If you’re wondering where Steve Engle is then wonder no more. Steve Engle is joining Pure Marketing and Media as Creative Director and as President of Pure Ag, the agency’s new agribusiness division. During his 28-year agency career, Engle has worked on many major accounts in a variety of industries, including Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, John Deere, Pioneer, DeKalb, Bank …
BASF Exclusive Sponsor of SoyRAP
It sounds like a certain kind of soy music but it isn’t. It’s actually great advice about soybean rust and aphids. BASF is proud to announce its exclusive partnership with the American Soybean Association (ASA) and Doane Advisory Services to provide the Soybean Rust and Aphids Program (SoyRAP) Web site (www.soyrap.com). BASF, among several companies, had previously been a co-sponsor …
Add American Lamb To Your Grill
A tasty sounding addition to your summer grill is American lamb. It looks like the competition was fierce when the American Lamb Board held their summer grilling recipe contest. When the smoke cleared, two contestants remained in the second annual “Get Your Grill On” American lamb video contest: Nikki Norman and the lamb loving duo, Matt Charpentier and Joe Riley. …
My Amercian Farm Teaches
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has an online game you can play to help teach about where your food comes from and how it gets to your dinner plate. It’s called My American Farm. It’s a very simple educational program that would be good for kids to play with and learn from.
Farm Progress Show On The Horizon
It’s time to look forward to the annual Farm Progress Show. I sure hope you’ve got your hotel reservations. Rich in history and tradition, the 56th annual Farm Progress Show, to be held September 1, 2 and 3 in Decatur, Ill., offers plenty for visitors to see and do which includes an expanded exhibit area, field and livestock demonstrations, and …
Travel Day To Ft. Worth, TX
Today Cindy and Carly will be heading to Ft. Worth, TX for the combined IFAJ Congress/Ag Media Summit. I’m sure going to miss everyone but that doesn’t mean I won’t be lurking online! Since so many Twittering friends will be attending this week please use the #AgMS hashtag in your tweets so we can all follow along. The program is …
ZimmComm ZimmCast
In this week’s program Cindy and I do a review of some of the ZimmComm activity of late and look ahead. We’re going to continue to roll down the agriblogging highway this summer. Actually Cindy gets to do a little extra in coming weeks while I recuperate from this pneumonia bug. In fact, we recorded the program in my hospital …
Update From ZimmComm World Headquarters
Since my bout with pneumonia was “outed” last week I thought I’d start out this week with an update for y’all. To start with, I’m feeling a lot better. Thank you to all who have expressed their well wishes and offered their prayers. It has been rough and I won’t deny it. But I should be home this week and …
A Posting Slowdown
Okay. Cindy has tweeted “My Twittering husband, who tweets photos of what he makes for dinner, doesn’t bother to tweet that he’s in the hospital for pneumonia.” She’s right. Maybe I should have been writing about this but I just couldn’t find the right “voice” for it and it’s been one of those things that has dragged on for a …
New Farm Podcaster Tool
If you don’t have a good digital audio recorder yet or are looking for a new one then Sony has introduced the PCM-M10. It’s the nice small form factor that makes these great to add to your gear bag. The PCM-M10 is conveniently small on size, but packs in many cool features: a five-second pre-record buffer, WAV and MP3 format …