Pure was known as Pure Marketing & Media. Now the name is purely Pure. The company just announced the launch of a new brand identity built around its exclusive p.u.r.i.f.y.™ brand development process. The new identity includes an enhanced Web site as well as a dramatic new logo and supporting tag line: Distilling potent brands™. “At Pure, we believe there’s …
Beach Blogging
Agriblogging will be happening from the beach for a few days as Cindy and I try to escape the cold, almost winter, temperatures. Although it’s looking like we’re going to have some weather move in tonight. It looks like a chunk of the southeast has had too much rain for a change. We drove past several flooding rivers in Alabama …
Obama Administration Partners with Ranchers to Combat Climate Change
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today spoke at the key note event, Clean Energy Investments: Creating Opportunities for Rural Economies, at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to a recent release by USDA. In an effort to improve the environment, Vilsack hopes to provide opportunities for food producers to do just that. “Rural economies will benefit from …
Headline Harvest Report from Conrad, Iowa
Getting these BASF Headline harvest reports done this fall (yes, it is still fall) has been a challenge, to put it mildly. We’ve been trying desperately to get interviews set up with farmers since late October – in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. We did okay in Missouri, but when the harvest kept getting later and the rain kept falling, it …
Learn About BBQ
If you love BBQ then you might like BBQ Pitmasters, a new series on TLC. It airs Thursdays at 9pm Central. The BBQ & Grilling channel is here to help you cook an amazing meal on the grill. Read how to smoke a chicken, grill a juicy hamburger and learn how to obtain the perfect grill marks on your foods. …
Headline Harvest Report from West Union, Iowa
I guess it would be more correct to call these BASF Headline POST-harvest reports, even though there is still about eight percent of the corn left in the fields at this point. Iowa farmers are pretty much done with this season, including Henry Miller of West Union, which is in the northeast part of the state. We caught up with …
United Soybean Board Answering Grower Questions
How will the wet fall impact this year’s prices? How can I use social media to promote my farm? What are our competitors in Brazil doing right now? These are all questions you’ll find answered on the United Soybean Board’s Expert Advice Column. It’s part of the newly designed website and we’ve been featuring interviews with the experts who are …
Zimfo Bytes
Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear Bureau Northwest, has been named chairman of the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council. BASF and the National Agricultural Aviation Association unveiled a scholarship program designed to help its recipients pursue a career in agricultural aviation. Novus International, Inc. announced its intent to acquire the Animal Nutrition Division of Albion Laboratories Inc. Syngenta Seeds, …
Farmland Investment With Chicago Farmers
With winter fast approaching it’s time to make your farm meeting plans. Make one of them the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair, February 6, 2010. I’ll be one of their seminar presenters with the topic of social media. To learn more about Chicago Farmers and their annual program I spoke with the Chairman of the upcoming event, Jeff Martin, an …
Vote In Alpharma Student Video Contest
If you haven’t voted for your favorite video in the Alpharma, Reach Teach Learn Student Video Contest, now’s the time. Voting began on Monday, November 30 and goes through December 28, 2009. Earlier this fall ag students from across the country submitted short video clips depicting anything related to agriculture and food production. Students received a $25 gift card for …