We’ve got a week full of conventions coming up on AgWired. I’ll be the Beef Board Blogger once again at the Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix while Cindy is attending the International Poultry Expo. It’s a livestock kind of week. Cindy gets on location first so you can expect to see her posts before mine. She’ll be in Atlanta and …
Blogging The Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair
I never have been able to work out a deal to blog the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair but I guess the idea got through to someone. Thanks to Rich Schell for the heads up. Chicago Farmers Offering Seminar on Using Social Media Marketing to Grow Your Business at Farmland Investment Fair! Jeff Korhan, green industry speaker, video blogger, Internet …
Southern Blogging From Midwest Corn Growers
Cindy noticed that our friend, David Buchholz, David and Associates, is doing a little South American blogging at Midwest Corn Growers, 2009 Study Tour to South America. In this space we allow corn growers, media and others who are interested to learn what we’ve learned and experience a bit of what we experienced on a two-week study tour to Brazil …
Inaugural Food Could Have Been A Turkey
Actually recipes made with turkey like this Turkey Tostada Ensalada are fit for the inauguration even if they won’t be served there. But that didn’t stop two chefs who offered some dishes they would have served. Looks great to me. I would happily let them serve it any time. Chefs Rocco Whalen and Mary Sue Milliken might not have been …
ASFMRA Members Use New Communications Technologies
The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers recently surveyed its members and asked them some communications technology questions. I provided some ideas for the questions and they’ve shared the results with me. So here’s some items you might find interesting (I rounded out the #’s). To start with, of the respondents, almost 70% are over 50 years old …
NCBA Forms Young Producers’ Council
The NCBA is forming a Young Producers’ Council. So I’m helping spread the word. They’ll be meeting in Phoenix at the convention coming up later this month. This is YOUR opportunity to make a difference by joining and helping to spread the word about the newly created NCBA Young Producers’ Council (YPC). YPC was created to encourage more involvement from …
Plant Management Network Teaches You How To Use It
Here’s a good example of the use of a webinar by the Plant Management Network. It looks like it was put together with Articulate. PMN recently hosted a live webcast demonstrating its informational resources and how to use them. Specifically, it showed how agricultural practitioners may use PMN’s various tools in their daily work. The webcast was presented by Howard …
Greg Guenther Receives Award From St. Louis Ag Club
At today’s St. Louis Agribusiness Club lunch meeting Illinois farmer Greg Guenther received the Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award. Greg is pictured with SLAC President Laurie Hiler (left) and his wife. I spoke to Greg afterward (on my iPhone) and he says it was a pleasant surprise. He’s says it’s nice for folks to acknowledge the time he’s put …
Greased Lightning Awarded By AFBF and New Holland
As a gadget, I mean cool tools, kind of guy I thought this was a great invention idea and it won an award at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. Daniel Prough of LaGrange, Ind., earned the grand prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 90th annual meeting. Prough won a year’s use of …
Defining Sustainability
An alliance of agricultural groups and companies has put together a report to help people understand sustainability. Yes, that word that everyone seems to have a different definition for. The report released today by the Keystone Alliance, provides a definition of economic and environmental sustainability focusing on “meeting the needs of the present while improving the ability of future generations …