Here’s a whole new way to drink your bloody mary. Celery straws from Duda Farm Fresh Foods. Yes, according to a story on Iconoculture the wizards at Duda have engineered a celery stalk that works as an edible straw. I’m sure you can think up some creative things to do with this.
Diversa Partners With Syngenta
Since today’s ZimmCast focused on biofuels this is a timely story as more companies are working together to try to increase the efficiency of biofuel production.
Renessen & Efficient Ethanol Production
Biofuels are continuing to be a hot topic in agriculture so I’m glad to have a ZimmCast for you this week on how a company is working to make ethanol plants more efficient and offering a new corn hybrid to growers that will produce a premium product tailored for ethanol production.
Ice Cream Blogging
You never know what you’re going to find when you’re Googling around. Like this story I just posted on World Dairy Diary. It’s your basic neat promotional story about an ice cream and a football team. But as I was looking at the Turkey Hill Dairy website I discovered they have a blog.
Looking Into Poultry & Feed
The winter travel schedule is about to heat up starting this week with a Gateway NAMA meeting in St. Louis. I’ve added an even to the schedule too. It’s the International Poultry Expo and International Feed Expo. They’ll be taking place together in Atlanta on the 24th through the 26th. This looks like a huge show and will be a first time for me.
iPods and iTunes Mushrooming
Since I just helped an agricultural media company create a podcast and I’m in a podcasting mood I thought you might find this of interest. Keep in mind that all the people referred to are using an online environment that includes the biggest podcast directory. Is your company represented there? When I see numbers like these I do have to laugh about this public comment about podcasts and iPods that a farm broadcaster made recently, “It takes too much energy and management for busy people over a long term.” Yeah? Well tell that to all the new iPod owners!
New Farm Podcast Recorders From Olympus
I’m not sure why companies wait until right after Christmas to announce all kinds of new gadgets but whatever. Here’s a cool one for you farm podcasters out there. I have an older Olympus digital audio recorder and you’ve listened to a lot of audio that Cindy and I have recorded on it. This one looks pretty good at first glance. The one pictured here is the Olympus DS-50.
M.Lakshmanan’s Blog On Agriculture
Because he emailed me and asked me to check out his blog he gets featured here on AgWired.
He’s M.Lakshmanan, an agricultural consultant in Tirunelvelli : TN : India according to his profile. You can find M. Lakshmanan’s Blog On Agriculture here.
Isn’t the web a wonderful and global place? So if you’re interested in a new perspective on agriculture check him out.
Backyard Bambi
The phone is ringing off the hook here at ZimmComm New Media headquarters. While I’ve been talking to people around the agribusiness world this was the view out my office window just a few minutes ago.
There’s actually 4 of them wandering around in the trees behind the home office. They didn’t seem to mind my taking their picture either. They just wandered off a few feet and kept on nibbling.
Turn Your Tractor Into A Wi-Fi Hotspot?
I wonder if they’ve thought of a category sub product called “TractorNet Mobile.” Probably not. But then I’m guessing you can put one of these in any kind of vehicle and that includes a tractor. How about checking your email while you’re spending a long day in the field? Or syncing your iPod to your favorite farm podcasts? Or checking the markets online without having to wait to get back to the home office? Actually you can do most of this now with a smart phone as long as you’ve got good service.