The Agricultural Relations Council held its business meeting this morning. New officers were elected that include: Mace Thornton, President, Mike Opperman, First vice President, Janice Person, Second Vice President, Rebecca Colnar, Secretary/Treasurer, Deron Johnson, Immediate Past President, Erik Ness, Director, Amy Keith McDonald, Director, Daren R. Williams, Director, Keri Geffert English, Director. Congratulations to all of them. The organization is …
Communicating The Illinois Farm Family Message
One of the members of our first panel discussion at the 2012 Agricultural Relations Council annual meeting is Carla Mudd, Illinois Farm Bureau. She is Manager of Consumer Communication with the task of educating non-farm folks about Illinois family farmers. One of the ways she’s doing that is through Illinois Farm Families, a coalition of several Illinois farm groups. Carla …
2012 ARC Annual Meeting Underway
The 2012 Agricultural Relations Council is underway and it is one of the largest in many years. Welcoming us today is Mace Thornton, AFBF, who is serving as President of ARC this year. We’re inside this afternoon for presentations before going on a farm tour tomorrow that includes a visit to the Clemson Research Center. Annual Golden ARC awards are …
Precision Laboratories Announces Mix Tank 2.0
Today Precision Laboratories released Mix Tank 2.0, the new version of their Mix Tank App released a year ago. The new version in now available for Android in addition to the Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad). According to this morning’s announcement it should show up in both stores by later today. The company just held a webinar for media that included comments …
ARC Board Meeting
Hello from the 2012 Agricultural Relations Council Annual Meeting. The ARC board is hard at it this morning in advance of our midday welcome and first educational session. That session will be on “Building Bridges: Farm Organizations/Consumer Outreach Panel.” I’ll be taking some photos and doing some interviews which will be posted here on AgWired so don’t despair if you …
Organic Not Healthier than Conventional Food
Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Is “Organic” food healthier than “Conventional” food?” The majority of respondents said No at 60 percent with only 40 percent saying Yes. Most of the people I know don’t think organic means healthier and although they like I will eat something that is certified organic we just don’t want to pay more for it. …
2012 World Pork Expo
It’s not too early to get your plans made for this year’s World Pork Expo. If you don’t have a hotel room you’d better get on it too since the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championship will be in Des Moines at the same time as World Pork Expo again this year. BTW. We have sponsorship opportunities for …
AAEA New Media Awards
The American Agricultural Editors Association has announced its first New Media Awards Program. This is a very progressive move and I applaud them for it. It will be interesting to see the results and I’m betting there are already unanticipated questions for the competition. For example, I wonder if someone who is an Active member can submit entries in both …
Five Years of Tweets
It has been five years since I started my Twitter account – @AgriBlogger. My how time and tweets fly. I’m currently at 12,099 tweets but I’m sure that will increase by the time you read this even. My current tweet average is 6.6 times per day. I wondered what my first tweet was but have no idea and gave up …
Previewing ARC Annual Meeting
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Relations Council takes place this week in Charleston, SC. I’ll be on site starting Wednesday afternoon and will bring you all the sights and sounds that I can. To get a preview of this year’s ARC annual meeting agenda I spoke with ARC President, Mace Thornton, AFBF. Mace says more people are attending …