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.
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.
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.
Cathy Lusty has been promoted to senior account executive at Bader Rutter & Associates in the agency’s relationship markteting group.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on FarmWebDesign although Jane Eckert mentioned it in a ZimmCast interview. Jane is the agritourism expert and she’s now been in the web design business for a while with a focus on farms.
From February 12 to 16, I will travel in Minnesota, speaking five times to farmer meetings as part of the Linder Farm Network Marketing and Management Series of meetings. I’m looking forward to this trip because I know listening to the Linder Farm Network has become a Minnesota tradition with farmers across the state. For almost 30 years, the Linder Farm Network has been the Voice of Agriculture in the state with information that farmers need to know to run their business successfully.
Since we’re all worrying about our weight after the holidays and resolving to eat right in the new year I’m offering you an interview with Kelly Brintle, Ventura Foods who talks about low-linolenic soybeans, specifically Monsanto’s VISTIVE soybeans that can reduce or eliminate trans-fatty acids in processed soybean oil. He talks about how high the demand is for this healthy oil product and what that means for his company and farmers.
Applications are now being accepted for the Andy Markwart Horizon Award that’s being offered by AAEA and its Professional Improvement Foundation. The program is provided through a grant from John Deere and the AAEA Professional Improvement Foundation. It honors Andy Markwart, a member and leader of AAEA who died suddenly from heart complications last year.
I don’t know if you know Bob McCarty but he does have a sense of humor. In fact, Bob likes to share that sense of humor through some design work he’s done on a variety of subjects. He describes his online shop as the “home of creative, humorous and thought-provoking items.”
If you’re an RFD-TV fan then you probably know that they a magazine which is called, RFD-TV The Magazine. Now the publication has a new sales manager and he’s Larry Stoller. According to Larry:
