You can find out all the latest about soybean rust at a series of seminars that kick off Thursday in St. Louis. The American Soybean Association is offering these programs. There’s several to choose from. They’re free to ASA members.
A Pre-NCBA Convention Discussion
It’s a new year on AgWired and our first ZimmCast of the year is with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president-elect, Mike John. Mike talks about the issues that will be discussed at the upcoming Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show in Denver. He encourages cattlemen to become members and get involved in the process.
Happy New Year From ZimmComm
It’s the end of the year and although I don’t have a “year in review” to offer I do have some statistics, reflections and ideas to share. Statistics as in traffic to the ZimmComm blogs. I’ll update this post if there’s a big change in the numbers by midnight (that is if I remember).
Learfield Communications Gets Creative
Learfield Communications is getting Creative I see. I still have a few Google news alerts and this morning one of them pointed me to TellTail Signs which wrote about AgWired. This is “Learfield Creative: Crafting Content for the Long Tail.” I’m glad to see a traditional media company branching out into the brave new media world.
NAFB Top Ten Stories of 2005
I have no motivation or inspiration to do a year in review so I’m glad that others are taking care of these duties. I guess I think that if anyone wants to know about the year at AgWired they can just scroll down!
Cool Extras At The ASI Convention
No, it’s not a story about hot air balloon riding per se. But hot air balloon riding is what you can do if you go to the American Sheep Industry Association convention in Mesa, AZ. Here’s how they describe it:
Pork Delegates Appointed
It’s appointment time again for our U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns.
Lallemand Supports Organic Producers
My friends at Lallemand know how to get my attention. This time it was with some great San Louis gourmet coffee from Alotenango, Guatemala. I can’t find a website for this coffee or the importer, Lankin Corporation, but if you can find it, it’s good! It’s farm fresh roasted and packed.
WordPress 2.0 Now Available
It’s the best and it sounds like it’s getting better. For all you bloggers and wanna-be’s you need WordPress to do it right. I’m hooked and it’s going to be hard to change me.
100 Years of the National Western
This would be me in a rodeo. You can’t get thrown and trampled by a stick. However, I wouldn’t be safe because you can still trip over a stick and fall down and break your neck.