Carbonate Your Strawberries

Chuck Zimmerman

This sounds like a very tasty treat. Carbonated strawberries you can make yourself. I love strawberries, always have. I remember my Mom telling me that when we’d go to the U-pick field near where I grew up in central Florida I’d always eat more than I picked. I think she exaggerated. Thanks to the California Strawberry Commission for this idea. …

Ag Groups, Food

Facelift For World Dairy Diary

Chuck Zimmerman

The last ZimmComm site to get a facelift this year is our World Dairy Diary. The new theme is now live and there are a few more tweaks that we’ve got to do but I think it’s ready for prime time. I have been very pleased with how we’ve seen the traffic grow on this site. With the type of …

Dairy

Boot Up Your Agri-Marketing Knowledge

Chuck Zimmerman

It’s hard to believe it’s time to look forward to another NAMA Boot Camp. But you can now register online if you’re interested in attending. Post Update: ZimmComm New Media is now a sponsor of this year’s NAMA Boot Camp. We’re sponsoring the closing session on Thursday at 10 am on “Ethanol – Today and Tomorrow” presented by Robert White, …

NAMA

Rural and Farm Blogs

Chuck Zimmerman

While I was doing a little online research for one of our clients I came across quite a few blogs I wasn’t aware of. Actually I did know about this one but not that the Center for Rural Affairs had moved their’s. On their site you can find links to other rural blogs. The first one I actually landed on …

Farming

Codex Alimentarius Commission Meeting

Chuck Zimmerman

I had to post this just because I like saying, “Codex Alimentarius.” Of course saying it and understanding it are two different things. If you really want to understand it then get yourself to Rome for the 30th annual meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. I can think of worse places to be. Simply stated, the Codex Alimentarius is a …

International

Downloading My Flickr Photos

Chuck Zimmerman

I’ve been asked this often enough that I thought I’d post it for you. I’ve got lots of photos in my Flickr sets and sometimes someone wants to use one. Well, I’ve made them all publicly available and recently I started uploading them at the highest setting Flickr will allow. This lets you download a photo at a quality that …

Uncategorized

On The Tonight Show Set With Jay Leno

Chuck Zimmerman

I got this photo from Joe Jobe at the National Biodiesel Board while we were in Nashville at the CMA Music Festival and stuck it in a note pad and just found it this afternoon. This is from when we were on the set with Jay Leno recently before going with him to his garage after the show. It’s a …

Ag Groups, Biodiesel, New Holland

Dupont and Foss Helping Farmers and Ethanol Producers

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s more proof that our production of ethanol, especially using corn, is becoming a more and more efficient process. I find it amazing how much work is being done by so many companies that you never hear about in the mainstream media. Companies like Dupont/Pioneer and Foss North America are making some real strides in a very short time period. …

Agribusiness, Ethanol, Pioneer

Ethanol Powering IndyCars and Choppers

Chuck Zimmerman

After spending another week on the road at the world’s largest tailgate party of corn growers, the Iowa Corn Indy 250 you get a ZimmCast about ethanol. This week’s program starts out with an EPIC update from executive director, Tom Slunecka which we did in the media center at Iowa Speedway. Then you can hear what the Indycars sound like …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, Ethanol, ZimmCast

Pull For Agricultural Education

Chuck Zimmerman

If you’d like to pull for agricultural education then you might want to do it at this event coming up in Illinois. The “Pull for Agriculture Education” is classic event with a new twist. The Illinois Farm Bureau and the IAA Foundation have traditionally hosted separate shooting events, but are combining their efforts in 2007. This event will be a …

Ag Groups