That’s the title on a new joint website of the Federal Communications Commission and USDA Rural Development. Pretty soon we won’t see any disparity in rural vs. urban broadband accessibility. “Broadband technology is a key driver of economic growth. The ability to share increasing amounts of information, at greater and greater speeds, increases productivity, facilitates interstate commerce, and helps drive …
Feeder Handles Your Feeds
I know some of you are farm podcasting or thinking about it. Here’s a handy looking little program that you might find helpful. I’m currently doing a trial with Feeder by Reinvented Software and it looks promising. I’ve tried several of these over the years (can’t believe I’ve been doing this for years now) and never been happy with the …
AgWired Survey 2008 Contest Giveaway
I know I’ve mentioned this before but it’s your weekly reminder to take the very short AgWired Survey. We did this a couple years ago and just need to update our records which will really help us out when it comes to working with new sponsors and supporters. So, if you haven’t done it yet then go ahead and Git …
National Farm Machinery Show Media Room
The National Farm Machinery Show now has an official media room. Great news for those of us who will be there this week. Last year was my first year and not having a media room made it a challenge. An official National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) media room designated to serve members of the working press at the NFMS and …
Starting and Running Your Own Small Farm Business
Freelance writer Sarah Aubrey has just published a new book for anyone who wants to start their own small farm business. Good morning! Just wanted to email and let you know that my new book, Starting and Running Your Own Small Farm Business, (Storey Publishing, LLC) is now available. To order a single copy at $19.95 (plus shipping and state …
Angus Productions Getting MultiMedia
I don’t know about you but I’ve wondered just what Angus Productions, Inc. does. When I got into the media room at the Cattle Industry Convention early last week I saw these little cards promoting www.4cattlemen.com and they said it’s producted by API. That raised even more questions in my mind after visiting the site. So to learn more I …
Try to Guess Whose Boots These Are
Okay. Maybe this is too hard. So, I guess I can provide some clues. Such as, “she” works in farm broadcasting. So here’s how it works. The first person to correctly identify Whose Boots these are and post it in a comment here will win a ZimmComm Logo speaker for their iPod. Post Update: The guesses are good but not …
New CBB Chairman Dave Bateman
The Cattle Industry Convention is about over. I’ve got some posts to do still but you can also find a lot of additional interviews over on the Checkoff website – Beef Board Meeting.com. This morning the CBB welcomed a new chairman – Dave Bateman. Here’s Dave, hard at work at today’s annual meeting. After the meeting I did a short …
Honoring Paul Hitch
The beef industry honored Paul Hitch today at the general session. His family joined him on stage and he was presented with a plaque and accolades for all the work he’s done on behalf of the industry over the years. Paul’s a producer from Oklahoma. Paul was to be the next President of NCBA until illness struck which has prevented …
Peter Shinn Questions The Secretary
The press got to meet with our new Ag Secretary, Ed Schafer, after his speech today. Just so you can see what that’s like I shot a short video clip of a question asked by Brownfield’s Peter Shinn. He asks the secretary under what circumstances would he release some acres from CRP? 2008 Cattle Industry Convention Photo Album