You can’t be at a horse show and not see a lot of boots. Some are more noticeable than others. So it’s time once again for an AgWired edition of “Guess Whose Boots.” Just use the comment feature and submit your guess and the first person who gets it right will win an Agwired t-shirt. There are clues if you’ve …
Appaloosa Calf Roping
One thing I don’t think you’ll ever find me doing is calf roping. I may as well jump off a building as a horse after roping a calf. That is, if I could even swing the rope and ride at the same time. These guys make it look like a piece of cake though. It’s still relatively early here in …
Meeting Callaway
I don’t mean the golf company. Maybe you don’t know Callaway yet but I do. She’s a very young singing star and will be performing tonight at the National Appaloosa Show. She’s on the left in case you didn’t figure that out. I’ll let you figure out who’s on the right. Callaway will be performing a benefit concert for the …
These Girls Are Cowboys
The Riata Ranch Cowboy Girls are performing at the National Appaloosa Show for two nights. According to Executive Director, Jennifer Nicholson, they’ll be doing their choreographed lasso dance and acrobatic trick riding. This morning I got to talk with them so in the interview you can hear from each of the girls here, ages 9 to 17, with Jennifer in …
Appaloosa On The Move
This week’s ZimmCast is a little late I know but I wanted to wait until I got to Jackson, MS and the National Appaloosa Show so we could learn about how they’ve handled a major move to a new city with a show that’s been held in another location for a long time. So this week you can hear Appaloosa …
The IAALD
I thought I knew about all the ag communications organizations out there but this is a new one on me. It’s the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists. And they have a blog. Yes, I’m going to join. Our vision is to be the leading global community of practice for information specialists serving agriculture. Our mission is to enable our …
Valley Tracker Mobile
Okay, so you can get your markets, make phone calls, take video and pictures, email, text, browse the web, edit documents, listen to music and podcasts and now you can control your irrigation equipment. All from your phone. With the introduction of Valley Tracker Mobile, irrigators now have access to the latest technology for remote management of their pivots and …
Enjoying The San Fran Bay Sights
So another conference is over and tomorrow I’ll be moving on to Jackson, MS for the Appaloosa Horse Club National Show. This will be the first time it’s being held there and from what I’ve heard already, things are going well. It’s going to be culture shock going from Berkeley Marina to the hot southeast but I can handle it. …
Farm Foundation Conference Wrap
Here’s my wrap up post from the Farm Foundation Transition To A Bio Economy conference. I learned a lot from the presentations here and hope the interviews have helped you too. I spoke with board member, Cornelius Gallagher, who helped summarize the event. He says the conference brought together world class leaders who were able to listen to some fantastic …
Research Needed For Ethanol Company Success
What we know and what we need to know was Peggy Caswell’s, USDA-ERS, topic here at the Farm Foundation Transition To A Bio Economy conference. She says we need to know things about how farmers or the providers of biofuels and feed stocks are going to have to change the way they do business. She used the example of having …