The 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference is underway. I have started some photo albums on the NAMA Flickr account. There’s one for student competition photos and one for the overall conference. 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference – Student Photo Album Today we have meetings of the NAMA Board, Chapter Leaders, a workshop, and then the party begins. We’ll have …
2025 Agri-Marketing Conference Preview
It’s almost time for the 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference. To get a preview of all the activities I spoke with Carrie Isaacson, Broadhead, Chair for this year’s conference. You can listen to my conversation with Carrie here: (11:06) FUEL YOUR FUTURE AT NAMAPALOOZA Get ready for the 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference — your front-row seat to the future of agri-marketing! This high-energy …
Time To Register for NAMA Palooza
I’m all signed up to go to Kansas City this spring for the 2025 NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference! I can’t wait to join my fellow agri-marketers for this incredible event. Join me! The NAMAPalooza will take place at the Sheraton Crown Center Hotel, 2345 McGee, Kansas City, Missouri. Get registered if you haven’t yet. The hotel cutoff is March 17, 2025. …
NAMA 2024 Professional Development Awards of Excellence
The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) is pleased to announce three marketing and agricultural leaders as winners of the 2024 Professional Development Awards of Excellence. Marketing Communications – Erin Kolstad, G&S Business Communications During her 7-year tenure at G&S, Erin has quickly learned new technical information and understands how to apply communication strategy to help achieve business goals. Erin demonstrates a …
ZimmCast 735 – Preview of 2024 NAMA Fall Conference
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. It’s time for the 2024 NAMA Fall Conference which will be held in Minneapolis, MN, October 14-16. The theme is “Fall Back” and you’ll hear why in my interview with Laura Rustmann, Director of Marketing and Sales, J.L. Farmakis, Inc. and Chair of the committee that is organizing the conference. BTW. You can register …
Fall Ahead to the 2024 NAMA Fall Conference
We’re counting down the days to the NAMA Fall Conference and can’t wait to see you there! Be sure to book your room at the Lofton Hotel in Minneapolis by October 1 to secure the best rate. Rooms are expected to sell out, so don’t miss the savings. Got your room booked? Now all that’s left to do is gear …
NAFB Names Gardner Hatch as Executive Director
The new executive director of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) is a name well-known in the agricultural marketing world – Gardner Hatch. Hatch brings 30-plus years of experience in public relations, agriculture marketing, and strategic communications to the role, having worked with some of the ag industry’s leading companies. Most recently, he was strategic marketing lead at Woodruff, …
2024 Student NAMA Winners
Purdue University’s student NAMA chapter took home first place in the 2024 Student Marketing Competition at the National Agri-Marketing Conference last month in Kansas City. In addition, Brady Brewer with Purdue University received the Outstanding Advisor Award. This was the 48th year for the competition and 27 student chapters participated with six making it to the finals. The final six …
Passing of the NAMA Gavel
John Rozum, AEM, officially passed on the gavel of National Agri-Marketing Association President to Laura Svec, Corteva Agriscience, at the end of the 2024 National Agri-Marketing Conference last week. Thanks to COVID, Rozum ended up serving a record seven years on the NAMA executive committee. “We just held over the board for 2020-2021,” he said. “COVID was a real challenge.” …
The Best of NAMA 2024
John Deere was the big winner at the National Agri-Marketing Association “Best of NAMA” awards ceremony at the annual conference this week in Kansas City. The Best of NAMA awards program honors the best of the best work in agricultural communications with national winners chosen from regional competitions. There are 63 categories ranging from print to broadcast to social and …