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International Trade Is Now Causing Global Warming

Chuck Zimmerman

The folks at the United Nations are at it again, this time along with the World Trade Organization. Last time it was their idiotic report about how cows and other forms of livestock are contributing so much to global warming (now calling it climate change which I believe happens naturally every year). This time they’ve moved a step ahead to …

Environment, Farm Policy, International, Wackos

Katy Trail River Scene

Chuck Zimmerman

This Missouri River scene is just one reason why I like biking on the Katy Trail. Its very peaceful and relaxing. And my new iPhone takes pretty good pictures! Post Update: The first edition of this post was from my iPhone, using the WordPress app, but I found I need to work on some settings since I had to edit …

Uncategorized

Protest Bank of America’s HSUS Credit Card

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s something to fire you up on a summer Thursday. As reported on CattleNetwork this morning, Bank of America is now offering “The Humane Society of the United States® WorldPoints® Platinum Plus® Visa® Card.” Thank BOA. Help provide funds (25 cents of every 100 dollars charged) to an organization that essentially misleads people to get their money to fund their …

Animal Activists

Ray-Lin Dairy Blog

Chuck Zimmerman

More and more farmers are speaking out in the social web world and I think it’s great. Take Ray Prock, Ray-Lin Dairy. He’s got a blog going and is very active on Twitter. Welcome to Ray-Lin Dairy’s newly minted blog. To start with here is a little background information about us. We are a second generation Dairy Farm located in …

Farming

Live Horse TV = H-SPAN

Chuck Zimmerman

You’ve heard of C-SPAN. Now there’s H-SPAN. The H is for Horse. HorseTV, the first and only multi-platform television network dedicated to providing programming for a worldwide equestrian audience, announced today the launch of H-SPAN, the industry-serving component of its online television portal. With the announcement of the H-SPAN activation and the amazing lineup of initial programming included in the …

Horses

Speedy iPhone Has Arrived

Chuck Zimmerman

The S stands for speed and starting today we’re going to find out how much better the AgriBlogger phone of choice works. That’s because my new iPhone 3G S has arrived. I’ve been asked to do a review on it which I intend to do after a couple of days of working with it. Activation was simple and so was …

Equipment

AgChat Summary

Chuck Zimmerman

I enjoyed another great AgChat session tonight. This time the focus was on Food, Inc. the movie. You can follow back through the conversation via Twitter. It was obvious that most of us participating haven’t had a chance to see the movie yet but you can watch the trailer and read around their website or get the associated book to …

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Paul Rea New Director, U.S. Crop Business For BASF

Chuck Zimmerman

BASF Crop Protection has a new Director, U.S. Crop Business. Paul Rea steps into that role effective July 1. Rea brings more than 14 years of global management experience in the agriculture business to the position. He most recently served as Director of BASF Specialty Products business within BASF North America Crop Protection, comprising three units: Professional Pest Control, Professional …

Agribusiness, BASF

Pitching Stories To Bloggers

Chuck Zimmerman

If you’re interested in learning something about pitching stories to bloggers you might want to participate in a today’s webinar that’s part of the Communicating Renewables Webinar series. There’s still time to register. All the information is posted below. Although our topic is energy, the things we’ll discuss are applicable to any industry. I’m one of the presenters. If you’ve …

Public Relations

Ag Relations Council Silent Auction

Chuck Zimmerman

While you’re attending this year’s Agricultural Media Summit/IFAJ Congress you’ll have a chance to support student attendees and ARC. In fact, you can help out right now by donating an item for the auction. Auction proceeds will go toward underwriting a lowered student registration fee for AMS, thus ensuring participation by the maximum number of potential industry newcomers. We need …

Ag Media Summit, IFAJ