Heads up farm podcasters and agribloggers. The new media game just ramped up a notch. So you’ve got your iPhone and have mastered tweeting photos right? How about streaming live audio/video from it? Now you can thanks to the new Ustream.tv app. I’ve already tried it and it works great. It uses either your 3G signal or wifi. It also …
Holiday Greetings From U.S. Wheat Associates
U.S. Wheat Associates wishes us all a little bit of peace and prosperity. I could use some couldn’t you?
Off The Cob Podcast
The National Corn Growers Association has just started a new podcast series. Welcome to “Off the Cob”, an original podcast series produced by the National Corn Growers Association. This series features interviews with grower-leaders on hot topics in agriculture and will expand media options for those wishing to further their knowledge of the industry. The first piece looks at the …
John Walter is Social Media Superstar
Media Industry News selected one of our own as a Social Media Superstar. He’s John Walter, Successful Farming Executive Editor. John knows where we’ve been when it comes to convincing agrimarketers that farmers are like “regular people” when it comes to new and social media. Congratulations to him for this recognition! Walter was one of the founders of Agriculture.com, the …
Happy Holidays From AgCareers.com
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Advocating For Agriculture Awards Announced
The AG CONNECT Expo “Advocating for Agriculture” Awards winners have been announced. Over 20,000 votes were cast for the AG CONNECT Expo Awards! Thank you to all of you who participated! And the winners are… Ag Woman of the Year Award Grand prize winner: Liz Doornink Runner-up winner: Jolene Brown Community Leadership Award Grand prize winner: Fred Rogge Runner-up winner: …
Corn Yield Contest Winners Annouced
The National Corn Yield Contest winners have been announced. It’s been a challenging growing season weather wise but yields have been great. The National Corn Yield Contest is in its 45th year and remains NCGA’s most popular program for members. This year, NCGA has processed 6,960 entries – a 3.5 percent increase over 2008 (6,727 entries) and 41 percent increase …
Olympic Cranberries
Now this is going to be impressive. Thirteen million cranberries will be used to make a “colossal depiction of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s logo” and it will be floated in the Fraser River running in front of the Richmond Olympic Oval throughout the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The tribute celebrates Richmond’s top agricultural crop and honors the Winter Games. The …
Zimfo Bytes
FMC Corporation announced the introduction of Broadhead rice herbicide. Gary Tretter, G&J Farms, of Murphysboro, Ill. was drawn as the winner in a random drawing, and he now has the opportunity to demo a Challenger tractor on his operation. The Alltech-Muhammad Ali Center Global Education and Charitable Fund recently launched a cell phone recycling program. Proceeds from the sale of …
Holiday Greeting From IFAS
Thank you for the holiday wishes Mark McLellan, Dean of Research for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. If you have a holiday card you’d like to share then send it on. Judging from the slowdown in my email inbox, business activity has also started the holiday slowdown. A lot of companies take the next week …