During the O.H. Kruse Grand Opportunities event the company showcases its products in a Buying Showcase. This trade show also includes a number of companies who work with the Kruse as I’ve heard several call it. O.H. Kruse either uses their products or represents them in the western U.S. marketplace. One of those companies is ADM. I visited with Scott …
The O.H. Kruse Family Get Together
O.H. Kruse Grain & Milling is a family business and Ashli Cole, Marketing/Customer Care Mgr., says that they consider all of their customers part of the Kruse family. I spoke with her at the start of today’s Grand Opportunities event to get a preview of what attendees will find. During the day we have the Buying Show which is located …
Customer Appreciation with O.H. Kruse
Hello and welcome to the 2013 O.H. Kruse Grain & Milling Customer Appreciation Day. There are some “Grand Opportunities” awaiting the attendees today and I’m going to let you know about them throughout the day. This is my second trip to Tulare, CA with O.H. Kruse. We’re located in the International Agri-Center once again. The O.H. Kruse story is a …
Fishing is like Farming
Of course I can come up with a way to connect offshore sports fishing to farming. It’s about food, passion, hard work and dealing with governmental regulations. Here’s my fishing group from this weekend offshore on the Vitamin Sea. Pictured (l-r) are the @FarmPodcaster (my wife Cindy), yours truly, my daughter Chelsea and Gary Cooper, Southeast AgNet/AgNet West. We had …
Will We Farm with Glass?
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this week’s program we’re going to talk about Glass, as in Google Glass.
2013 Blog Action Day
The 2013 Blog Action Day is approaching fast. I think this year’s topic is a good one – Human Rights. That can apply to so many things and farming and food fit right in. So whatever your blog is about think about participating and letting your voice be heard. Courtesy of: http://www.blogactionday.org
Next NAMA Webinar
It’s time to register for the National Agri-Marketing Association’s next webinar. How are Ag Marketers Different Than Those in Other Industries? Presented by Jan Johnson, Millennium Research Ag marketers use print ads more than other industries. And, they rely on repeat customers more than any other industry. When you are talking to people you already know, what’s the best thing …
2013 World Food Day
I like to think of every day as food day but there is that special day each October as proclaimed by the FAO – World Food Day. Once a year, on 16 October, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations commemorates its inception by celebrating efforts and raising awareness for the worlds hunger and nutrition problems. The focus …
John Deere Dealer Perspective
Jeff Barnes, Greenway Equipment, a John Deere dealership, is their manager of farm technology. He says yesterday’s announcements from John Deere of their new Developer.Deere.com portal and the MyJohnDeere Data API is a big step for the company. I talked with him to get his perspective on what the company is doing. He says their dealership has been actively involved …
2013 IFAJ Congress Video
The organizers of the 2013 International Federation of Agricultural Journalists Congress have just posted a video that gives you a great overview of the enjoyable time we had in Argentina last month. For those of us who went it brings back good recent memories. For those of you who could not attend or have wondered about what such a conference …