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 …
All American Beef Battalion
Here’s something you can sink your teeth into. Supplying steaks to our troops is just one thing we can do to thank them. The All American Beef Battalion is a group of individuals within the United States beef cattle industry dedicated to support the troops fighting the global war on terror. They work to organize and sponsor steak feeds, entertainment, …
Dairy Impacts Wisconsin
I really like this graphic from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. When I saw it today it made me think of next week’s World Dairy Expo. I’ll be there starting on Wednesday morning. Wisconsin Dairy Impact.com is a new resource for media types like yours truly. You can find lots of graphics like this one and almost 3,000 images. As …
Helping The Chorti Maya
You may remember that Laura McNamara went to Honduras this summer and met with the Chorti Maya and a man who is working to help them increase their agricultural production, Billy Collins. There is a group of indigenous people in Honduras that live off an average of $300 a year… less than one dollar a day. At least two months …
Technorati Releasing Annual State of Blogosphere
Technorati, the blog indexing authority, is releasing its annual “State of the Blogosphere” in 5 installments. The first one is out and it’s got lots of interesting information, focusing on who is blogging. Bloggers Self-Identified as Personal, Professional, or Corporate Bloggers are not a homogenous group. One way of segmenting bloggers is by their blog type: * Personal: blog about …
Urban Farmer Receives MacArthur Fellow Award
An “urban farmer” has received one of the MacArthur Fellows awards. The MacArthur Foundation today named 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2008. This past week, the recipients learned in a single phone call from the Foundation that they will each receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years. The new Fellows work across a broad spectrum …