What is your company doing to promote or celebrate National Ag Week and National Ag Day? Are you having a party? Running a special promotion? Send me your pictures, images and audio files or links to them, including video and I’ll do my best to feature it here on AgWired over the coming week or so. Here’s something Successful Farming …
Pam Fretwell Joins Conklin Company
I guess there’s an opportunity for a farm broadcaster at WTAD in Quincy, IL. Pam Fretwell, Past President of the NAFB is going to work for the Conklin Company as the corporate spokesperson for its agriculture division. She’s pictured here at last year’s NAFB convention. Ms. Fretwell will lead public relations and media development training. Given her love for farm …
Closing Out 25x’25 Renewable Energy Summit
Hello from Nebraska. I’ve been attending some of the 25x’25 Renewable Energy Summit and about to head over the the Nebraska Ethanol Board’s “Ethanol 2008:Emerging Issues Forum.” In between I’ve had some meetings here as well. You can find more information on what’s going on over on our Domestic Fuel site. However, I thought you might enjoy this since some …
Get Ready For National Ag Day
We’re just over a week away from National Ag Day. Here’s a few faq’s you can use when talking to your urban friends about it. These come from the Ag Day website. What Is Ag Day? It’s a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless other …
Trimble Makes Precision Ag EZ
There was certainly a lot of precision agriculture equipment and software on display at this year’s Commodity Classic as well as at the National Farm Machinery Show. Here’s Matt Hesse, Auto Pilot Segment Manager for Trimble at Classic. We asked Stewart Doan to find out what’s new from Trimble in ’08. Matt says they’ve got a number of new products …
Win An IFAJ Star
The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists now has entries open for their annual Star Prize for Agricultural Photography. There are some new categories this year including: best portrait, best landscape or nature photo and best production photo. Entries close May 1. The contest is sponsored by DeLaval and you can find out more on the IFAJ website or by contacting …
Hushon Joins Filament Marketing
Josh Hushon has joined Filament Marketing as a marketing executive. He’ll be working on strategic marketing plan implementation. Hushon most recently spent four and a half years at Hoard’s Dairyman as associate editor. In this role, he coordinated coverage of manure handling, environmental regulations, cow comfort, buildings and equipment, animal welfare and content for the Young Dairymen page. He also …
New Viewer Software From AutoFarm
Another company I just didn’t have time to visit with at Commodity Classic is AutoFarm. They’ve got some new products out including software that displays data on precision displays. This is a screen shot of what it looks like. AutoFarm® announces the upcoming release of AF-Viewer™ II software. Developed by Farm Works Software exclusively for AutoFarm, AF-Viewer II will offer …
Agriblogging With AAEA
Hello from ZimmComm World Headquarters in Holts Summit, MO. Right now I’m conducting a webinar along with John Phipps, John’s World, for the American Agricultural Editors Association. Thanks to Linda Smith, Top Producer, for putting these professional development webinars together. This is just one in a series that the organization is conducting this year. We’re talking about blogging and how …
Still More Than a Number at Wyffels Hybrids
Continuing the theme of their customers being “more than a number” Wyffels Hybrids was on display at Commodity Classic. With the help of Stewart Doan we got an interview with Kim Jones. Kim says that the company is unique and independent offering a full range of traits in their hybrids, proprietary genetics packages and personal service. She says that because …