The business of the National Agri-Marketing Association continues in Kansas City this morning in advance of the Trends in Agriculture conference. Here’s the board of directors meeting. Presiding is outgoing President, Vicki Henrickson. One of the first items of interest I’ve learned is that NAMA membership is at its highest level since 2001. Now that’s a positive message. I’ll get …
NAMA Exec Committee Meets
The National Agri-Marketing Association Trends in Agriculture conference provides an opportunity for the organization’s board to meet. Prior to the board meeting, the NAMA Executive Committee meets. Hey, it takes a lot of work to run this organization! Here’s the group getting things done today. The program for Trends in Agriculture kicks off at 2pm tomorrow afternoon. The NAMA board …
Busy Week in Kansas City
The ZimmComm team is gearing up for a busy week in Kansas City. There’s a lot going on. First up will be the annual meeting of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance followed by the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference. Then it’s on to the NAFB convention. We’ll have full coverage on AgWired. To make it easy to see our …
Preview of NAMA Trends in Agriculture
Let’s look ahead to the 2011 National Agri-Marketing Association’s Trends in Agriculture conference. It precedes the NAFB Convention and AgWired will be there covering all the action. Our sponsor for coverage of both meetings this year is BASF! To get a preview I spoke with Trends committee chair, Gardner Hatch, Bader Rutter. Gardner gives us a review of program highlights …
Badger NAMA Meets At World Dairy Expo
Badger NAMA, the local chapter of the Nation Agri-Marketing Association, held its annual reception/meeting during the 2011 World Dairy Expo. Here’s chapter president, Travis Maier, Morgan & Myers. I spoke with him about how the chapter is doing. He says chapter membership steady at over 120 and has actually been growing. This meeting is one of their main ones during …
2012 Best of NAMA Call For Entries
It’s time to get your Best of NAMA entries ready. Don’t wait until the day of the deadline! That would be like doing your homework at the last second when you were in school. Of course you probably never did that right? You’ve done a lot of hard work and now it’s time for it to pay off. Submit your …
Heartland NAMA Fun At Farm Progress Show
The Heartland Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association held a reception at the Farm Progress Show. Here’s Susie Decker, Lisa Rigoni, Vicki Henrickson & Patty Kisner having fun in the shade. I couldn’t make it, grrr! But I wanted to. Maybe in 2013? To see who else had fun with Heartland NAMA you can see photos here. 2011 Farm Progress …
NAMA ABEF Supporting New Agrimarketers
There are many reasons to support the National Agri-Marketing Association’s Agribusiness Educational Foundation. In this chapter of my series of interviews with ABEF operational committee members we’ll hear why Sheri Seger, DTN/The Progressive Farmer, is a big supporter. Sheri is national accounts manager for the company. I visited with her at a recent stop on the agriblogging highway. Sheri says …
Early Registration Open For NAMA Trends in Agriculture
Trends in Agriculture 2011 returns to Kansas City in November just before the National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention and I’ll be there. Looking forward to a great program again this year. Get the dates on your calendar now and save on registration when you take advantage of the special early bird rate. Progress through Productivity is this year’s theme, …
Remembering Gary McKenna
I was very saddened to learn of the passing of Gary McKenna this week. There are a number of people who made a big impression on me when I was just getting into the agrimarketing world many years ago and one of them was Gary. I’ve only seen Gary very infrequently in recent years but he was one of the …