this attack on modern …
The Real Purpose of 4-H Livestock Projects
Every summer, my family spends a lot of time working on our show cattle to take to livestock expos around the country. These shows are both educational and fun, and over the years, they have quickly become our family “vacations,” too. I ran across this positive article about the real purpose of 4-H livestock projects written by Extension Educator Randall …
Local PETA Billboard Compares Women To Whales?
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is under fire for putting up a billboard on Atlantic Boulevard, which seems to compare overweight women to whales, reported Morning News Producer Adam Kirk for WOKV.com. But a PETA spokeswoman told our news partner Channel 4, it’s not about making people feel bad. “People are bombarded with ads …
USDA Rural Tour in Missouri
Our Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, is in Missouri today on his Rural Tour. I couldn’t be with him but @ruraltour is keeping us up to date. Here’s some tweets from the morning so far: Great things happening with renewable energy at the Show Me Energy Co-Op. Rural innovation at its best, this is how we revitalze rural areas http://twitpic.com/epmgy …
Zimfo Bytes
The United Soybean Board announced that it will partner with Oranni Consulting and Transition Management Consulting to complete an external market analysis identifying effective models for international marketing programs. The Obama Administration’s proposal to mandate certain kinds of health care coverage could increase the cost of health insurance for farmers and ranchers and other self-employed individuals in Nebraska and the …