It’s time to look forward to World Dairy Expo. This year’s theme is “Building Bridges – Making Connections.” I’ll be on location again this year starting mid week posting mostly on World Dairy Diary. It looks like we’re in for a cool down in the midwest so I’m going to remember to bring a jacket. Nothing like getting to a …
Stephanie Gable Joins Novus International
Past NAMA President, Stephanie Gable, has a new job. She’s now working for Novus International as Ruminant Marketing Manager. That means she’ll be responsible for developing global marketing plans for Novus’s dairy and beef programs and products. Stephanie is pictured participating in a NAMA Executive Committee Meeting last year. Ms. Gable joins Novus from Fort Dodge Animal Health in Kansas …
Small Company Formed
You’ve know Sylvia Small as the VP, Communications for the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association and the International Poultry Expo. Well she has formed Sylvia Small Communications & Marketing. She will provide a full range of communications and marketing services to companies, organizations and associations. For larger clients and projects, she will partner with other senior level professionals to provide …
Two Rivers Marketing Acquired By Woodward Communications
Two Rivers Marketing has been acquired by multi-media company, Woodward Communications. That’s very interesting. We’re certainly living in a different world today when it comes to media and marketing. Woodward Communications, Inc. (WCI), a Dubuque-based employee-owned multimedia company operating in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, has acquired Two Rivers Marketing, a well-known Des Moines marketing firm specializing in business-to-business communications. In …
Terry Stokes Resigns From NCBA
I just learned that Terry Stokes has announced his resignation as CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Here’s a picture of him from the Cattle Industry Convention earlier this year. I’m sure a lot of people are going to be missing him. Stokes said representing cattlemen and championing their cause has been the greatest honor and the most fulfilling …
AAEC Launches National Media Campaign
Wow. Just when you thought we couldn’t possibly have any more new organizations working on the whole food and fuel thing, here comes another one. It’s the American Ag and Energy Council and they’re starting a new national media campaign using radio. I’m glad it’s available on their website too. Now if we could just get all these groups to …
NAMA Webinar on Social Networking
Social networking? What’s that? Find out with the next NAMA Webinar is coming up very soon. The Confluence of Social Networking and Mobile Marketing: The Value Proposition for Agribusiness Join John Gilbert with Bader Rutter for NAMA’s second webinar on Thursday, October 9 at 1:00 p.m. (CENTRAL TIME). Cost for the webinar is only $35. Social networking refers to a …
Gary Schulz Raisin The Bar
Cindy is getting on my case for being late with my ZimmCast again this week. Well I was holding off because I wanted to get in touch with someone special for my interview. That someone is Gary Schulz, Executive Vice President, California Raisin Administrative Committee and California Raisin Marketing Board. He just started his new job about 3 weeks ago …
Aquafinca Farms Fish in Honduras
I just received this story from Laura who visited Honduras recently and is back there now. Her trip was made possible by the Honduras Foundation for Investment and Export Development. Here’s a novel idea when running a business that manages more than a thousand employees: “We try to do basically everything to make them feel they are like partners not …
Ag Job Network Launches Friday
It looks like the Ag Job Network social networking site is about to launch according to their latest Twitter feed. Today is including a lot of preparation for tomorrow’s initial screening of the AgJobNetwork. Its going to be fun. Here’s The Story: AgJobNetwork started as a facebook group in August of 2008 as a way to help connect people with …