Living The Country Life magazine is now available by subscription for the iPad! The cost is currently $7.95 for four issues. Ideas and inspiration for your place in the country. Living the Country Life magazine is America’s leading rural lifestyle magazine designed to provide ideas and inspiration to people who enjoy living in the country. Readers are passionate about their …
Marketing and Risk Management With AgriVisor
Here’s the latest installment of our “Getting To Know GROWMARK” series. We’re going to talk risk management with Cory Winstead, AgriVisor, a joint venture between GROWMARK and the Illinois Farm Bureau. AgriVisor is a full service Agricultural Advisory firm that works closely with you, to provide a complete set of Agriculture Risk Management tools and Marketing services that are unique …
Green Floyd is Willin’
For your entertainment pleasure Green Floyd will now perform their ethanol version of Willin’. This was recorded at the recent National Ethanol Conference and I hope you enjoy it. Apologies to Lowell George but I think he would have loved it! Green Floyd lyrics include: I’ve been kicked by the press Shunned by Wall Street Got my margins caved in, …
When Will Planting Start
Our latest ZimmPoll didn’t really generate a lot of responses. I thought that there would be a lot of excitement about planting. However, the results are in. So your answer to the question, “When will planting season start this year?” is as follows: 37 percent say later than average, 36 percent say at the five year average (late March) and …
USDA ERS Atlas of Rural and Small Town America
USDA’s Economic Research Service has created an online Atlas of Rural and Small Town America that you might find interesting. It’s an interactive map that allows you to select broad categories of data including people, jobs and agriculture. You can select specific counties to get information or areas like regions and states. ERS promotes the well-being of rural America through …
Pioneer Partners With NBC Learn
At the Commodity Classic Pioneer announced a “partnership with NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, to bring science to life for high school students in Iowa and Illinois. The program is focused on building students’ understanding and interest in agricultural science by providing innovative, video-based educational resources to schools at no cost.” I spoke with Todd Frazier about …
ARC Announces Agricultural Public Relations Hall of Fame
The board of directors of the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) has approved creation of the first agricultural hall of fame for public relations to recognize individuals for lifetime achievement. Our friends at Agri Marketing magazine are the founding sponsor of the ARC Agricultural Public Relations Hall of Fame. The first awards will be presented next year to one or more …
Farmers At SXSW
At the just completed SXSW, farmers and agriculture were very much a part of the discussion. For example, Emily Zweber, Jeff Fowle, Chris Chinn and Zach Hunnicutt shared “how farmers are using social and new media to bridge the gap between the 2% of the population who are farmers, and the remaining 98% of people who are not.” The panel …
GROWMARK Names 2011 Essay Contest Winner
For the eighteenth year, GROWMARK held it’s Iowa Essay Contest. The winner in 2011 is Sarah Goode of Coggon, Iowa. The theme of this year’s contest was “The Importance of Agriculture in Everyday Life.” In her contest entry, Goode said: “At the forefront of technology and innovative comprehension, agriculture provides for our basic needs and cravings, aiding our way of …
iPad 2 Review
I got the new iPad 2 yesterday and thought I’d share my first impressions. In fact I’m typing this on the new one with the WordPress app. The first comment is that thinner and lighter are an apt description. It just feels sleeker. And the first wasn’t bad. So for portability purposes this is a plus. With iTunes, syncing all …