Here’s Tricia Braid-Terry and former Secretary of Agriculture John Block at last week’s NAFB Convention. We didn’t know it at the time but we were in the presence of greatness. Tricia Braid-Terry of Funks Grove was recently honored by the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) as the winner of its 2007 Excellence in Broadcasting Award. The award was presented at ISA’s …
The Marantz PMD 620 is Now Available
I gave a heads up to all the farm podcasters out there recently about the Marantz PMD 620. It’s now on the market and my order is in. So you can expect to see this bad boy connected to the golden ZimmComm microphone soon. One of the cool things about this unit is the speaker built into it which is …
Managerial Insights With Moe Russell
One of the projects I’ve had an opportunity to play a part in this fall has been a series of video presentations with Moe Russell, Russell Consulting Group. They’re for Farm Industry News and sponsored by Asgrow. It’s called the Business Skills Series. Here we are in our last recording session. In this monthly episode Moe talks about risk management. …
Farm Broadcasting’s Future
Some highlight audio clips are featured in this week’s program. I asked past NAFB President, Pam Fretwell and new NAFB VP, Greg Akagi, what they think is the future of farm broadcasting. I think you’ll hear that both are certain there is a good future. I’m also including the full presentation that Paul McKellips made at one of the NAFB …
Some More NAFB Awards
Last week I covered some of the awards given out at the NAFB Convention. One of the things they do is present tenure awards each 5 years after you become a broadcast council member (used to be called voting members). Besides that they give them out more frequently to really old timers like Derry Brownfield, Brownfield Network here (just joking …
Big Sign Big Equipment at Case IH
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a news release about a new sign but Case IH sent one out. This is one big looking monster of a sign. I guess the size of your sign is an indication of the size of your equipment? The Case IH Benson manufacturing facility is sporting a big, bright new sign these days — …
FAO State of Food and Agriculture
The FAO has released it’s annual State of Food and Agriculture report. This year they’re advocating payments to farmers. The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 explores the potential for agriculture to provide enhanced levels of environmental services alongside the production of food and fibre. The report concludes that demand for environmental services from agriculture – including climate change mitigation, …
New Media Training at NAFB
Cindy took a picture of my NAFB new media training session before leaving on Friday. Here’s session sponsor Jerry Harrington, Pioneer Hi-Bred, speaking along with Andy Vance, Buckeye Ag Network/ABN, session moderator. I think the session went very well and I got a lot of positive feedback. Maybe we can do it again next year and change the focus to …
Get Real With Christmas Tree Videos
The National Christmas Tree Association has launched a new contest for the 2007 holiday season inviting YouTube users to “Get Real This Christmas.” I’m really glad they made a YouTube video to explain the contest! To participate in the contest, YouTube users can create a unique video (three minutes or less) showing or explaining why a Real Tree is the …
Thanksgiving Meal Costs Higher
This came out last week during the NAFB convention but I just couldn’t get to it until now. It has taken a day or two to get unpacked from a couple weeks on the road. I’ve already got part of our Turkey Day meal purchased but I’m not finished yet. This chart is from the release sent out by the …