Cindy pointed me to a story on the Financial Post Blog about the big tomato scare. It’s too good not to bring to your attention. Here’s how Financial Post editor, Terence Corcoran, describes how the whole mess got started. It begins with a food poisoning, gets picked up by brain-dead media, story flies out of control for 48 hours, regulators …
Jimmie Van Zant Riding a Blue Boomer
One of the celebrities competing in the Michael Peterson/New Holland Celebrity Tractor race was Jimmie Van Zant, pictured on the left with Michael. Jimmie is a cousin to Johnny, Ronnie and Donnie Van Zant, deceased members of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. He’s been making quite a career on his own. He thinks the tractor race is an excellent opportunity for …
Corn Farmers Concerned about Google/Yahoo Advertising
Cindy found an interesting story on Cnet, titled, “Corn farmers take anti-Google fight to Washington.” It’s about a letter from the American Corn Growers and some other ag groups to Congress, urging them to look into a proposed advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo. It’s kind of a complicated story to explain easily so I encourage you to read the …
Sacia and Duwe Join Filament Marketing
Filament Marketing has added a couple of new people to their staff. Filament Marketing, LLC has announced the hiring of Buffy Sacia as an associate marketing executive. In this role, she will coordinate marketing projects and conduct public relation activities in order to carry out strategic marketing plans for many of the company’s clients. Sacia has worked as an intern …
Social Media Explained
Although many of you are “getting it” when it comes to this whole new social media thing, which includes new media, there are so many who don’t. Well, maybe this video will help you understand. Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. Thanks to Sundog for bringing it to our collective attention.
Ag Leader Technology Precision Scholarships
Precision agriculture training at Iowa State University just got a boost. Today, Ag Leader Technology announced their commitment to support students interested in precision agriculture by establishing the Ag Leader Technology Precision Agriculture Scholarship within the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State University. Five Ag Leader scholarships will be awarded annually starting in the 2008/2009 school …
Food Before Fuel?
As if we didn’t have enough confusion about the whole food and fuel issue, now we’ve got a new “coalition” with an agenda and a website. There’s a built in blog with no posts too. I really recommend posting on your blog if you want anyone to visit it and if you want any credibility. This one is called Food …
Are You Sending AgWired Your News?
I thought I’ve been pretty clear about the fact that you can send me your company/organizational news and announcements for possible posting here on AgWired but I’m finding that some companies are not doing so or forget to include us at times. So I guess all I can do is remind you again. If you want your customers to know …
Curt Lancaster Has New Texas Farm Bureau Duties
I just got off the phone with Curt Lancaster, Texas Farm Bureau Network. He’s got some new responsibilities. This Texas radio veteran has now added marketing for TFB Publications and the TFB Voice of Texas Agriculture Website to his duties at Texas Farm Bureau. As of June 1st Lancaster is the Director of Advertising Sales & Marketing for Texas Farm …
Mobile Computicating Upgrade
I’m not sure if mobile computicating is a term but the phones of today are computers that let us communicate on the go and today the iPhone took a step forward. I got back from Nashville in time to follow along with Tom Kravitz on One More Thing as he wrote about the stage show at the Apple WWDC. I …