The NDCPPHRB

Chuck Zimmerman

I want you to say, “North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board” 7 times in a row real fast. Ready? Go. Terry Weckerly, Vice President of the North Dakota Grain Growers Association was named to the North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board. The North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board was created by …

Ag Groups

Growing Goodness Online Community

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s a new website/community called Growing Goodness or the Farmers Market Channel. It looks like supporters of Farm Aid are behind it since when you open the site you get a Farm Aid YouTube video clip. If you’re looking for a good example of an online community you might want to check it out. There are a number of links …

Ag Groups, Farming

20 Years of Colossal Pork BBQ

Chuck Zimmerman

There’s been a lot of years of BBQ pork goodness at World Pork Expo. This year the Great Pork BarbeQlossal will celebrate a milestone. The Pork Checkoff’s 20th annual Great Pork BarbeQlossal contest is the Saturday of World Pork Expo, which runs June 7-9 in Des Moines, Iowa. This annual contest highlights barbeque techniques from across America. “More than 90 …

Ag Groups, Pork

Eldon White Leaving NAMA For Texas

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s a news flash for you. I guess it’s appropriate that we have the NAMA convention in Dallas this year! I will have to come back and add a picture of Eldon for you. I know I’ve got one somewhere in my photo archive at the home office. I’m getting ready to travel home from south Florida today. So Eldon …

Ag Groups, NAMA

Farm Aid Spring e-Cards

Chuck Zimmerman

Now that it’s spring Farm Aid wants you to send someone you know an e-Card. I’ll tell you what, these Farm Aid people have the social media thing going pretty good. I’d love to see this from more organizations. We’re excited to celebrate spring with our second annual e-card campaign. Please spread the joy of spring by sending a Farm …

Ag Groups

Adachi’s Trying To Get The Glass

Chuck Zimmerman

There’s a new online game from the “Got Milk” people called Get The Glass. It’s really worth a look if you have a few minutes. I think the animation and sound is some of the best I’ve seen. It features the Adachi family who are bound and determined to steal a glass of milk from Ft. Fridge. You’ve got to …

Advertising, Ag Groups, Dairy

A South Dakota Dairy Star

Chuck Zimmerman

I just love seeing these stories. With all the junk that’s on tv with stars who have no moral compass or sense of personal responsibility it’s good to see young people like this out there who I think are the real stars. There’s a new dairy princess in South Dakota. She’s Katie Norling of Beresford and she’s the 53rd South …

Ag Groups, Dairy

Certified Hereford Beef Website

Chuck Zimmerman

You’ve got to love the reference to the midwest as the Napa Valley of Beef on the new Certified Hereford Beef website. Naturally better beef. Every steak sizzles on the grill, but only Certified Hereford Beef backs it up with each naturally tender, juicy and flavorful bite. Our beef is USDA Certified and from Hereford and specific Hereford crossbred cattle …

Ag Groups, Beef

Tom Ramey New CEO For Cattlemen’s Beef Board

Chuck Zimmerman

I can’t believe the Cattlemen’s Beef Board found their replacement for retired CEO Monte Reese so fast. I guess though that if you’ve already got who you need, why waste time? Makes sense to me. So Tom Ramey here is the new CEO. He’ll take over on May 1. “We talked about undertaking a search for a new CEO, but …

Ag Groups, Beef

Center For Food Integrity Launched

Chuck Zimmerman

A new organization has been launched to increase consumer trust in our food supply. The Center For Food Integrity is actually a combination of two existing projects and has a lot of organizational backing. The Center for Food Integrity is a combination of The Grow America Project and Best Food Nation, two national initiatives established in 2006 to increase public …

Ag Groups, Food