John Walter is Social Media Superstar

Chuck Zimmerman

Media Industry News selected one of our own as a Social Media Superstar. He’s John Walter, Successful Farming Executive Editor. John knows where we’ve been when it comes to convincing agrimarketers that farmers are like “regular people” when it comes to new and social media. Congratulations to him for this recognition! Walter was one of the founders of Agriculture.com, the …

Media

Advocating For Agriculture Awards Announced

Chuck Zimmerman

The AG CONNECT Expo “Advocating for Agriculture” Awards winners have been announced. Over 20,000 votes were cast for the AG CONNECT Expo Awards! Thank you to all of you who participated! And the winners are… Ag Woman of the Year Award Grand prize winner: Liz Doornink Runner-up winner: Jolene Brown Community Leadership Award Grand prize winner: Fred Rogge Runner-up winner: …

Uncategorized

Corn Yield Contest Winners Annouced

Chuck Zimmerman

The National Corn Yield Contest winners have been announced. It’s been a challenging growing season weather wise but yields have been great. The National Corn Yield Contest is in its 45th year and remains NCGA’s most popular program for members. This year, NCGA has processed 6,960 entries – a 3.5 percent increase over 2008 (6,727 entries) and 41 percent increase …

Ag Groups, Corn, NCGA

Olympic Cranberries

Chuck Zimmerman

Now this is going to be impressive. Thirteen million cranberries will be used to make a “colossal depiction of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s logo” and it will be floated in the Fraser River running in front of the Richmond Olympic Oval throughout the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The tribute celebrates Richmond’s top agricultural crop and honors the Winter Games. The …

International

Holiday Greeting From IFAS

Chuck Zimmerman

Thank you for the holiday wishes Mark McLellan, Dean of Research for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. If you have a holiday card you’d like to share then send it on. Judging from the slowdown in my email inbox, business activity has also started the holiday slowdown. A lot of companies take the next week …

University

The Agency Formerly Known As Pure Marketing

Chuck Zimmerman

Pure was known as Pure Marketing & Media. Now the name is purely Pure. The company just announced the launch of a new brand identity built around its exclusive p.u.r.i.f.y.™ brand development process. The new identity includes an enhanced Web site as well as a dramatic new logo and supporting tag line: Distilling potent brands™. “At Pure, we believe there’s …

Agencies

Beach Blogging

Chuck Zimmerman

Agriblogging will be happening from the beach for a few days as Cindy and I try to escape the cold, almost winter, temperatures. Although it’s looking like we’re going to have some weather move in tonight. It looks like a chunk of the southeast has had too much rain for a change. We drove past several flooding rivers in Alabama …

ZimmComm Announcement

Learn About BBQ

Chuck Zimmerman

If you love BBQ then you might like BBQ Pitmasters, a new series on TLC. It airs Thursdays at 9pm Central. The BBQ & Grilling channel is here to help you cook an amazing meal on the grill. Read how to smoke a chicken, grill a juicy hamburger and learn how to obtain the perfect grill marks on your foods. …

Food, Video

United Soybean Board Answering Grower Questions

Chuck Zimmerman

How will the wet fall impact this year’s prices? How can I use social media to promote my farm? What are our competitors in Brazil doing right now? These are all questions you’ll find answered on the United Soybean Board’s Expert Advice Column. It’s part of the newly designed website and we’ve been featuring interviews with the experts who are …

Ag Groups, Soybean, USB