Missourians For Animal Care continue to fight the HSUS battle by releasing another video to help create public awareness. Our mission is to promote and protect Missouri’s vibrant and diverse agriculture, which includes livestock and domesticated animals. Like ’em on Facebook. A ballot initiative is currently underway in the state of Missouri. This ballot initiative is called “The Puppy Mill …
Cow Appreciation Day At Chick-fil-A
Feel like cow dressing this Friday? You can get some free food at Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is issuing a cattle call! On Friday, July 9, Chick-fil-A® restaurants nationwide will celebrate the company’s annual Cow Appreciation Day event by offering a FREE meal to any customer who visits one of the chain’s mall or stand-alone restaurants fully dressed as a cow. Customers …
NAMA Professional Development Awards Nomination Deadline
For those of you just waiting for a chance to nominate me for a NAMA Professional Development Award of Excellence, now is you time. LOL. Seriously though, the deadline for nominations is approaching – July 20. I’m sure you can think of a client, customer or a co-worker who deserves the recognition of his or her peers for their outstanding …
Wisconsin Cheese Cupid
Do you love cheese? Love wine? Want to know which ones go with which? There’s an app for that and it’s called Wisconsin Cheese Cupid. Get the app here. What cheese goes with your wine? What beer goes with your cheese? These questions can finally be answered with Wisconsin Cheese Cupid. With this handy dandy iPhone and iPod Touch application, …
Indy Racing Photo Pro
Happy holiday from ZimmComm. I hope everyone is enjoying a little time off before getting back to work. In this week’s program I’d like to introduce you to the man who is Indy photography. He’s Ron McQueeny, Indy Racing League, Director of Photography. That’s Ron in the picture providing pre-race direction to all of us photographers who were shooting the …
Alltech Pleased With Dairy Symposium Success
The Dairy Solutions Symposium, sponsored by Alltech has come to an end. The theme of the conference was Rumen Health: A 360 Degree Analysis. I think we did look at the subject from just about every angle possible. I started my coverage of the conference with a preview interview with Sylvie Andrieu, European Ruminant Technical Manager, Alltech. So what better …
Dairy Solutions Symposium Via Alltech Continues
The Dairy Solutions Symposium, sponsored by Alltech, is not only technical presentations on rumen health but an opportunity to network with fellow dairy industry professionals and have some fun. Our gala dinner last night took place at the DierenPark Amersfoort, a very nice zoo. We ate very near the elephant exhibit. I sat with participants from Brazil and Poland and …
Eating Rural Home Grown In China
Zachary Larson, Borlaug Summer Intern, is on location at Nanjing Agricultural University and providing us with updates this summer of his trip. Here’s his latest. You can also find a photo album he’s got started here: Borlaug Summer Intern Photo Album. The internship is being sponsored by the Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute. It has been been two weeks …
Healthy Rumen Is A Dairy Solution
The Dairy Solutions Symposium, sponsored by Alltech, was opened by Prof. Wouter Hendriks, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. There are 250 attendees at this year’s event being held at Utrecht University. It’s a good thing there aren’t more because that’s capacity seating in the auditorium where our presentations are taking place. The overall topic for the Symposium is rumen health in …
Utrecht, Netherlands is Bike City
Hello from Utrecht, Netherlands where I’ll be attending the 2010 Dairy Solutions Symposium, sponsored by Alltech. Just got in this morning and after a short nap went for a walk. I’ve never seen so many bicycles. They’re everywhere and just about every kind you can think of. This is a biking town no doubt. For lunch I had a really …