Why Blog The Cattle Industry Convention

Chuck Zimmerman

Monte ReeseCattlemen’s Beef Board CEO, Monte Reese talks about why they decided to blog the convention in an interview I conducted with him this afternoon. He starts out providing an overview of the convention as it relates to the Beef Checkoff.

Ag Groups, Audio, Beef, Cattle Industry Conference

National Biodiesel Conference Blog Announced

Chuck Zimmerman

National Biodiesel BoardIt sure seems like the ZimmComm blog announcements are coming out hot and heavy lately. There’s still more to come too. Today we were able to announce one of our latest projects – the National Biodiesel Conference blog.

Ag Groups

DomesticFuel Blog Takes Off

Chuck Zimmerman

DomesticFuelPosting has been a little light this week but I will have a lot coming out over the next couple days. ZimmComm has been a little busy evolving ever further into the new media world. For that reason we’re changing our name to ZimmComm New Media, LLC. We’re pretty much all about new media now, even though a lot of what we do still involved marketing and communications. As a former colleague used to say about his organization, “We’re a constantly evolving strategy.”

Ag Groups, Ethanol

Aprhodisiac Tomatoes From Florida

Chuck Zimmerman

Florida TomatoesDoing creative television commercials doesn’t have to break your budget. That’s what the Florida Tomatoe Committee found out when they created this new tv campaign. The campaign will air beginning January 30 and run again in March on several cable networks targeting women, 25 – 54.

Ag Groups, Agencies, Video

CBB Blog To Inform Producers

Chuck Zimmerman

Cattlemen's Beef BoardWhen the Cattlemen’s Beef Board was looking into ways to better communicate with producers about the activities of the next week’s Cattle Industry Convention, especially their committee meetings they turned to blogging and asked us to create and manage the site.

Ag Groups, Beef

Beef Lover Sweepstakes Contests

Chuck Zimmerman

MBIC Report PodcastThe Missouri Beef Industry Council’s weekly MBIC Report this week is with Marketing Director Dawn Thurnau who talks about sweepstakes contests for beef lovers that are being promoted in national magazines in addition to regular beef advertising.

Ag Groups, Audio, Beef, Podcasts

Quirky Hispanic “Drink Milk” Ads

Chuck Zimmerman

Hispanic Got Milk TV AdIf you’re sitting there wishing you had something interesting to watch, try these new Got Milk hispanic ads. They’re set to begin airing January 30. I think Adrants describes these spots right with the word “quirky.”

Ag Groups, Dairy

Farm Bureau Mutual Crop1 Acquisition Complete

Chuck Zimmerman

Farm Bureau MutualI just stopped off at a Holiday Inn here in Chicago for a quick email check with their lobby wi-fi and found out that the Farm Bureau Mutual acquisition of Crop1 Insurance is final as announced today (one AgNewsWire.AgWired.com).

Ag Groups, Agribusiness