The 2010 Annual Meeting of the ASFMRA will be held Nov. 1-4 in Orlando Florida under the theme, ’81 Years of Magic’. American Farmland Trust has launched “Dine out for Farms” – a national, weeklong event (Oct. 10-16) that will bring together restaurants and consumers together across the country to support a sustainable future for America’s farms. Bunge North America …
Reaction to USDA Crop Forecast
Both corn and soybean production for this year were cut in this month’s crop report out this morning from USDA. Corn production is forecast at 12.7 billion bushels, down 4 percent from the September forecast and down 3 percent from last year’s record production of 13.1 billion bushels. Soybean production is forecast at a record high 3.41 billion bushels, down …
Farm Policy Outlook For 2011
Straight from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference is a video with one of the presenters produced by Paulsen Marketing. The 2010 Trends in Agriculture conference wrapped up with a Washington update: what to expect in 2011. Jim Wiesemeyer, senior vice president of policy and trade issues for Informa Economics Inc.’s Washington office, says the next few years could be …
Engaging Agricultural Communities
Straight from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference is a video with one of the presenters produced by Paulsen Marketing. How do agrimarketing firms find and engage agriculture communities and consumers? Joseph Rueter, a partner in Curation Station in Minneapolis, shared his insights with the Trends in Agriculture conference.
Macro Food Trends
Straight from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference is a video with panel participants produced by Paulsen Marketing. The second day of NAMA’s Trends in Agriculture kicked off with a panel discussion on “Macro Food Trends.” Dan Halstrom is the Senior Vice President of marketing and communication for the U.S. Meat Export Federation. He emphasized a focus on global trade …
Zimfo Bytes
During the month of September, as part of Hunger Action Month, 55 food banks in 24 states received monetary donations on behalf of Weeding out Hunger, a hunger-relief campaign based on grower purchases of Halex GT corn herbicide. The National Corn Growers Association announced that Kyle Fergason has been promoted to National Corn Yield Contest Manager and will handle the …
Dr. Jay Lehr Discusses Communicating Ag’s Story To Consumers
Straight from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference is a video with one of the presenters produced by Paulsen Marketing. Dr. Jay Lehr capped off the first day of NAMA’s Trends in Agriculture in Minneapolis. Dr. Lehr, an economist and futurist, talked about the challenges agrimarketers have in communicating agriculture’s story to consumers.
NAMA Trends In Agriculture Via Paulsen Marketing
Once again this year I’m sharing a series of videos from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference that have been produced by Paulsen Marketing. Here is the first installment. The kick-off session got underway with Mark Pearson of Market to Market, talking about “Agriculture in a Globally Local World.” Pearson says the shift in how we’re connected with the rest …
DDGS Business Conference Featured On AgriTalk
Just because the sponsor of my coverage here at the Export Exchange 2010 DDGS conference is the Renewable Fuels Association, and just because RFA VP Research, Geoff Cooper (right) was being interviewed, I am posting the often seen and purely voluntary AgriTalk post. Host Mike Adams and Producer John Herath are also pictured. I’m just saying that it’s a nice …
Novus Spreads the Truth about Eggs
Did you know that October 8 is World Egg Day? This is a very timely event with all the bad publicity this good food has received lately here in the U.S. Novus International has joined with industry associations on two continents to celebrate this year’s World Egg Day and bring awareness to the affordability and nutritional value of eggs. According …