The issue of rural internet access is a very important one in agricultural marketing and communications today. Last week I posted the full presentation made by Tim Ganschow, Agristar Global Networks, at the Gateway NAMA meeting. I’ve selected a couple of segments from Tim’s talk for you in this week’s ZimmCast. I hope you enjoy it.
How To and Not To Blog
Yesterday I was working on my high school reunion blog and ran into a great example of how to use a blog. The background is that my hometown, Sarasota, FL was in the news because some homeless advocacy group voted it the meanest city in America.
Play Combine Combat
I hope Cindy doesn’t read this post since it’s about a new online computer game called Combine Combat. It’s created by Successful Farming and John Deere. I played through all 4 levels. My first time final score was 407,494. How’s that stack up against your score? I can see in there user forum that a couple people have gotten higher that 600,000. I wonder who’s tops.
Being A Carnivore is Healthy
Maybe I’ve been hitting the keyboard too hard today but I’m getting hungry and this story isn’t helping things. I believe in meat as a part of a healthy diet so when I see a company with a name like The Healthy Carnivore my interest is peaked.
Technology Updates On Growing Point
I just love it when an agribusiness site uses audio (and promotes it). That’s why it’s worth noting that the Pioneer, Growing Point, website has new audio file. I’m going to use their link to one so you can hear what it sounds like. This one is a technology update on “gene shuffling” by Bart Baudler.
Bunge Continues China Growth
The global aspect of agriculture just keeps on happening. It’s going to be interesting to see how things play out as companies invest in other countries. Like Bunge which made a big announcement today.
Wilco & Agriliance Joint Venture
The latest ePreview from CHS and Land O’Lakes, Inc. announces that Wilco Farmers, Mt. Angel, Ore., and Agriliance have formed “an agronomy marketing joint venture.
Market Probe Acquires Marketing Horizons
This just in . . .
CowChips Introduces HeatWatchII
I would probably have posted a story about this anyway and I’m going to use in on World Dairy Diary too, but a company with this name deserves recognition. Besides the company name they’ve come up with a pretty good product name too.
ZimmComm Blog Sponsors Announced
We’re going to send out a news release on this but I’m too excited to wait. As some of you may have noticed earlier this week on AgWired, we have new sponsors coming on board World Dairy Diary.