I was looking through my latest issue of Living The Country Life and saw an ad for New Holland. It features a blue cow out in front of a red, green and a sort of off-white cow. All it says is “Looking for a new tractor? whyblueisbetter.com.” That leads you to a website showing off some tractors. You can listen …
NIAA Symposium Release
The National Institute For Animal Agriculture has just sent out its final virtual news room release from its annual meeting out in California. Just like earlier this week they’re using AgNewsWire.AgWired.com to produce and distribute the release. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture annual meeting in Sacramento this week featured a symposium titled “Impacts of Animal Production Safety Practices on …
Let’s Meetup in Dallas Next Week
Hello all you AgWired fans. How about an AgWired Meetup? Next week is the 2007 Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show as if you didn’t know. Most of the activities kick off on Wednesday but I know a lot of you will be there early, like me. So the Truffle guys and I are inviting you to stop by and say …
Animart Hires Lepple as Marketing Manager
It sounds like Christine Lepple has the perfect qualifications for her new job at Animart.
Webinars on Webinars & Blogging
If you’re not a regular reader of eMarketer I highly recommend it. Theirs is one of the only daily e-newsletters I subscribe to and actually read. They also send out an eMarketer FYI on timely subjects. The latest is on a GoToMeeting webinar on the Top Ten Webinar Best Practices. I’ve had a number of clients asking about webinars lately …
New Media Workshops at the Ag Media Summit
Thanks to the Livestock Publications Council’s latest newsletter I’ve got an early peak at the program for this summer’s Agricultural Media Summit. You can find a general program outline on the Ag Media Summit website. If you want to see the detailed schedule then join LPC or give me a call and I can share it with you. I do …
Mangoes From India
You are definitely not going to see this on CNN or Fox News. At least not until they have their event in June. I can only imagine what Florida or California mango growers think of this idea. How big of a need do we have for mangoes anyway? Today, the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) met with U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador …
Land O’Lakes Makes Better Animals
It’s “The place where animal lovers come together.” It’s a new interactive website by Land O’Lakes Purina Feed. You need to be a member to be able to take advantage of the features offered on the site. Land O’Lakes employees, members and customers now have a fun, interactive way to learn about Land O’Lakes Purina Feed’s Better Animals program. Visit …
The KINZE Vision
Two Iowa companies, KINZE Manufacturing and Ag Leader Technology, have gotten together to develop new planting techology that improves the precision and control of row crop planters. Now if they could just add a satellite tv feed into this thing. The new KINZE Vision system is based on the Ag Leader Insight display with touch screen control (on a large …
Three Hills Rodeo Owner Dave Moorehead
The main man for Three Hills Rodeo is owner, Dave Moorehead (right). He’s pictured here with bull fighter Rory Meeks. Dave was on the scene at their rodeo last week in Green Bay, WI making sure everything was running smooth. I got to talk to him about his rodeo business before things got crazy. Dave says the rodeo grew out …