This afternoon I finally got to meet the Monsanto Future Ag Journalist Fellowship winners. Brooke Hoelscher (r) and Megan Ott (l) were escorted to my work station in the media room at Commodity Classic. Apparently they weren’t allowed access to the media room even though they had media badges. These students will someday possibly be professional ag journalists and part …
Farm Photographers
Photographers almost never get their picture taken. That’s why I try to always include pictures of them. This is the ever so creative John Walter, AgricultureOnline, who was seen getting his shot during the opening session of the Commodity Classic trade show. He’s afraid I was going to tweet it. Actually, I am since AgWired’s rss feed posts to my …
Marketeye Mobile Alerts
Farmers going to Commodity Classic are being provided with a free gift from Successful Farming. It’s called the Marketeye mobile alerts. All they have to do is text the word classic to 72466. According to the company they’ve had a great response already from farmers who want to stay on top of what’s happening on the CBOT while they’re in …
New Website For California Ag Network
Roy Isom, California Ag Network, has a new website and he’s beginning to podcast and according to last week’s USDA Farm Broadcaster’s Letter, he’ll start doing video clips too. Now we just need to get Roy on Twitter, eh? Roy also broadcasts on KMJ, Fresno. Here, you will find agri-business and farming news, information, or agriculture related resources, equipment, and …
Communicating Renewables on YouTube
We told you in last week’s ZimmCast about the Communicating Renewables Summit coming up in Minneapolis this April. This conference is designed specifically for the challenging task of getting the positive message about renewable energy out to consumers, stakeholders, policy leaders and the media. Conference organizer Joanna Schroeder with 4RCommunications has just released a new promotional video about the summit …
Surviving The Digital Information Transition
I’ve just got to point you to Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasions, once again. He works for Edelman Digital and one of his fellow digerati (Dave Coustan) will be on my breakout session panel at the upcoming NAMA Conference. Steve just did a couple of posts that anyone in communications and marketing ought to read. I’m going to take the liberty …
Last Look at Farm Machinery Show
Here are a few parting shots and thoughts from the National Farm Machinery Show. First up, this cute little pup (I think his name was Mitchell) hopped up on the New Holland Boomer 8N for a great photo op. He did get tired of the attention pretty quickly, but not before his owners and several by-standers snapped him sitting in …
FinOvation Awards
Farm Industry News presented their 2008 FinOvation Awards Thursday night at the National Farm Machinery Show. The awards went to the 16 most innovative products coming to the market, based on reader interest. Two of this year’s awards went to the two company partners who sponsored coverage of the NFMS on Agwired this week. Katie Sheets with John Deere picked …
Farm Machinery Show in the Dark
Ever wonder what it would be like if the electricity went out at a major trade show in a huge expo center? I never did, but we found out yesterday evening and this morning here at the National Farm Machinery Show. Here are a couple of little videos I shot when the lights went out. Yesterday evening, 5:30 pm: This …
High Fives for John Deere
The John Deere 5 Series utility tractors take up a significant portion of the booth space at the National Farm Machinery show and served yet another purpose – as seating for many at the show taking a break from walking around the 1.2 million square feet of exhibit space! John Deere has introduced a large volume of new tractors this …