It was in January of 2005 that I mentioned Global PR Week 1.0 here on AgWired. The conference was over at that point of course but it was one of those learning tools for me that let me see the power and effectiveness of new media. There was a Global PR Week 2.0 later that year but we haven’t had …
Cattle Industry Summer Conference Kicks Off
It’s Cattle Industry Summer Conference week in Denver and Amanda Nolz is on the ground doing some Beef Board blogging for us. Cindy just arrived at the airport from the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and yours truly is getting better from pneumonia or he’d be in Mexico with the United Soybean Board. Busy week. Here’s Amanda’s first interview from the …
AgChat Summary
Another AgChat session is in the can. This time the focus was on food safety. You can follow back through the conversation via Twitter. Here’s the questions that were posed. Q1 via @agriblogger Is it reasonable to expect that government can guarantee #food safety? #farm #agchat Q2 Via @TruffleMedia What will Food Safety Modernization Act ’09 do for consumers and …
Dow AgroSciences Acquires Pfister Hybrids
Here’s the latest change in the seed business and it’s a big one. Dow AgroSciences LLC announced today it is acquiring the majority of assets of Illinois based corn company Pfister Hybrids. The addition of Pfister Hybrids will further expand Dow AgroSciences’ current U.S. seeds business as the company anticipates the introduction of SmartStax(TM) in 2010 and Dow AgroSciences Herbicide …
Pioneer Launches Plenish
Soybean growers now have a new brand to add to their arsenal of seed options. This one from Pioneer Hi-Bred. Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, today introduced Plenish as the brand name for the high oleic soybean oil trait in the next generation of healthy soybean products from Pioneer. These products will bring more value to soybean growers in high-performing …
Marinade Your Meat on Demand
If you like to marinade your beef before cooking it then you might want to think Schwan’s courtesy of The Chicago Meat Authority. Take this Marinade on Demand Chimichurri Beef. Yes, Marinade on Demand. It doesn’t get any more convenient than that. Marinate with all of the flavor but none of the mess. SCHWAN’S® exclusive packaging lets you marinade your …
CAMA Alberta is Building Success in Agri-Marketing
It sounds like our agricultural marketing friends in Alberta are becoming more active. Thanks to Janet Kanters for an update. We’ll see her in Ft. Worth, TX very soon for the combined IFAJ/AMS meeting. After several years, the Alberta CAMA Chapter hosted its first meeting in April at Olds College in Olds, Alta. Over 60 people attended the networking social …
New Media Advice For Everyone
This is just too good to pass over. The following is new media advice from Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, to artists about ways to market themselves. It’s for anyone though regardless of what industry you’re in. He just plain gets it and says it better than I can. He sure hits the nail on the head about removing flash …
Forget Taxing Food
I don’t know what you think about it but it sure seems to me like we’ve got a government that thinks that the answer to every problem in our society can be fixed with a new program and new taxes. I’m just wondering where in the world they think that money is going to come from. Here’s the latest backlash …
Remembering Jack Eberspacher
I was very saddened to learn of the passing away of Jack Eberspacher, Ag Retailers Association. Cindy and I knew Jack first when he led what is now the National Sorghum Producers. We’ve had the opportunity to interview him and share good times and fellowship many times and he will be sorely missed. Here’s a statement by ARA: Jack Eberspacher, …