Bayer CropScience is giving thanks to people in agriculture who help feed us this holiday season. You can help them with their big goal. Bayer CropScience is donating 20,000 meals to World Food Program USA to help feed hungry Americans. Help us reach our goal of donating 40,000 meals by December 20th by sharing educational facts with your friends and …
Surviving an Undercover Video
We live in a world of anarchists/activists and they’ll stop at nothing to create mayhem. Farmers are not exempt. These wackos are really nothing more than criminals but unfortunately their shenanigans can have devastating impacts on a business. The Center for Food Integrity is conducting a webinar to present ideas for how to deal with the situation from some recent …
Climate Corporation’s Growth by Tracking Weather
Another ag based company who attended this year’s Trade Talk at the recent NAFB Convention was the Climate Corporation. They are focused on applying data science to production agriculture and take all the environmental data, weather, soil conditions and current and seasonal projections and apply it to the production agricultural decisions growers make on a daily basis. Greg Smirin, CEO …
Rabo AgriFinance Report From NAFB
Rabo AgriFinance was present for the recent Trade Talk during the 2013 NAFB Convention. The company is the leading U.S. ag lender and specializes in protein to produce and inputs to oilseeds. Their expert team monitors and evaluates the global market that influences agriculture around the world. I spoke with two of the team’s analysts at the event and they …
Apply Today for ZimmComm Internship
*The application has been updated. We had a technical glitch and need applicants to apply using this form. Sorry for the inconvenience. ZimmComm New Media is now taking applications for our Winter/Spring Internship. Students in the agricultural communications field interested in attending and learning how to “agri-blog” some of the most important industry events held every year should apply. The …
2014 International Year of Family Farming Campaign
National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson and members of the U.S. national committee to promote the United Nations’ (UN) International Year of Family Farming held a teleconference this morning to kick off events. “NFU is pleased to lead the U.S. efforts as a part of the global initiative that the UN is commencing today,” said Johnson. “In the United …
Attendees Loved MFA 100 Yr. Celebration
After the conclusion of the MFA, Inc. Annual Mtg. this week we all went outside to re-create a historic panoramic photograph in front of the Missouri State Fairgrounds Coliseum. This took a while as you might imagine but the weather was beautiful. After we were done it was time to head home and on the way out I asked a …
MFA Has Loyal Employees
The first person I interviewed at this week’s MFA, Inc. Annual Mtg. and 100 Year Celebration was Janice Schuerman, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary. One of her duties was to read the meeting minutes from the last one. We talked before the program started and I got an overview of all the activities that were planned. Janice also talked …
Jagels Elected Chairman of USMEF
*Post updated with audio from NAFB* The Nebraska Corn Board is proud to announce that Mark Jagels, a farmer from Davenport, Neb., was elected chairman of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) at the organization’s recent annual conference. Jagels served as USMEF vice-chairman over the previous year. ZimmComm intern Kristyn Stidham had a chance to talk with Mark at the …
Thanks to FMC for NAFB Trade Talk
It’s really hard to describe the National Association of Farm Broadcasting‘s annual Trade Talk to someone who has never experienced it. Farm broadcasters often refer to it as “running the gauntlet” in the quest to visit with as many of the exhibitors as possible in the short six hours Trade Talk is open. Spokespersons for the various companies and organizations …