While I was in South Dakota the past several days I shot some pheasants in more ways than one. Like this one which I took with a Nikon. It was my first experience with pheasant hunting and it was unbelievable. I was with a great group of experienced guys for one thing. And there were a lot of birds. It …
Posting Alert
Just so you are aware. The agriblogger will be taking a couple of days of R&R starting Friday until Monday so my posting will be “light.” That doesn’t mean there won’t be valuable information right here on AgWired though. Don’t go away.
Rural Lifestyle Info in Ag Census
One of the sources of a lot of information for anyone needing to research the rural lifestyle market is the USDA Census of Agriculture. You might think it’s just about corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle but you’d be wrong. According to Gene Danekas, Director of Ag Statistics, USDA-Missouri, (pictured on the left in his booth at the Country Living Olympics) …
Farm Broadcasters Targeting Rural Lifestyle
In just a few short weeks it’ll be time for the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Convention. I’ll be blogging the whole event so hopefully you’ll be looking forward to that. NAFB’s Executive Director, Bill O’Neill (pictured on the right) attended the Country Living Outlook Conference. I spoke to him about what he was getting out of it. Bill says …
2007 World Championship Appaloosa Show
I don’t know where you’re spending your Halloween but I’ll be at the 2007 World Championship Appaloosa Show in Ft. Worth, Texas. I hope they’ve got candy. This year’s show has some interesting features like a Chocolatey Challenge ATV Giveaway and a free screenings of the award winning short film , “Trail End,” starring Emmy-nominated actor Barry Corbin. So to …
Driving Away the Competition
If you’ve ever been down in a hollow on a mid summer day pounding posts then you might wonder why anyone would want to do this for fun. However, at the Country Living Olympics is was cool inside the American Royal building where the Steel Post Driving competition took place. You can see that we were planting a post garden …
Counrty Living Cheerleader
Teresa Hinrichs is a country living cheerleader (pictured on the right). She even says so in an interview I did with her right before the Country Living Olympics. Teresa works on a lot of projects related to agriculture one of which is the Country Living Association. She says that just about any group of people who have some kind of …
Center For Food Integrity Summit
The Center for Food Integrity is about to kick off it’s 2007 Summit in Indianapolis. The theme is “STATE OF CONSUMER TRUST AND THE FOOD SYSTEM.” It’ll be at the Hilton tomorrow. You can find the agenda here. It looks like a lot of people will be there talking on subjects including: Consumer Trust in the Safety and Security of …
A Country Living Way of Life
If you want to know what people who live the country life think then just ask them. That’s what we did at the Country Living Outlook Conference. I can assure you that these folks are passionate about where they live. Take Alan Brend who was on the panel of rural lifestyle practitioners. He says that he does not view how …
Let’s Move That Feed
If you’ve ever had to move a pallet of feed then you have an idea of what it was like to compete in the Country Living Olympics Feed Bag Moving competition. Imagine having to run with them for a short distance and stack them on another pallet. That’s why we had some worn out competitors. 10 bags and a short …