Florida Farm Bureau Federation honored Southeast Agnet founders Gary Cooper and Robin Loftin-Cooper during the 66th annual meeting last week in Daytona Beach. They are pictured here with FFBF president John Hoblick. The Coopers received the “Ag Journalists of the Year” award for outstanding coverage of agriculture. Gary and Robin are our former business partners in Florida. I also do …
RFD-TV Dreaming of a Mulberry Christmas
Why is it that Christmas hype always seems to come before Halloween hype? Well, I’m jumping on the bandwagon with this post about RFD-TV‘s exciting news about which group will be putting viewers in the Christmas spirit throughout the network’s programming in November and December. Mulberry Lane, the Midwest’s most popular sister group, will perform their 2007 Christmas show at …
Obligatory Agri Talk Picture
We are covering World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin this week, along with over 175 other media representatives from all over the world. Many of them are farm broadcasters – and here is our obligatory Agri Talk picture, kind of a tradition for us to post a photo of them from every event we both attend. Some other farm broadcasters …
Global Press Conference
I have been an ag journalist for 25 years and never participated in an event quite like the global press conference for BASF here in Germany. Michael Heinz, President of BASF’s Agricultural Products Division, and Dr. Klaus Welsch, head of the European Crop Protection business, were the headliners at the event and the main news was how BASF sees the …
Jeff Nalley Cools His Computer
Did I mention that it’s hot here at the Farm Progress Show? Hot enough that Jeff Nalley, The Cromwell Ag Network, is having to cool his notebook computer in front of the cooler units so it will turn back on. He’s even got a cooling unit for it to sit on but it’s not enough. We’re working these computers pretty …
A Media Perspective of the Syngenta Learning Center
Farm Industry News editor Karen McMahon was one of the media representatives attending the Syngenta Learning Center in Milford, IA. Here she’s taking notes during our media briefing. (Me, I take pictures) Today when we were out in the field I interviewed her about what we’ve seen and what she thinks about attending a very personal, just for the media, …
Big Red WISS Now 24 Hours/Day
I don’t produce my weekly ZimmCast with a broadcast purpose in mind but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t air somewhere. One of those somewhere’s is on the Big Red WISS AM 1100 in Berlin, WI. They just announced that they’re now broadcasting 24 hours a day! Hometown Broadcasting is pleased to announce that Big Red AM 1100 is now …
Looking Down on AgriTalk
I don’t mean that the way it sounds. I was actually looking down on AgriTalk just a few minutes ago when they were doing their show live here at the ACE Convention. In the picture Mike Adams is interviewing ACE executive vice president, Brian Jennings. This takes care of the AgriTalk road picture portion on my ACE Convention coverage. It’s …
Britian Talks About Foot And Mouth
Britian officials will be addressing the Foot- and Mouth- scare in England that has U.S. producers carefully monitoring their livestock. Look for an update on the issue later this afternoon. Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds will host an on-camera press conference today, Wednesday 8 August, at 15.30, to update on investigations into the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak. * Date: …