The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance board is in session in New York City. I’m in the audience right now and will be featuring some thoughts from various members of the board while I’m here. We’ll be taking a break to attend The Food Dialogues which will be a live web stream featuring three different panel discussions. It will start …
Honoring NAFB President Tom Steever
The NAFB president’s banquet Friday night honored Tom Steever of Brownfield Ag News who received toasts and more than a few little roasts for his distinguished career as a farm broadcaster and officer for the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. A hoarse Orion Samuelson emceed the dinner, which provided lots of laughs in itself, such as a quip that he …
NAFB Makes an Egg Souffle
It’s not all business and hard work at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention. It can also be a hilarious educational opportunity. The Egg Lady, Jo Manhart, orchestrated an egg souffle making demonstration just prior to today’s luncheon. Four NAFB members were given separate jobs to get an egg souffle in the oven before the end of the William …
A Monsanto Ground Breaker
Here’s Bruce Trautman, a Nebraska farmer and Monsanto Ground Breaker. This season, Monsanto will be piloting the Ground Breakers program with its new drought-tolerant corn system, Genuity® DroughtGard™ Hybrids. Approximately 250 growers throughout the Western Great Plains region including South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado will have the opportunity to plant Genuity® DroughtGard™ Hybrids on their farm. Through …
Getting Ready For Food Dialogues
Put November 15, 2012 on your calendar to tune it to the USFRA Food Dialogues which will be streaming live from New York City. Yours truly will be there covering the event. During the 2012 National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention I got an update on the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance from board chairman Bob Stallman, President, AFBF. Here’s …
ZimmComm Team at NAFB
Here’s the ZimmComm team (Jamie, Cindy and me) collecting all our photos and interviews from Trade Talk today at the NAFB Convention. We’ve got lots. Photos are being updated in the photo album right now. Interviews will be showing up for days and days! We’ve moving on to NAFB business meetings this afternoon with a reception and dinner tonight. Right …
2012 NAFB Convention Underway
The 2012 National Association of Farm Broadcasting Convention is underway. Farm broadcasters are broadcasting and meetings are taking place. The ZimmComm team is on the scene and we’ve already started a convention photo album for your viewing and sharing pleasure. You can find it here: 2012 NAFB Convention Photo Album. And remember that you can get the free AgWired App …
Almost Split Vote on GMO Food Labeling
Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Should foods containing GMO crops be labeled?” The Prop 37 ballot initiative in California prompted us to ask the question. Well, the initiative failed while our poll showed that most answered yes to our question by a very narrow margin. Interesting. Your thoughts? Feel free to chime in with a comment. Our poll results: …
AgWired App Update
The AgWired App for iOS has been updated. Did you update yours? Or perhaps you don’t have our app for your device yet. You can find it in the Apple App Store as well as Google Play. The AgWired App brings you all of the ZimmComm News Network content that includes AgWired as well as PrecisionPays.com, energy.agwired.com and WorldDairyDiary.com. You …
2012 NAFB Convention Preview
This year the theme of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention is “Our Rich Heritage, A Bridge to the Future.” Cindy, Jamie and I will be there and you can bet you’ll find photos and interviews right here. So, let’s get started. Mark Oppold, RFD-TV, is the NAFB President-Elect and has worked hard putting this year’s convention together, along …