This is a heads up AgWired fans that I’ll be sort of off the grid for a few days starting tomorrow. Even the agriblogger has to go far afield to recharge his batteries. It’s just that time of year. However, I’ll still be connecting periodically and I couldn’t go somewhere without blogging it. So, posting will be light for a …
Badger NAMA Awards Tree
The Badger NAMA chapter must have won a lot of awards to have this many leaves on their “tree.” The Badger National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Chapter recently donated $500 to the building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison NAMA Awards Tree, a display that recognizes the accomplishments of the student chapter over the past 30 years. “Since its accreditation in 1978, …
Get Your Gala On
If you haven’t made your reservation for this year’s Livestock Publications Council Royal Gala then what are you waiting for? There is still time to confirm your plans for the 5th annual LPC Royal Gala which will be held next Friday, October 31, in Kansas City at the American Royal headquarters. This fundraiser is designed to celebrate and honor this …
Write About a Future In Cotton
Do you have a future in cotton? Want to have one? Then write an essay and enter this Deltapine scholarship program. The future of the U.S. cotton industry continues to rely on new talents and fresh perspectives. To keep bright young minds involved in cotton, Monsanto is creating the Deltapine Class of 09 scholarship program. The program will award nine …
Grain Power For Your Life
I don’t know about you but I like corn in all its various forms, fuel for my body or fuel for my car. Here’s some new research that shows just how healthy the milled food products can be. Someone please get me a bowl of grits! Corn – a Grain For Life. New research just published in the October issue …
AAEA Members Please Take Survey
Hello AAEA members. Your cooperation is requested in taking a short survey. AAEA Members only! Can you help us out? AAEA members Karen Simon, Jim Evans, Owen Roberts in addition to Stephen Banning are conducting a survey of AAEA member attitudes as an update of a published study that was done with AAEA members ten years ago. We hope you …
COSDA-naughts Learning New Media
Thanks to Ted Quanrud, North Dakota, I’ve got a picture from my COSDA blogging class. We went at it hard and heavy for 4 hours and had a great discussion (even though the hotel’s internet access died right when I started). Today we’re going to focus on podcasting and I’ve opened up lots of web pages “just in case.” After …
National FFA Alumni Association Blog
Master agriblogger, Joy Carter, Georgia Peanut Commission, has put her skills to work for the National FFA Alumni Association. She’ll be posting from the convention in Indianapolis this week and is one of the presenters at the National FFA Alumni Workshops. Here’s a few items she wants you to be aware of: Alumni Benefit Auctions – Online Timed Benefit Auction …
Catching Up With Ev Griner
During last week’s Sunbelt Ag Expo the first person I interviewed was Ev Griner. Ev has been in broadcasting since 1948 (60 years)! He’s an icon of the farm broadcasting business in the deep southeast and is still producing daily programming for Southeast AgNet. I’ve known Ev for a lot of years but hadn’t seen him in over 10 years. …
COSDA Blogging Class Underway
Here we are in the COSDA blogging class. I’ll add a picture later but for now I’m just showing how to do a post in WordPress. We’re having a really good discussion and I’m hearing a lot of excellent questions, some of which pertain to a government organization blogging. Post Update: The picture is our group having lunch just now …