While I visited Edith Gaffner earlier this week to deliver her iPod I spoke to her husband about the American Farm Heritage Museum which is a project they support. At the American Farm Heritage Museum, we believe in working together to keep the past alive. By preserving tractors and holding our annual Heritage Days program, we are able to show …
It’s Time For The Pfizer Pfeud
The Pfizer Pfeud sounds like a family affair. However, it’s really a battle of wits with a $10,000 prize to the winning team. Pictured left to right are Dr. Gary Neubauer, Pfizer Animal Health, Dr. Bill Thatcher, University of Florida, Dennis E. VonRoekel, Dan Maynard, Will Szoszorek and Lorin Berge It was a battle of East versus West during the …
Sec. Johanns On National Ag Day
It’s almost National Agriculture Day and in anticipation U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns held a press conference yesterday. He’s seen here at the Kick-off for National Ag Day at the National Press Club. You might be interested to see what he had to say. In his speech he spent some time talking about the farm bill and the …
Mizzou BBQ Team Tames The Tiger
These chefs are from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Mizzou BBQ Team. They made a name for themselves in a national cooking competition recently with “Tiger Steak.” Pictured are Mizzou BBQ Team captain Greg Chase with team member Natalie Kollars at the National Meat Association Meat Expo in Las Vegas. According to Greg, the team was just organized in May of …
Phil Johnson is NAMA Marketer of the Year
The NAMA Marketer of the Year is Phil Johnson, Chief Operating Officer at Colle+McVoy. He’ll receive the award at the upcoming Agri-Marketing Conference in Dallas The award is sponsored by AgriMarketing magazine. NAMA recognizes its active members with senior management of marketing and/or sales responsibilities with the NAMA Marketer of the Year award. This award is NAMA’s most prestigious honor …
John Deere Keeping You Safe
At the Commodity Classic John Deere gave away a very nice safe. The winner is Doug Rund, Twin Valley, MN. He’s a member of the Minnesota Wheat Council. Since this wouldn’t fit in the overhead on the plane he’s going to have it delivered by his local dealer. I think he’ll have to settle for putting your guns and other …
Advertising in Podcasts
Hopefully if you’re involved in marketing you’ve got a subscription to Chief Marketer. I’ve pointed you to them before because they have interesting articles like this one on advertising in podcasts. It’s titled, “And Now A Word From Our Sponsor: Podcasters Integrate Advertising Into the Mix.” It is an interview with a couple of guys from Libsyn (Liberated Syndication) who …
St. Louis is AgWired
Is agriculture important to St. Louis? You bet it is. In fact, one of the first jobs we had here at ZimmComm was to do an economic study of the financial importance of agriculture to the St. Louis economy for the St. Louis AgriBusiness Club. This was way before we began blogging and podcasting. Now about 3 years later that …
Get Connected at NAMA
Last week I said I’d have more details about the NAMA Connection Point (trade show at the convention) so here it is. Please put on your calendar so you don’t get scheduled during this exciting show. Show Hours this year: Wednesday, April 11 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. – Best of NAMA Celebration/Connection Point Grand Opening sponsored by DTN Thursday, April …
TRENDS by Cattle-Fax
If you’re wondering what the trends are in the cow-calf business then you need TRENDS. Responding directly to the needs of its clients in the cow-calf sector, Cattle-Fax has introduced TRENDS, a monthly newsletter specifically for cow-calf producers. Like other Cattle-Fax publications, TRENDS will provide expert research and analysis on the issues that affect all facets of the cattle and …