One of our distinguished guests at today’s Sunbelt Ag Expo Southeast Farmer of the Year luncheon was Mark E. Keenum, USDA Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service. If you’re interested in hearing about the economics of what’s going on in agriculture then you may want to listen to him. His full comments are only about 12 minutes. However, I’m …
Everything Propane at Sunbelt Ag Expo
The Georgia Propane Gas Association has a very large building here at Sunbelt Ag Expo to display all the latest propane powered appliances and equipment. The gas fireplaces are very popular and they’ve even set up multiple rooms to provide ideas for how you can use them in your farm house. I went on a tour of their building today …
Brian Kirksey is Southeast Farmer of the Year
The big news of the day here at Sunbelt Ag Expo is the announcement of the Southeast Farmer of the Year. After a number of speeches and suspense it was announced that Brian Kirksey, Arkansas, was chosen as this year’s winner. He receives a check for $14,000 and is seen here on stage with his wife, Nan. Brian got to …
Sunbelt Ag Expo
Hello from Sunbelt Ag Expo and the media center. I’m on location at least today and tomorrow. It’s early and I’m just getting my bearings. We’ve got a Toyota-sponsored media breakfast in a few minutes and lunch today will include the announcing of the Southeast Farmer of the Year award. It’s been a few years since I’ve been to this …
Alpharma Student Video Contest
Alpharma is conducting a student video contest to help educate consumers about food and farming, especially animal agriculture. So, get out your FLIP’s, phones or whatever you shoot video with and get entered! In an innovative step toward consumer education, agriculture students from the East Coast to California are invited to participate in a three-phase contest, the first of which …
Advice On Reaching The Ruralpolitans
In this week’s ZimmCast you’ll hear the viewpoints of two industry leading experts on the rural lifestyle market. It seems like this is all anyone wants to talk about in the agrimarketing world these days. Keep your eye on AgWired if you’d like to learn more about it. The Marketing Director for John Deere Commercial and Consumer Equipment is Dennis …
Year of the Utility Tractor
We’ve heard from John Deere that this is the “Year of the Utility Tractor.” That means they’re showing their commitment to the rural lifestyle market. In this week’s ZimmCast I’ll have some very interesting interviews about how John Deere is targeting this market. Before I left the Drive Green media event I spoke with Barry Nelson, Public Relations Manager. He …
Drive Green Utility Tractor Road Show
Shortly after the first of the year this mammoth John Deere truck will hit the road visiting select dealers from Texas to Georgia with the Drive Green Utility Tractor Road Show. I’ll be joining the tour and The dealers we’ll be visiting will be offering the new utility tractors to their customers and customers will have a chance to ride …
Pfizer and Martin Williams Win CEBA
Pfizer Animal Health and agency, Martin Williams, did very well in ABM’s CEBA awards. American Business Media recently awarded its 13th annual Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) Awards. Pfizer Animal Health and agency Martin Williams took top honors for “Chicken Soup,” a print ad promoting the leading cattle anti-infective brand DRAXXIN® (tulathromycin) Injectable Solution. The CEBA awards were founded …
John Deere Lawn and Garden
In the area of commercial and consumer equipment is a whole line of new John Deere equipment to tackle your lawn and garden. At our Drive Green media event Gregg Weekes gave us the lowdown on the new yard tractors. For example he says the X360 line now has power steering and power lift. In the X700 Series you can …