Cattle rancher Debbie Lyons-Blythe talked social media at the Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit. We follow each other on Twitter. Find her @DebbieLB. She was here to encourage people not to be afraid of social media and make some suggestions on how to use it to advocate for agriculture. She starting blogging and considers her blog, Life On a Kansas …
College Aggies Online Awards Announced
The winner of the College Aggies Online scholarship competition is Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, represented at the Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit by Jacob Nyhuis. In the photo Jacob is accepting the school’s $750 award. The award also included his costs to travel to the Summit. I interviewed him after the presentation and you can hear him talk about participating …
An App That’s United And Fresh
The United Fresh App is now available just in time for the United Fresh Produce Association conference taking place this week in New Orleans. It will be on my iPhone at the next iTunes sync. The United Fresh app is available for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone users and can be downloaded free of charge at www.UnitedFresh.org/apps. The apps feature United …
Amazing Social Media Coverage of Royal Wedding
The official social media coverage of the Royal Wedding is impressive and word is that the event set records for an online streaming audience. When I saw on Twitter that the Royal newlywed getaway car was an Aston Martin converted to run on 85 percent ethanol, I was first amazed that there was a biofuels angle to the wedding. When …
Foursquare Show Down at United Fresh
Here’s an idea for your next convention or farm show. Wish I was going to United Fresh 2011 to compete in the DMA Solutions, Foursquare Showdown. DMA Solutions, Inc., is a marketing firm focused on the produce industry. I assume you all know about and use Foursquare by now right? United Fresh 2011 attendees that have GPS-enabled mobile devices can …
CAMA Ontario Webinar On New Media and Farmers
The Ontario chapter of the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association wants to help you come to grips with the new and social media of today and how that connects to farmers. CAMA Ontario will be hosting a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. eastern time. “Engaging Farmers in the New Media Platform” – Join speaker Shaun Haney, owner …
Farmers Speaking Out On Social Media
You should know by now that the AgChat Foundation has turned one year old this week and the weekly AgChat Twitter conversation is two years old. I’ll bet even Michele Payn-Knoper (founder) would not have predicted that! So the baby is growing up and there’s lots of interesting things going on as this farmer led organization continues to plough new …
A Little Intro… A Little Business
This is my first post on AgWired and Cindy asked that I write a little about myself. Here are some of the facts: I’m the daughter of a fourth generation family farmer. I think I have the greatest job in the world. I get to tell the story of American Agriculture. Whether it is educating the consumer about the real …
The Real Farmwives of America & Friends
Meet some Real Farmwives of America and Friends. RFOA is blogging and you should visit to meet them and find links to all their social networking profiles! RFOA & Friends is a growing group of women across the nation who blog about life on and off the farm. Our members either currently live on family farms, grew up on the …
Farmers At SXSW
At the just completed SXSW, farmers and agriculture were very much a part of the discussion. For example, Emily Zweber, Jeff Fowle, Chris Chinn and Zach Hunnicutt shared “how farmers are using social and new media to bridge the gap between the 2% of the population who are farmers, and the remaining 98% of people who are not.” The panel …