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 …
Grandma’s Got a Blue iPod
The winner of the New Holland Blue iPod contest which was held at their Commodity Classic booth is Edith Gaffner of Greenville, IL. Here at ZimmComm we like to provide order fulfillment with a smile so I was in St. Louis already and decided to just drive out to the Gaffner farm to personally meet Edith. I had a very …
The Big 3-0-0-0
This is post #3000 on AgWired. It’s hard to believe that I’ve posted that many times in the last 2 years. As one of the students in my presentation yesterday said, “You’ve got an awesome resource.” They were looking at all the categories I’ve got and how many stories or posts to each of them there are. A lot of …
Blogging From The Ag J Class at MU
Hello from the University of Missouri Agriculture Bldg. in Columbia, MO. I’m doing a presentation on new media for the AGJ Capstone class. Here they all are. No one’s asleep yet. Hopefully they won’t be. We’re in Q&A right now. This is a live demo post to show them how quickly and easily we can use this mechanism to cover …
Corn Crop Will Be Big
Everyone seems to want to know how much corn is going to be planted and what it’s going to be used for. Farm Futures has their producer planting intention survey results out and they say it’s going to be a big one. Thank you ethanol and prices. Farm Futures estimates corn plantings at 88.4 million acres, up 13% from last …