Leading The Charge To NAMA Convention

Chuck Zimmerman

In just a few weeks we’ll be attending the 2008 National Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show. ZimmComm will have a booth there so stop by and see us. In this week’s program you can learn all about the trade show from committee Chair, Rosemary Schimek, Corporate Marketing Manager, Farm Progress Companies. Rosemary says that this year’s trade show is the …

Audio, NAMA, Publication, ZimmCast

National Ag Day in Words

Chuck Zimmerman

On National Ag Day we’re going to learn more about it from the Vice Chairman of the Agriculture Council of America, Greg Webb, State Governement Relations, Archer Daniels Midland. The Council is the organization that hosts Ag Day and all its related events. In talking to Greg I learned that this year the theme was “investing in people, policies and …

Ag Groups, Agribusiness, Audio, ZimmCast

What Are You Doing For Ag Day/Week?

Chuck Zimmerman

What is your company doing to promote or celebrate National Ag Week and National Ag Day? Are you having a party? Running a special promotion? Send me your pictures, images and audio files or links to them, including video and I’ll do my best to feature it here on AgWired over the coming week or so. Here’s something Successful Farming …

Ag Groups, Audio, Publication

Closing Out 25x’25 Renewable Energy Summit

Chuck Zimmerman

Hello from Nebraska. I’ve been attending some of the 25x’25 Renewable Energy Summit and about to head over the the Nebraska Ethanol Board’s “Ethanol 2008:Emerging Issues Forum.” In between I’ve had some meetings here as well. You can find more information on what’s going on over on our Domestic Fuel site. However, I thought you might enjoy this since some …

Ag Groups, Audio

Trimble Makes Precision Ag EZ

Chuck Zimmerman

There was certainly a lot of precision agriculture equipment and software on display at this year’s Commodity Classic as well as at the National Farm Machinery Show. Here’s Matt Hesse, Auto Pilot Segment Manager for Trimble at Classic. We asked Stewart Doan to find out what’s new from Trimble in ’08. Matt says they’ve got a number of new products …

Agribusiness, Audio, Commodity Classic, Precision Agriculture

Still More Than a Number at Wyffels Hybrids

Chuck Zimmerman

Continuing the theme of their customers being “more than a number” Wyffels Hybrids was on display at Commodity Classic. With the help of Stewart Doan we got an interview with Kim Jones. Kim says that the company is unique and independent offering a full range of traits in their hybrids, proprietary genetics packages and personal service. She says that because …

Agribusiness, Audio, Commodity Classic, Seed

Stoller USA Pushing Yield

Chuck Zimmerman

At the Commodity Classic Cindy and I couldn’t make it to all the booths that we wanted to so we enlisted the help of Stewart Doan. Stewart did several interviews for us including this one with Dave Redmond, National Sales Manager for Stoller USA. We wanted to find out what was new with this company. Dave tells Stewart that Stoller …

Agribusiness, Audio, Commodity Classic

A Binding Way to Find Ag Media

Chuck Zimmerman

There’s going to be a new publication in the ag communications world coming soon from AGRIpr. It’s going to be the FINDERBINDER Agricultural Media Directory. This morning I had a nice chat with owner Cory Cart. You can listen to our conversation and learn all about it. Cory is a native of Binger, Okla., and is the marketing and public …

Audio, Media, Publication, ZimmCast

Kip and the Bean Stalk

Cindy Zimmerman

A sample from Kip Cullers’ world record soybean yield was on display in a trophy case at Pioneer’s Commodity Classic trade show booth and it certainly received a lot of well-deserved attention. Kip’s record in 2007, you may recall, was an astonishing 154 bushels per acre. Pioneer and BASF are two of the companies Kip credits with helping him break …

Audio, BASF, Commodity Classic, Pioneer, Seed, Soybean

Farm Foundation Forum Podcast

Chuck Zimmerman

The term podcast has different meanings to different people. Me, I think it has to involve RSS so it can be subscribed to. To some it’s just a web link to an audio file. That’s the way the folks at Farm Foundation Forum view it with the posting of their “podcast” from today’s discussion. The audio quality is quite good …

Ag Groups, Audio, Podcasts