The first speaker at the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference was Franck Schuurmans, Non-Profit Practices for Decision Strategies International. He really made us work our brains early by speaking about strategies. For one thing he challenged everyone to not be so confident in “knowing what you know” as in “knowing what you don’t know.” You’ve got to think about that …
Why Do You Attend Trends in Agriculture?
I would have had more posted from the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference last night but we had major web server work being done. That’s my excuse. That’s all done with though so expect to see much more today here on AgWired. Let’s start with this. I asked some of the folks attending why they are here: trends-08-collage.mp3 And of …
NAMA GPS Drawing
Once again this year, NAMA is offering some incentive for you to get a friend or co-worker to join. You’ve only got until November 5 so get those applications in. If you do, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a GPS unit. Every NAMA member who recruits a new member between now and November 5 will be included …
A Postcard From NAMA
You can get your NAMA postcard to use for a variety of purposes on the NAMA Leader Resources & Recruitment Tools webpage.
Badger NAMA Awards Tree
The Badger NAMA chapter must have won a lot of awards to have this many leaves on their “tree.” The Badger National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Chapter recently donated $500 to the building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison NAMA Awards Tree, a display that recognizes the accomplishments of the student chapter over the past 30 years. “Since its accreditation in 1978, …
NAMA Webinar on Social Networking
Social networking? What’s that? Find out with the next NAMA Webinar is coming up very soon. The Confluence of Social Networking and Mobile Marketing: The Value Proposition for Agribusiness Join John Gilbert with Bader Rutter for NAMA’s second webinar on Thursday, October 9 at 1:00 p.m. (CENTRAL TIME). Cost for the webinar is only $35. Social networking refers to a …
NAMA Boot Camp Presentations Available
Those fine folks at Truffle Media Networks have worked with NAMA to make some of the Boot Camp sessions available for you to listen to and/or download. Podcast sessions include: Producer Panel Food & Fuel Text Book Marketing and Real World Examples Creative In Agriculture Client/Agency Panel To download and listen to the podcasts, please visit http://www.trufflemedia.com/home/content/2008-nama-boot-camp-selected-presentations. Thank you and …
Monsanto Talks Sustainability
The recent surge in profitability within the agriculture sector is giving farmers and ag companies a bit of room to breath. But, Monsanto says, just a bit. Michael Doane, Monsanto’s Sustainability Team Lead says that with profitability comes responsibility: a responsibility for the agricultural climate of the future. There are big questions, Michael says, that begged to be asked, and, …
How A Farmer Uses Media
At this year’s NAMA Boot Camp, attendees got to hear from a panel of producers. One of them was Hal Swaney, Platte City, MO. Hal has a very diversified family farm with corn, soybeans, cattle and burley tobacco. I asked him what his primary sources of information are for making buying decisions. He says that he’s very “local” minded. He …
Cool Interactive New Media
I’m seeing new media presentations on more and more programs these days and last week’s NAMA Boot Camp was no exception. Erin Holt, Media Supervisor, Martin Williams, was on the program with a presentation titled, “Cool Interactive Ideas.” So I sat down with her to learn about her ideas when it comes to using new media for her clients. Erin …