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Corn Blog Wins Gold Award

Cindy Zimmerman

Gotta admit to being pretty proud of this – the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Center for Association Leadership has awarded the National Corn Growers Association with a 2008 Gold Circle Award in the category of “Blogs – Association Annual Budget Greater than $2 Million” for Corn Commentary. John H. Graham IV, CAE, president and CEO of …

Corn, NCGA

New NCGA Director of Communications

Chuck Zimmerman

I’m sure I’m waiting in line to meet the new Director of Communications for the National Corn Growers Association. She’s Nancy L. Bunker Koester and she started on Monday. In this position, Nancy will lead NCGA’s communications team and direct public relations and media relations for the organization. Nancy is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) with more than 20 years …

Ag Groups, NCGA

An NCGA Welcome to CUTC

Chuck Zimmerman

The CUTC is officially underway now that our keynote session and reception is over. It’s a very quiet media room as yours truly is the only one here. At least the internet access is sort of working. It won’t let me upload to Flickr but I guess that’ll have to wait until later. Post Update: Here’s some photos: CUTC Photo …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, CUTC, NCGA

Welcome to CUTC

Chuck Zimmerman

The fun and games are about to begin here at the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference. The event is being held at the Marriott in downtown Kansas City and I just got in and connected in the media room. In less than an hour we’ll kick things off with a Keynote Speech by USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Tom …

Corn, NCGA

The Technical Use of Corn

Chuck Zimmerman

Next week’s on-location activities for ZimmComm New Media start off at the Corn Utilization & Technology Conference, CUTC, in Kansas City, MO. I’ll be there producing content for Corn Commentary as well as right here on AgWired. If you don’t know anything about CUTC then you will after you listen to this week’s program. I was in the NCGA offices …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, NCGA, Research, ZimmCast

NAMA Honors NCGA CEO

Cindy Zimmerman

Congratulations from AgWired to the CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, who received the Agribusiness Leader of the Year award at the National Agri-Marketing Association conference in Kansas City on Thursday. Rick Tolman has been in charge of NCGA for almost eight years, during a time of dramatic changes, new challenges and the highest prices in history for corn …

Agencies, NAMA, NCGA

NCGA Starts Podcast

Chuck Zimmerman

The National Corn Growers Association is Gettin’ Jiggy wit It. They’re doing RSS Feeds of their news, they’re blogging and now they’re podcasting. Here’s the file you need in order to subscribe. Now Hear This: A Better Way to Get Top NCGA News (4-8-08) The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), which has been making audio files of its top news …

Ag Groups, Corn, NCGA, Podcasts

Classic Scholarships

Cindy Zimmerman

BASF, the American Soybean Association and the National Corn Growers Association are supporting the future of agriculture by awarding scholarships to young people working towards careers in the industry. The first scholarship winners were announced today at a Commodity Classic news conference. I did interviews with all the winners who were here, which I will post later, but here is …

Audio, BASF, Commodity Classic, Corn, NCGA, New Holland, Soybean