Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

This time from NewCentury Marketing Services, Inc. Season’s Greetings Wishing you… every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. Thank you for being our customer. We look forward to continuing our relationship in the coming year. Holiday Hours Our Office will be closed Thursday December 25th, 2008 and Friday December 26th, 2008. Thursday January 1st, 2009 and …

Agribusiness

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

Hey photographers. Have you got a holiday card to share? Lisa Perrin, Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association does. The photo in the card (cover) is hers. The hats were added afterward. She “Herd It Was Christmas Time.” Merry Christmas Lisa.

Ag Groups

Blue Ribbon Cookbook Wins Prize

Chuck Zimmerman

Liz Harfull, IFAJ e-news editor and author of The Blue Ribbon Cookbook is pretty excited. A best-selling book about South Australian country show cooks and their prizewinning recipes will represent Australia in the 2008 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Adelaide Hills author Liz Harfull has been selected from a record number of entries to be named …

Media

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

The Happy Holidays just keep coming. I’m trying to space them out but this is proving to be a popular post. This time we’ve got a Warm Fuzzy from the Ervin Group. You sensitive types may want to know that it’s faux fur. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at Ervin Group in Omaha! Thanks Ken. Same back at …

Agencies

More Media Fragmentation and Diminished Importance of Reach

Chuck Zimmerman

Loyal AgWired fans will know that I am a big fan of Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion. He’s one of the new media guru’s who helped form my initial thinking about the online world and the direction it was going at the time we started ZimmComm New Media. He posted a great outlook for where media is going yesterday which is …

Media

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

Happy holiday this time comes from the Livestock Publications Council. To all of our LPC friends and associates, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to a brilliant 2009. Diane Johnson Livestock Publications Council I’ve been asked if I’m going to put all these in a Flickr set. Hmm. No probably not. …

LPC

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

It’s Happy Holidays time again. This time from the Beef Promotion and Research Board, officers and staff. They wish everyone an abundance of the good things in life. I think that means a nice steak or perhaps a roast beef dinner don’t you?

Ag Groups, Beef

Obama Announces Vilsack and Salazar

Chuck Zimmerman

Thanks to AP we can see President-Elect Obama’s announcement of Tom Vilsack for Ag Secretary and Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary. I have to ask the question, “Why does every ag group out there feel compelled to send out news releases with their thoughts on the matter?” They all say the same thing (exicted about . . . looking forward …

USDA, Video

NAFB 2009 Membership Directory

Chuck Zimmerman

One way you can show your support of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting is with an ad in their annual membership directory. The annual NAFB Directory is in development with a projected mailing date of early March. Advertising space is available for Allied Industry Council members at a cost of $1,500 for a full page color ad placed within …

NAFB

WCCA 2009 World Congress of Computers in Ag

Chuck Zimmerman

This sounds like an ag geeks dream conference. Might I be going? We’ll see. This is the 7th World Congress of Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources. It will be held in Reno, Nevada. from June 22nd through the 24th 2009. The congress will be held at the Grand Sierra Resort concurrently with the ASABE International Conference.. WCCA is a …

Ag Groups