Being in a baseball town makes being a slider sounds like a pitch. However, it also means being a dude who slides between a Mac and a PC. That’s me. Actually within a few days. Here’s Tim Kotthoff, Apple Store, St. Louis Galleria (left) after he just completed my purchase of a Macbook Pro. I am excited. Can’t you tell. …
New Holland Blue iPod Winner
New Holland held a drawing for a blue iPod Nano this year at their booth at Commodity Classic. That’s so one more person in agriculture can subscribe to and listen to farm podcasts right? Well the drawing was held and the winner is: Ms. Edith Gaffner from Greenville, IL We’ll be contacting Ms. Gaffner to let her know she won. …
John Thaemert New President of NAWG
Somehow I missed getting to see and talk with John Thaemert at Commodity Classic. He’s the new President of the National Association of Wheat Growers and he’s from Sylvan Grove, Kan. Thaemert’s operation includes the production and marketing of wheat, grain sorghum, alfalfa and hay. Thaemert also currently serves as vice president and trust investment officer for Citizens State Bank …
Show Me The Honey
Here’s the latest appointments to the National Honey Board as announced by USDA. Each member and alternate — nominated by the National Honey Nominations Committee — will serve a three-year term of office beginning on April 1, 2007, and ending on March 31, 2010. Newly appointed members and alternates are: Producer – Region 2: James Daniel Rodenberg, Wolf Point, Mont., …
American Farmland Trust Podcast & Promotions
While looking into this story I discovered that the American Farmland Trust has a podcast. You can use this link to subscribe in iTunes. But besides that they’ve just promoted a couple of really wonderful people. William Kuckuck, Executive Vice President, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has announced the promotion of Jane Kirchner as Director of Marketing and Jennifer Morrill as …
Osborn & Barr AOR for ICL Performance Products LP
Osborn & Barr Communications has been named agency of record for ICL Performance Products LP which manufactures and markets specialty phosphates. “We hired Osborn & Barr for the agency’s expertise in public relations and the company’s reputation for delivering measurable results,” said Dick Kennedy, president and chief executive officer of ICL Performance Products LP. “We look forward to developing a …
Podcast Measurement on a Winter Day
Why have a camera if you don’t use it right? It was so nice today I had to get out for a break. In fact, it’s warmer in Missouri today than it was when I left Tampa, FL yesterday. It almost got up to 70 degrees. Now just so you don’t think, “Chuck why are you wasting my time with …
AAEA Photo Management Webinar
I am seriously late in posting this but just in case you want to get in on a webinar about “Digital Photo Management Made Easy: How to Edit, Archive and Catalog Digital Photos.” This is being offered by the American Agricultural Editors’ Association and it’s tomorrow folks. You don’t have to be a member to register and participate. It’s not …
The Latest On NAFB & The BARN/ABN
Another Commodity Classic has come and gone and I’m in recovery mode. But I do have a ZimmCast for you which is in part from the trade show floor. In the first part of the program I interviewed the three amigos you see in the picture. They are (l-r) Jeremy Povenmire, National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Me, Bill O’Neill, NAFB …
Moons Over Missouri
It has been a long day of travel back from Tampa, FL and the Commodity Classic so this is all you get today. This is from the drive home from Kansas City airport on I-70 and taken with my Nikon using the roof of the car as a support. Just to get something to compare it to I also took …