Here’s a promotional campaign with a lot of meat. Maybe you’re not ready for that Idol show yet? Try the “Be a Star on Broadway” contest courtesy of Land O’Frost and Camp Broadway. Land O’Frost, the nation’s largest family-owned packaged lunch meat company, wants homes across America to be “alive with the sound of music” by offering young performers a …
Make Learning Mobile With Float
In this week’s program we’re going to use the M word, as in Mobile, as in Float Mobile Learning. I just had a conversation with Chad Udell, Managing Director, about mobile learning technology and what that means for today’s agribusiness customers. Float Mobile’s parent company is the Iona Group. Chad says the company has a deep history working with agribusiness …
Reliv Launches LunaRich Soy Powder
Government working with private industry can make things happen. The Missouri Plant Science Center would be a good example. Reliv International, Inc. (NASDAQ:RELV), and Soy Labs LLC today announced the creation of LunaRich™, an exclusive soy powder developed at the Missouri Plant Science Center (MPSC). Reliv is adding LunaRich to one of its nutritional supplements and will reveal that product …
BASF Wins No-Till Awards Again
No-Till Farmer’s readers selected their products of the year which were presented at the recent National No-Till Conference and BASF was a big winner again. Headline® fungicide and Headline AMP™ fungicide were named top no-till products of 2011 for disease control during the 20th Annual National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. This marks the sixth consecutive year that Headline …
Gov’t. Agencies Say LightSquared System Can’t Work With GPS
Things are looking bleak for the proposed LightSquared LTE network according to a story in PC World. A key federal agency involved in testing the proposed LightSquared LTE network has concluded that there is no practical way to solve interference between that network and GPS, possibly dealing a crippling blow to the startup carrier’s hopes for a terrestrial mobile network. …
Mobile Technology Replacing Brochures At Trade Shows
Why pack cases of flyers or brochures to stack in your trade show booth when you can just bring along an iPad to display more information in a multi-media format? Pioneer Hi-Bred used to bring along more than 50 different product brochures to trade shows. Now they bring an iPad with a company-branded app. Pioneer, along with GROWMARK, worked with …
Assistance Available To Attend 2012 IFAJ Congress
It’s not too early to look ahead to the 2012 International Federation of Agricultural Journalists Congress which will take place in Sweden. It’s on my calendar. If you need some assistance going, one option is for AAEA members to apply for a professional development stipend. Another is for young agricultural communicators to apply for an IFAJ-Alltech Young Leader Award. AAEA …
European Network Of Agricultural Journalists Formed
It looks like you have to be a member to log in to the new website but the EU has a new ag journalist organization. The European network of Agricultural Journalists (ENAJ), a new organisation representing agricultural journalists from the EU was officially launched today in Brussels. The Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos was presented with the working charter for …
TOCA Offers Time Management Webinar
The Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association is offering a time management webinar to members and non-members. It will be held on January 26 at 2pm eastern time. As a non TOCA member, if you are interested in participating, please send us a $25 check payable to TOCA and send to: TOCA, 120 Main St. West, New Prague, MN 56071. Please …
National Farm Machinery Show App
Going to the National Farm Machinery Show? We are and we’ll have the new NFMS App on our iPhones! The first-ever mobile app, called “NFMS ’12,” for the National Farm Machinery Show is now available for free on smartphones (iPhone, Android and Blackberry) and features an interactive exhibitor map and listings, seminars and speakers, Championship Tractor Pull schedules, and Louisville …