According to the latest NAFB eChats they’ve got a new qualitative farmer media use study out that says farmer use of iPods and other digital audio devices has grown to about 5 percent! This seems like pretty fast growth to me when you consider that they didn’t even exist just a couple years ago. I guess it’s kind of like radio back when it got started. How many farmer had one in the first 2 years? Was it 5 percent?
This Week’s Deere Gear Toy Winner
The winner of the Deere Gear Toy Tractor Contest for this week is Wilmer Myers from Broadway, VA.
Play Pioneer Games
You have to have a Pioneer Growing Point login to have access but there’s some new video games in town. The first one is “Max The Protector.”
Cowboy Day In July
I did not know there was a National Day of the American Cowboy until I got an email from Ron Goldy. Actually Ron was letting me know that I could participate in the Cowboy.com (what a great domain name) pay per click program. You can find lots of stuff there.
Mentoring Tomorrow’s Communicators Today
In case you AAEA members didn’t know it there’s now a student mentoring program underway. It’s really easy to get involved and share your talents with some of our communicators of tomorrow.
Max Out Your Cattle Operation
Who says cowboys don’t use computers? Of course they do and this software from Cattlesoft, Inc. is one of the programs that will help them manage their herds. It’s now out in the 2006 edition.
R&K In Top 100 Again
Steve Rhea says they’re headed in the right direction. They being Rhea & Kaiser Marketing and Communications. This year Adweek ranked them number 83 in the top 100 agencies.
Nominate Your Favorite Red Meat Exec
Who’s your favorite red meat industry executive? You might want to nominate him/her for the 8th annual Richard L. Knowlton Innovation Award. This award is given by Meatingplace and honors executives of the red meat industry who demonstrate exceptional business leadership, product or process innovation and overall exemplary corporate citizenship.
Bader Rutter Rings The Bell
Bader Rutter cleaned up on some regional Business Marketing Association’s Bell Awards presentation in Milwaukee. Not all of them are for ag accounts.
Show Us Your Tunis
A red headed blogger has to post a story about red headed sheep. In this case it’s Tunis Sheep. The “show us” headline is because: