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 …
Quarry Idea Exchange
With an alert from the Quarry Integrated Communications Twitter feed I was pointed to their blog: Idea Exchange. It contains “a series of articles examining ways to thrive, not just survive, in 2009.” Here’s an example. You all know the deal. During periods of economic instability, your organization will focus with laser-like precision on the bottom line, allocating dollars to …
AdFarm Fargo Assists With Flooding
I know that the flooding in North Dakota may have subsided but I’m sure the results are going to be felt for some time to come. I have been meaning to post this but hadn’t really had a chance to until this morning. The folks at AdFarm’s office in Fargo were certainly in the thick of it. For example, the …
Layoffs At Des Moines Deere
I hope this isn’t a trend we’ll be seeing in the industry. It’s a very short announcement sent out today by Deere & Company: Deere & Company said today that 160 employees of the John Deere Des Moines Works will be placed on indefinite layoff later this month due to reduced market demand for the factory’s products. Deere said the …
#agchat Session on Twitter
I participated in a very cool use of Twitter tonight. Let’s call it #agchat. That’s the hashtag we used for our tweets to post into the conversation and to reply to each other. As of this post we have 248 tweets posted. Post Update: by ending time we have 331 tweets. The idea is to do this on Tuesday evenings …
The Derry Brownfield Show
I had a very enjoyable lunch today with my good friend Derry Brownfield. I know a lot of you know of Derry. He’s that farm broadcaster who is rude, crude, obnoxious, politically incorrect . . . (self description). I worked with Derry for almost 10 years and we covered a lot of miles together. Derry is still hosting his daily …
Earth Day Beef Rap
Nothing fuels an Earth Day dinner better than beef. I think that’s what Beef Ambassador Allison Grainger and friends are telling us in this Earth Day Beef Rap video. Let me know what you think. I’m sure Allison will be watching.
Rabobank Farm & Ranch Confidence Survey
Rabobank has released results of its 2009 Farm & Ranch Survey. A couple of highlight include: * More farmers are using risk management tools * 1/3 of farmers expect crop input costs to decrease * More farmers looking to buy used equipment Rabobank recently launched a survey to gauge farmers’ confidence, and found that, while farmers’ outlook on the economy …