The National Corn Growers Association is familiar to just about everyone in agriculture but how many of you know how their marketing department works? To find out what they do there in St. Louis I dropped in and spoke with NCGA Vice President of Marketing, Fred Stemme. Fred used to work here in mid Missouri for the Missouri Corn Growers Association before getting his job with the national organization.
Zimfo Bites
- State Farm Bureaus Honored for Excellence.
- What the iPhone means for Radio. You farm broadcasters need to read this.
- Bayer CropScience unveils 2007 Growing Strong Rewards Program.
- Consumer Advocacy Groups: The Attacks on Agribusiness Begin. Next program for the Kansas City Agribusiness Council – January 24, 2007 • 2:30 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. Contact Gina to register.
- Borlaug-Monsanto Chair for Plant Breeding and International Crop Improvement created at Texas A&M.
- The National Turkey Federation Promotes Three Staff Members.
Blog Post on AgWired = High Search Engine Rank
I spoke to a representative from AgSpeak on Friday and as we were talking I did a Google search of their name. They already knew this but the results show their website at the top and the 2 posts I did on them on AgWired show up as numbers 4 and 5 on the list! That’s higher than the news release they sent out through PRNewswire.
Zimfo Bites
- National Pork Board Names 2007 Celebrated Chefs America’s Top Chefs to Showcase Pork.
- Biodiesel Information Available on John Deere Web Site.
- Get your own branded podcatcher and directory at PodcatcherZ.
- Top Farmer Idea Award Goes to Texas FB Inventor.
- Register Now for Region 2 Best of NAMA.
- Somark Innovations Announces Successful Animal Tests of Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink in Cattle and Laboratory Rats.
Thinking About National Agriculture Day
Right about now I like the idea of spring. We’re in an ice storm situation here in the midwest. It’s nasty out.
That’s why I thought we should think about National Agriculture Day which is coming up in just a couple months.
Nutrena Iron Horse Award Winner
I’m sure you know that we built a blog for the Appaloosa Horse Club and I think Steve Taylor and company are off to a good start with it. So we now get their announcements like this one about the Nutrena Iron Horse Award. I’ve heard of an iron man competition but this is the first I’ve heard of an iron horse competition.
Russell Graves Photo Essays
Russell Graves has given me permission to use some of his photos here on AgWired and I’d sure like to do it more often. In fact, I hope to meet Russell in person some time. I just know we’d get along great. He’s going to continue to document wildlife in a variety of ways and I’m going to continue to document agribusiness not only here on AgWired but with some other plans I have for the future.
American Farmer & Blogger
Farm blogging is growing folks. In fact, I think I know of more farmers blogging than the companies that are trying to sell them products and services! Let’s take Greg Knott for example. He’s one of several farmers who have written to me lately after finding AgWired.
White Backyard Bambi
My backyard bambi last week prompted one AgWired reader to send in her own. This is a picture from Columbia, MO of what’s probably an albino deer. This one’s living behind Marylin Cummins house.
Ames at Ivy
Here’s a company with an interesting name. Although it’s now Ivy, the founder was I.V. Sollins who started the company back in 1972. I’ll bet you didn’t know that.