I don’t know about you but a tour of the Budweiser Brewery in St. Louis, MO is a good thing. That’s what the Gateway NAMA and St. Louis Ag Club will be doing tomorrow April 15th after our lunch program. They’re going to be talking about “Quality Products Start With Quality Ingredients.” There will be product sampling which may have …
Brownfield Howling At The Moon
Okay NAMA fans. There’s lots of places/reasons to party hardy in Kansas City next week. For example Brownfield will be Takin’ Care of Business at Howl At The Moon. As some I know who have been to AMS have said, “What’s happens at Howl At The Moon, stays at Howl At The Moon.” Brownfield will be taking the lucky invitees …
Play i Got It! With Farm Progress
Speaking of NAMA invites. You’ll be able to play i Got It! with Farm Progress Companies. Can you tell the NAMA Convention is getting close? i Got It! is a “popular, fast-paced Q&A game punctuated with ag history and facts.” You need to visit them at their booth (200and 202). You have to play to win and they’re having a …
The Colle+McVoy PheNAMAnon
NAMA invites are coming in. This one’s from Colle+McVoy promoting their 6th Annual Agri-Rock Fest called Phenamanon. There’s a game involved along with some animal sounds and some rock and roll of course. I’ve got the t-shirt, tats and ear ring and have put it on the calendar. Want your NAMA event promoted here on AgWired? You know who to …
PR Open Mic For You PR Practitioners and Students
Since a lot of you AgWired fans are involved in public relations I thought you’d want to know about PROpenMic. It’s a social networking site started by Robert French, one of the people who inspired me to move forward in this whole new media world. He used Ning to create the site. Ning? What’s Ning you may ask. Ning is …
Osborn & Barr Re-locating Headquarters
I thought that Osborn & Barr had some pretty nice digs in Clayton, MO but from the sound of it they’re going to get even nicer. Of course there is that downtown traffic to contend with but then it wasn’t great out in the Clayton area either at times. Last week they announced that the agency will be re-locating its …
NAMA Virtual Trade Show
The NAMA Virtual Trade Show is up for your viewing pleasure. ZimmComm will once again be exhibiting and you can find us at booth #219. Just come in the trade show entrance, go straight to the back and we’re on the right. Easy. We’ll be having a drawing for those of you who are attending and also for those of …
Rock and Roll Buffalo
You know when I saw a video clip for the Rock and Roll Buffalo I absolutely wasn’t thinking MachineryLink. That’s because I didn’t remember taking some pics of the ML wrapped JD combine at Commodity Classic. But I did and it’s on the Smarter Harvest Tour. Well it looks like MachineryLink has done good in the raise funds department. MachineryLink, …
Light Posting This Weekend
I’ll be out of touch for the next several days going on my annual retreat. Just thought I’d let you know. Posting will be pretty light. I think everyone needs a couple of days to get away from email, texts, etc. Yeah, right. But that’s what I’m going to be doing. I’ll be back on Sunday afternoon. Until then . …
NAFB Will Be Watching Washington
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting is holding its annual Washington Watch program at the end of April and for the first time in a few years I’ll be attending. On this week’s program we’ll learn about it from program chair Lindsay Hill, BARN. I know I’m a little late this week but maybe I can get back on my …