At the Commodity Classic Cindy and I couldn’t make it to all the booths that we wanted to so we enlisted the help of Stewart Doan. Stewart did several interviews for us including this one with Dave Redmond, National Sales Manager for Stoller USA. We wanted to find out what was new with this company. Dave tells Stewart that Stoller …
AG Day Essay Contest Winner
The winner of the 2008 Ag Day Essay Contest coordinated by the Agriculture Council of America is Katlin Wiest. ACA called upon seventh- to 12th-grade students nationwide to submit original essays of 450 words about the importance of agriculture in the United States. Under the theme “Agriculture – Bigger Than You Think,” students were encouraged to focus their essays on …
AAEA Webinar on Editorial Blogs – Benefit to Publications
Just in case you’ve been putting it off there’s still time to get registered for tomorrow’s AAEA webinar on blogging. You don’t have to wait for the Agricultural Media Summit to boost your knowledge. The Member Services Committee is offering a one-hour Webinar on editorial blogs – benefit to publications, how to make them valuable to readers, and the ins …
AgWired Survey Contest Winner
I can’t believe all you people who entered our AgWired Survey Contest haven’t been beating me up for not announcing the winner yet. The survey closed on time but with the travel schedule it took a while to get it taken care of (including the ones we ran on our Domestic Fuel and World Dairy Diary sites). But we have …
Catch An AgBuzz
What do Bret Oelke, George Rehm, Jochum Wiersma and Mark Whitney have in common? They all blog for AgBuzz.com. It’s published by Minnesota Farm Guide in conjunction with the University of Minnesota. The purpose of AgBuzz is to gain interaction between producers and extension service staff. The benefits of AgBuzz are to everyone, bloggers, readers, and extension services. Comments are …
A Binding Way to Find Ag Media
There’s going to be a new publication in the ag communications world coming soon from AGRIpr. It’s going to be the FINDERBINDER Agricultural Media Directory. This morning I had a nice chat with owner Cory Cart. You can listen to our conversation and learn all about it. Cory is a native of Binger, Okla., and is the marketing and public …
Another Magazine Goes Mobile
In another showing of how mobile information is getting you can now get your AgriMarketing Magazine daily update via mobile phone. It’s interesting to see how traditional magazine companies are finding ways to distribute their content in ways other than the printed page. AgriMarketing Magazine is also distributing each issue in online digital form. We could really see this coming …
Commodity Update Hires Beth Winters
Commodity Update has hired Beth Winters as Direct of Sales – Middle Market Segment. Sounds like things are good in the markets to your mobile phone business. Beth brings extensive experience in the agribusiness industry with her to Commodity Update. A native of South Carolina, Beth began her career in Charleston in 2002 as an Account Executive for QuickFarm, where …
James Dean Memorial
I’ve got a number of things to post here on AgWired but I think that too many time zones, time changes and meetings are catching up to me this weekend. So here’s all you get today. Actually a lot got done here on the home front including some office catch up work. This post is ag related in that I …
Hondo Group Team Grows
The Hondo Group has added two people to their team, Traffic Manager Van Artiaga and Public Relations Director René Smith. As traffic manager, Artiaga will be responsible for project management and maintaining the flow of jobs for all clients. As public relations director, Smith will be responsible for raising the level of awareness of their clients and The Hondo Group. …