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 …
A Revolutionary Cotton Picker
John Deere says that their new 7760 Cotton Picker will revolutionize harvesting the crop. This machine was on display in action at last week’s Sunbelt Ag Expo. Southeast AgNet’s Randall Weiseman was on hand to obtain interviews for me. He spoke with Jamie Flood, Deere’s Cotton Marketing Manager, who worked with the 7760 development in Iowa. You can listen to …
Train Employees to Service The Rural Lifestyle Market
At the Country Living Outlook Conference one of the speakers on our program was country lifestyler, Kelly Loganbill. Kelly works in town and makes an 80 plus mile round trip each day from her home. She wants companies servicing the rural lifestyle market to know that they separate their work and personal lives and that they need information and supplies …
Corn Guy to the Rescue
Will Corn Guy.tv say the day for corn growers everywhere? Who is Corn Guy? You’ll have to watch the series to find out. It’s all part of a new program being conducted by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest’s Minnesota E85 Team. America, meet a new superhero: Corn Guy, now seen on his own website: www.cornguy.tv. The Minnesota …
You Can’t iTouch This
I’ll add a picture to this post later. Right now I’m at one of my favorite coffee shops using my new iTouch. It’s more than a new iPod. It’s a computer. Typing on the touchscreen takes a little getting used to but with free wi-fi I’m surfing baby! The new iTouch synced right up with my iTunes and the coolest …
Agrimarketing Magazine Goes Digital
Reaching people who live the country life has been the subject of several articles in Agrimarketing Magazine. That’s why Lynn Henderson, Publisher, was on hand at the Country Living Outlook Conference. Lynn says that the rural lifestyle market presents a significant opportunity for traditional agribusiness companies. Besides talking about country living we also talked about Agrimarketing Magazine going digital. I …