NPD Group Vice President Harry Balzer, a leading expert and spokesperson on the food, beverage and foodservice industries, will be one of the general session speakers at POTATO EXPO 2010. TerraSphere System engineers have developed a solid state lighting system that is currently being used to support plant germination. The company is working to apply their advanced system to support …
ZimmComm Will Be Very Dairy
We’re heading into dairy industry time. First up is the World Dairy Expo which kicks off tomorrow. Cindy will be attending along with daughter Carly. They’ll begin posting tomorrow morning here but primarily on World Dairy Diary. The dairy industry’s spotlight will be trained on Madison, Wisconsin, when the 43rd edition of World Dairy Expo takes place September 29 through …
Celebrate National Eat Together Week with Pork!
Last week, the National Pork Board kicked off National Eat Dinner Together Week, in conjunction with Feeding America—the national organization that supports our nation’s food banks. For every recipe on the pork website that is printed or downloaded—they donated five pounds of pork to the nation’s food banks! The goal of this week was to promote pork nutrition information and …
Lessing-Flynn Gets Reel Social
More and more agencies are ramping up staff understanding and expertise on new media. The latest is Lessing-Flynn. Lessing-Flynn has introduced a new, turnkey service developed specifically to assist businesses in both developing and executing social media marketing strategies. The new service, called Reel Social, was designed to help marketers tap into the marketing potential of emerging new media tools …
Do You Have Six Pixels Of Separation?
Here’s your newest new media reading assignment. It’s Mitch Joel’s “Six Pixels Of Separation.” I got it yesterday and believe it will help those of you who are over concerned about numbers and ROI of new media. Get it and let’s read it together. We no longer live in the world of Six Degrees of Separation. We’re down to Six …
Zimfo Bytes
Arenus announces that STEADFAST CANINE will sponsor the 2009 DockDogs National Championship scheduled for Oct. 16-18 at King’s Island Resort in Mason, Ohio. Invited guests gathered with 300 employees in Minnetonka, Minn., to celebrate the grand opening of the new Syngenta Seeds, Inc., headquarters building for North America. AgVenture Spangler Seed has announced they’ve hired seed sales professional Art Tessmann …
Biosecurity For Birds Photo Contest
Hey bird photographers. Here’s a photo contest you may be interested in from USDA. USDA APHIS’ Biosecurity For Birds campaign is inviting you to enter your best poultry or pet bird photos in the 2009 Biosecurity For Birds calendar photo contest. We are especially interested in photos of all kinds of poultry, gamebirds, wild birds, shorebirds, and pet birds shown …
More Peanut Butter for Hungry Georgians
The Georgia peanut industry donated another 14,112 jars of peanut butter today in celebration of Hunger Action Month in September. This donation was made to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank. “We are very appreciative of all the donations and efforts that have made this donation come to fruition. This donation will supply needed food protein to thousands of households …
Novus Partners with Vitamin Angels
Novus International is helping humans as well as animals with nutrition needs to achieve their corporate mission of helping “feed the world affordable, wholesome food and achieve a higher quality of life.” The St. Louis-based company is partnering with Vitamin Angels on a new humanitarian program that supplies children with zinc in order to relieve severe diarrhea. This partnership coincides …
USDA Facebook Chat
The whole USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative keeps growing with new tools. This time it’s a live chat session via USDA/Facebook. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today launched a new USDA website for the ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food’ initiative to continue the national conversation about developing local and regional food systems and finding ways to …