The agriblogging highway runs to Orlando, FL next week and the Weed Science Society of America annual meeting. I’ll be speaking on the subject of “Agricultural Communications in a New Media World.” Here’s part of my program abstract: What do today’s web savvy growers do when in need of information? Just like most anyone else they go online and search …
AgWired Live TV Brings You Drive Green Show
We were broadcasting live earlier this evening from the Ft. Worth Stock Show & Rodeo in Watt Arena. Here’s the setup. I really didn’t know we’d have fairly good internet access but thought I’d give it a try. So, while my Mac was broadcasting live, I was recording the show with a video camera and also an audio recorder. I …
2007 Census of Agriculture Release Day
This is the big day for all you agriculture statistics fanatics. USDA will be releasing the 2007 Census of Agriculture. Yep. Old data. The Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and …
Register Now For Farmland Investment Fair
I just spoke with Jeff Martin, Co-Chair for the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair and he encourages everyone interested in how to use social media marketing to attend. Speaking at one of the seminars will be Jeff Korhan, green industry speaker, video blogger, Internet marketer, and the founder of True Nature. Jeff gave me background on the organization and fair …
Ft. Worth Stock Show & Rodeo President Bob Watt
The President of the Ft. Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is Bob Watt. He also used to be the General Manager but that position is now being done by Brad Barnes who I hope to meet while I’m here. I sat down with Bob in his office this morning to learn all about him and this big show. Bob has …
We’re Supporting Downloadable Media Standards
The Association for Downloadable Media has released a list of members who are in voluntary support of the preliminary standards and guidelines that have been created as a step toward helping companies become more comfortable utilitizing web-delivered programming. ZimmComm New Media is a charter member and on the list! We hope that this will continue to grow a major segment …
More Global Warming Wacko-ism
Let’s see, it seems like last year I heard that the greatest threat to the livestock industry wasn’t input costs, ethanol or market prices but wacko animal rights activists. Yeah. There are a lot of them and they sure seem to have lots of money behind them. The latest, besides the post I did this morning, is from LetsActNow.org. These …
A Texas Moon and Daryl Hannah
Here’s one of the photos from this afternoon’s end of day photo shoot along the river bank near my hotel. I shot a lot of birds too (digital photos) and there’s a couple of them that came out okay. I really didn’t have all my gear here and I was shooting hand held too so it could have gone better. …
Ft. Worth Stock Show & Rodeo
This is rodeo action at its best. It’s the Ft. Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. I got checked in this afternoon in time for the matinee show. If I ever tried this I would wind up being a broken mess of bones. It sure provides a good opportunity to practice shooting photos in extreme conditions though. I got checked in …
Portable Farms Has Laughable Message
This is so wacky that I had to let you know about it. It almost sounds like a neat idea on the surface. But then you realize this guy has bought in to that wacko UN study that said that somehow livestock farts are contributing to global warming. You know I usually post an image but I just don’t think …