I remember him well when he interned for me many moons ago. He was such a promising lad. Glad to see he kept his promise and congratulations Curt! The photo is from the ZimmComm archive at NAMA Boot Camp last year. Successful Farming announces the promotion of Curt Blades to Sales and Marketing Manager. In his new role Curt will …
TractorHouse.com Now Has Live Auction
You can now sell your tractor by auction on the web at TractorHouse.com. Online Auction Listings are now ‘live’ on TractorHouse.com. Consistent TractorHouse advertisers now have the option to auction their equipment to a worldwide buying audience, 24/7/365. All machines are auctioned directly by dealers to registered bidders on the Web site. Seller’s fees are minimal, and there are no …
Combine Combat in Top 5
Have you played Combine Combat? If so, you’ve played one of the top 5 magazine web games according to minonline.com. Here’s what they said about it: Years after its release, Agriculture.com’s simple arcade game remains one of the few b2b online games around, and it still holds up. You try to clear a field with your combine before the computer-controlled …
My Lady’s Manor Steeplechase Race
I saw my first steeplechase races live and exciting today in Monkton, MD thanks to the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show. It was a wet and wild day at My Lady’s Manor Steeplechase races. Can you say “mud?” I left after the main race which you can see the winner of here. I got very lucky and was …
Driving A Green One
This is what the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show is all about. Driving John Deere equipment. Today’s show stop is set up perfectly for people like Carl Daly, here to test drive the new line of utility tractors and vehicles. We’ll meet Carl in a video interview I’ll post with him on the show blog in coming days. …
Pennsylvania Farm
If you’ve got to work on Good Friday at least doing it in a place this pretty helps. This is just one of the farms in the Oxford, PA area. I’m on location with the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show at Atlantic Tractor today. Tomorrow I’ll be at Our Lady’s Manor Steeplechase. I don’t know anything about it …
Public Relations Grant Available
Hello non-profits. Here’s a chance to obtain a grant for public relations services. The folks at Harvest PR & Marketing want to help you out. If chosen, they would start working for you in June. At Harvest PR & Marketing, Inc., we believe big ideas can sprout from the smallest and unlikeliest of places. And, with a little nurturing, those …
AnimalAgNet
Okay. Here’s a new social network for animal agribusiness. What do you think? Good idea? It looks like it has internal special interest groups. Is this going to be of sufficient value/benefit to draw in significant participation? Although I’m a big fan of social networking I have wondered how these types of online communities are faring. I’ve seen some that …
NAMA Blog
Speaking of NAMA. I’ll be the NAMA blogger once again this year and you can find posts on the NAMA blog. As you can see it’s being sponsored by Successful Farming, just like AgWired! Thank you Agriculture.com. Cindy will be with me and we’ve got help from Michelle Kautz, who is doing free lance writing for us on our Domestic …
Sunrise Soothes My Soul
It’s a travel day for the agriblogger. I’m heading east for a couple days work on the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show. These stops will wrap up the east/south route and then the big rig heads west through Missouri. I had to stop off the highway on the way to the airport this morning for this photo. You can also …