AgChat Tweetup at Farm Progress Show

Chuck Zimmerman

AgChat Tweetup at Farm Progress ShowHey AgChat fans. We had a tweetup today in the Country Financial tent this afternoon and many of us who have only communicated via Twitter got to meet face to face for the first time. Here’s most of our group.

What is AgChat? Learn more by visiting AgChat or looking back through post via Twitter Search.

AgChat was started by Michele Payn-Knoper, Cause Matters. I finally got to meet her and we discussed why she started the Twitter conversation about agriculture and what she believes it is accomplishing.

You can listen to my interview with Michele below:

AgChat at Farm Progress ShowThis evening AgChat was moderated live from our hotel, Decatur Conference Center, and a number of AgChatters showed up in a room where we had good internet access.

The topic was biofuels. Responses to questions show there is still a lot of misunderstanding about the production of fuels like ethanol and biodiesel and the truth about tax credits vs. subsidies and more.

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