This evening the Missouri Department of Agriculture hosted its annual legislative reception. Normally this consists of booths by commodity groups who serve food from their commodity. I know other states do this. One of the winners of the competition was the Missouri Soybean Association for their soy-based Pony Express green beer. Another winner was the Missouri Wine Industry which created …
New ZimmCast
Our newest ZimmCast is now available. I’m going to post a link to the mp3 file here: ZimmCast Normally you’ll find this in the sidebar where there’s a link to it and a podcast file that you can subscribe to if you use a program like iPodder. This week it’s the second part of my interview with Steve Mays, VP …
More About Ag & Blogs
I just got my ACDC News notice by email and no, it’s not a newsletter for a rock group! It’s basically a collection of stories that are collected and archived at the College of Agriculture, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Communications Documentation Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This issue contains some timely articles on blogging! Here’s their email: …
The AgriMarketing Pros Blog Has Moved
Hopefully we’ll be able to import the directories from our old blog site at hpp://zimmcomm.blogspot.com. If you’re looking for an old post for now you’ll have to visit there. Now that we’ve moved our blog to our own server you’ll see some new features and additions cropping up since we have more flexibility and capabilites. Thanks for visiting and we …
Welcome To Our Newest Client – Valent!
We’d like to welcome our newest Talking News Release client. Valent just received section 18 exemption for Domark fungicide to treat Asian Soybean Rust in 28 states. So, working with Brandy Craig at Archer-Malmo, we produced a TNR that was distributed to reporters in our database in those states. You can see the release here: Domark Fungicide Release It appears …
Student NAMA Competition Heats Up
Future agrimarketers? This is the Mizzou NAMA Chapter agrimarketing competition team. They’ll be facing off against about 40 other college teams from around the country in April at the NAMA convention in Phoenix. Today they gave a preliminary presentation to the sponsoring professional chapter in St. Louis to be critiqued and get ideas and suggestions. They did a good job …
New Ag Media Combination In The Sunshine State
Congratulations Gary & Robin! Once upon a time Cindy and I were partners with Gary Cooper in a Florida communications company called SunStar Telecom, Inc. We started and operated several divisions including Southeast Agrinet, WTMC-AM, SunStar Network, AgStar Advertising and were doing pretty good until the government took over the savings and loan company that was financing us. That’s a …
Positive Press For AgriMarketing Pros
It’s nice to see that what you’re doing is noticed. Especially when you can learn from it. Since we started this blog site we’ve been critiqued and many of the changes for the better have come from people who notice and care. For example, Robert French, who teaches at Auburn University and has a great blog of his own at …
New Client – AGCO
I’d like to welcome AGCO to the list of companies that are using Talking News Releases! We just sent out the first in a series of releases for them. You can see the first one here: Spray Guide Release We’re working with AGCO through a great agency located in MN – Broadhead + Co. Thank you Dean Broadhead!
Have You Read Your AgriMarketing?
The March issue is out and it’s all about “Connecting To Rural America.” I wrote an article on blogging in it which you can read online if you don’t get the magazine. There are other good articles as usual. You’ll notice a reference to the fact that Becky Rasmussen has moved on. I know she’ll be missed at the magazine …