These farm broadcast babes will be attending the Farm Progress Show once again this year. This is a picture from early in last year’s show. They’ve both got news to tell though and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to talk to them about it next week. Tricia Braid Terry (left), RFD Radio Network, will let you in on a very …
How A Farmer Uses Media
At this year’s NAMA Boot Camp, attendees got to hear from a panel of producers. One of them was Hal Swaney, Platte City, MO. Hal has a very diversified family farm with corn, soybeans, cattle and burley tobacco. I asked him what his primary sources of information are for making buying decisions. He says that he’s very “local” minded. He …
Media Preview Farm Progress Show
I could not attend yesterday’s media luncheon at the Farm Progress Show so I had to solicit a couple of pictures. Thanks to professional photographer and all around media tent good guy, Gene Hemphill, New Holland, for sending these along. In this first one you can see Don Tourte, Farm Progress Companies, cutting the ribbon. He’s joined by a number …
Kristy Mussman is Princess Kay of the Milky Way
Here’s the new Princess Kay of the Milky Way. She’s Kristy Mussman, a 19-year-old college student from Claremont, MN. Her crowning took place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on Wednesday. As Princess Kay, Mussman, who represents Steele County, will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for Minnesota’s nearly 5,000 dairy farmers. Kristy is the daughter of Mike and Julie Mussman …
Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour Concludes
The Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour is concluding today. One of the sponsors is Pioneer Hi-Bred. Pioneer agronomist, Will Smart, has been on the Eastern leg of the tour and filed this report on Tuesday near Bloomington, IL. Corn observations include: * Early to late planted corn which started in mid-April and finished in mid-June. * Kernel abortion is evident …
Food Journalists Preparing to Meet in Houston
The Association of Food Journalists is getting ready to hold its annual meeting in Houston on October 15-18. They’ll be overlapping a day with the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors. Anyone know how many journalist associations there are? The Association of Food Journalists, Inc., is a networking system especially created for journalists who devote most of their working …
Gold Medal Corn Flakes
I first saw this on Fox News while working out this afternoon. Apparently 8 Gold Olympics Medals winner Michael Phelps is forgoing the Wheaties box cover for Corn Flakes. Now that’s interesting. He’s also going to be on the cover of Frosted Corn Flakes and that, according to Fox, has “outraged” some nutritionists. If so, there’s not much on the …
Elaine Shein New Associate Managing Editor for DTN
Congratulations to Elaine Shein for her new position with DTN. Shein will be responsible for editing DTN feature articles and series as well as providing oversight on special projects. Shein will bring additional depth and leadership to DTN’s leading news and market coverage. Prior to joining DTN, Shein spent two decades covering agriculture in the United States and Canada. Most …
Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar Slideshow
I’ve been learning new things about Flickr today. For example, they now supply an embed code for a slideshow of a set. Let’s take this one from the Boehringer Ingelheim Swine Health Seminar. Now this is cool!
Barry Engle has Local New Holland Roots
I just thought I’d share an example of the AgWired search engine magnificence. I did a post late yesterday about Barry Engle being named as the new head of New Holland Ag. A few minutes ago I did a Google key word search for Barry Engle, New Holland and that post is second below a Bloomberg link. My Twitter post …