Innovations From a Small Island

Chuck Zimmerman

The British Guild of Agricultural Journalists will be the host for the prestigious IFAJ World Congress this year for an unprecedented sixth time. The Congress is titled, “Entitled Innovations from a Small Island” and the event will showcase British food and farming to the global media. The ZimmComm team hopes to be there and is seeking sponsors at this time. …

IFAJ, International, Media

Agri Marketing & AgWired Top Tens

Chuck Zimmerman

Happy New Year. Now let’s look back at 2013. In this week’s program I visit with Lynn Henderson, Agri Marketing Magazine. We’ve each put together our top ten story posts from AgriMarketing.com and AgWired.com based on the traffic from our respective audiences. We only had one story common to our lists. You can find the Agri Marketing list here and …

Audio, Media, ZimmCast

Top Story Posts in 2013

Chuck Zimmerman

Since everyone else is doing their 2013 top ten I might as well do the same. Actually we normally do this. Looking at website analytics only this list is the top ten most visited/viewed/read/etc. of all our posts from 2013. The interesting thing is that there were story posts from previous years that had higher traffic. I’m not including them …

Media, ZimmComm Announcement

Farm Journal Media Acquires American Countryside

Jamie Johansen

Today Farm Journal Media announced the acquisition of ‘American Countryside’ from it’s founder, producer and well-known, ANdrew McCrea. ‘American Countryside’ is a nationally syndicated daily radio program featuring the “people and place unique to rural American.” Don’t worry, Andrew will continue to host the program, plus join Farm Journal Media as a multimedia contributor. The three-minute, short-form radio vignette has …

Ag Groups, Media

Happy Holidays from Farm Progress

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s a Happy Holidays from Farm Progress. Celebrate the Season – Insight, Authority, Engagement Wishing you peace, happiness and joy this holiday season. From all of us at Penton Farm Progress Group, Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. All the best to you and yours . . . Click on the image to view it the video.

Media

Happy Holidays From Seed World

Chuck Zimmerman

It’s a Happy Holidays message from Seed World. Click on the photo to view the video and enjoy Jingle Bells. In honor of the season of giving Seed World has made a contribution to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Media

AgNet West Radio Network Owned by AgNet Media

Chuck Zimmerman

News from AgNet West Radio Network: AgNet West Radio Network is pleased to announce its entire business operations have been fully acquired and will be merged into AgNet Media, Inc., which includes a group of farm media properties solely owned and operated by Gary Cooper and Robin Loftin. Both Loftin and Cooper were instrumental in launching AgNet West in California …

Media

Global Manager for IFAJ

Chuck Zimmerman

We want to congratulate our friend Jose van Gelder, Agriterra, for her new job with the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists. Here’s her announcement message from Facebook: Yippee!! As of next month, I’m appointed as the new Global Manager for the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ)! Great challenge and perfect combination with my current work at Agriterra, for which …

IFAJ, International, Media

Climate Corporation’s Growth by Tracking Weather

Jamie Johansen

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 …

Agribusiness, Audio, Media, NAFB, Weather

Rabo AgriFinance Report From NAFB

Jamie Johansen

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 …

Agribusiness, Audio, Beef, Corn, Grains, Markets, Media, NAFB, Soybean