An NCGA Welcome to CUTC

Chuck Zimmerman

The CUTC is officially underway now that our keynote session and reception is over. It’s a very quiet media room as yours truly is the only one here. At least the internet access is sort of working. It won’t let me upload to Flickr but I guess that’ll have to wait until later. Post Update: Here’s some photos: CUTC Photo …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, CUTC, NCGA

Welcome to CUTC

Chuck Zimmerman

The fun and games are about to begin here at the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference. The event is being held at the Marriott in downtown Kansas City and I just got in and connected in the media room. In less than an hour we’ll kick things off with a Keynote Speech by USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Tom …

Corn, NCGA

Knowing Novus Now

Chuck Zimmerman

The week Cindy will be attending the World Pork Expo in Des Moines with our coverage sponsored by Novus International. I was in their office last week to meet with Jeremy Lutgen and Scott Fleetwood. I did an interview with Scott, who is their Executive Director of Marketing and Products. In it you’ll learn a lot more about the company. …

Agribusiness, Animal Health, Audio, Novus International, Pork, World Pork Expo, ZimmCast

Missouri Field Work

Chuck Zimmerman

It was a beautiful day to be out on the Katy Trail today and with that great weather comes a lot of field work. Here’s some red and green on the job in the Missouri River bottoms. Around here we’re starting to see corn and even some soybeans above ground but there’s still a lot of fields waiting to be …

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Multi-Track Editing With SoundBooth CS4 Beta

Chuck Zimmerman

For you aspiring audio editors or farm broadcasters out there with a Mac, multi-track editing just got easier. I’ve been using Adobe Soundbooth and wondering why they never made a version of Audition for the Mac. Well they still haven’t but they’ve got a new version of Soundbooth in beta and I just edited tomorrow’s ZimmCast with it. It’s still …

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Wisconsin Farm Technology Days

Chuck Zimmerman

In this day of precision agriculture you can still go old school at a show like the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. Although the 2008 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days taking place in Brown County will showcase the latest technological advances in agriculture, it will also pay tribute to the technology that helped farmers increase their productivity in the early 20th Century. …

Farm Shows

Backing Up and Archiving Pictures, Audio and Video

Chuck Zimmerman

A post by Scott Kelby on Photoshop Insider about his photo and computer back-up strategy made me decide to post one too. I get asked this fairly often and I’ve seen several seminars on the topic. I will mainly address photos but will also mention audio and video too. To get started on a plan to back up your data …

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Erin Malewicki Joins Bader Rutter

Chuck Zimmerman

I’m really glad I’m going through my email. Somehow I missed this when I took my Mac in. Erin Malewicki has joined Bader Rutter & Associates as an assistant account executive in the agency’s Account Management Group. Malewicki comes to the agency from GMR Marketing where she was an account coordinator. She will be working on the firm’s animal health …

Agencies

Pfizer Animal Genetics Selects Charleston|Orwig

Chuck Zimmerman

The agency will be their marketing and communications firm. Charleston|Orwig will assist Pfizer Animal Genetics with introducing and establishing its new brand as the global leader in livestock genomics. Initially, the agency will help develop new public relations and customer advocacy strategies to effectively position Pfizer as a leader in this category. “Our goal in finding a partner to help …

Agencies, Agribusiness, Animal Health

Pioneer Promoting Podcasting

Chuck Zimmerman

Willie Vogt, ZimmComm NAMA iPod touch winner and Farm Futures Editorial Director, has a guest column that just showed up on the Pioneer GrowingPoint website. It’s all about farm podcasting with a title of “Tap Into Information On-Demand, Time to put that computer to work and pull in the information you need automatically. You’re busy, yet you’re finding that the …

Agribusiness, Pioneer, Podcasts, Publication