Michael Peterson recruited Carly to ride on in the parade with him here at the CMA Music Festival. So she hopped on and joined the FFA members who rode in the sunshine as we kicked off another country music extravaganza. While Carly was riding, Cindy was multitasking in the back. Here in the picture you can see her shooting with …
FFA at CMA
New Holland and Michael Peterson showed their support for the FFA here at the CMA Music Festival once again. The officers of the Westmoreland FFA chapter rode with Michael in the kickoff parade. Before we got started I interviewed them. They’re north of Nashville about 45 minutes. They were pretty excited to ride along with Michael behind a new New …
Michael Peterson Parades at CMA Music Festival
The CMA Music Festival is underway in Nashville, TN. My good friend Michael Peterson was a crowd pleaser in the opening parade this afternoon. He and I found a cool place for an interview after the parade. Michael and I agree that it seems like there are even more people here than last year. It was a big crowd lining …
Tractor Racing in Nashville at Fan Fair
AgWired goes country this week at the 2009 Country Music Association’s annual summer Music Fest, commonly known as Fan Fair. Once again we’re sponsored by New Holland to cover their activities which culminate on Sunday with the Michael Peterson/New Holland Celebrity Tractor Race. You’ll be able to watch live video of the race, announced by AgriTalk’s Mike Adams, here via …
Farm Bureau Social Media Perspective
The American Farm Bureau Federation is having its annual Council of Presidents meeting in Boston, MA and I’m on location to do a presentation about social media this afternoon. During the lunch break I spoke with AFBF President, Bob Stallman, to get his perspective on the use of social media for an organization like his. Bob says, “We’ve always been …
AgWired RSS Trick
Although we have many people subscribing to the AgWired rss feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Agwired) what happens if you don’t want all our news? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just subscribe to the content you’re most interested in? Well you can. Here’s how: Let’s say you work for an advertising agency and would just like to subscribe to news we give …
You’ll Flip For a Mino HD
Now that we have daughter Carly working for us I gifted my Flip Ultra to her which of course allowed me an opportunity to try out the new Flip Mino HD. This little gadget is smaller and records in an HD format. I got mine on Amazon. To try it out I visited the Coffee Zone so you could meet …
Blogs and Podcasts are Relevant
Most of you probably don’t remember when radio got started or probably even when we moved from black and white to color tv. But if you were around then, it was a big deal. It was “all the buzz.” Technological advances in entertainment and communications are always interesting and can have profound impacts on how we receive information. Can you …
PowerIron
Iron is powerful and now Farm Progress Companies have PowerIron. Farm Progress Companies announces its latest content-driven response to reader information priorities: PowerIron. PowerIron is a well-designed, twice-monthly e-newsletter that covers news and products from the ag equipment and related industries. “As longtime publishers and industry observers, our aim is to provide our readers with a well-crafted, easy-to-read report on …
Novus Goes Platinum
Hundreds of people showed up today to tour the new Novus International headquarters in St. Charles, MO. It’s a beautiful facility and I especially liked the “Wellness Center” in which it looked like you could get a massage! That’s taking care of your employees. It is kind of like Novus day here on AgWired since Cindy and Carly are in …