Every once in a while the agriblogger gets caught relaxing. This time it was WFMB farm broadcaster, Leah Guffey who got the picture. I received it via MMS this morning. So you may be wondering, what is MMS? Here’s the definition. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a new standard in mobile messaging. Like SMS (Short Messaging Service), MMS is a …

The sun is shining and I’m at St. Louis airport waiting on a plane. If you do any flying today you know how unpleasant it’s becoming. For example, I fly out of this airport pretty often. Today security took 25 minutes and I was about 10th in line, meaning that there was almost no line compared to normal. When my …

I’ve had these violets planted under my deck for several years and this is the first time I’ve seen them bloom like this. Kind of makes it worth transplanting them from the woods down the hill. I know they’re considered a weed to a lot of people but they work out perfectly where I have them. It shows that I …

The Country Living Association is now sending out a “Tip of the Week.” The latest one features these little guys and talks about pet care in warm weather. Members also get a free sample of a product to help with the problem of “hot spots.” It’s just part of how they’re “Making the good life better.”

Paul Schrimpf, PrecisionAg Institute, has an interesting article in his latest PrecisionAg e-news on texting. He writes about an announcement from Jacquie Ream, former teacher and author, on her opinion about kids communicating today: “We have a whole generation being raised without communication skills,” says Jacquie Ream, former teacher and author of “K.I.S.S. Keep It Short and Simple” (Book Publishers …

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Only one food and beverage exhibitor received an invitation to the 2008 USDA BioPreferred Showcase Conference. Naturally Iowa was one of twenty companies overall to attend the conference meant to give the federal government ideas on how to choose environmentally-friendly products. The invitation to participate in the conference was only extended to companies that can help the USDA “meet the …

Maybe I should start a “Blog of the Week” post or something. It’s getting hard to keep up with all of them but I’ll do my best to point you to them, especially good ones like this one newly created by Michele Payn-Knoper. She’s a professional speaker and agrifood consultant who has started a new blog “to help build connection …

It looks like companies and job seekers have a new resource in the agricultural industry with this announcement from Penton Media. Penton Media’s Agriculture Group today announced the launch of its new targeted online career center, AgriBizJobs.com at www.agribizjobs.com. The site offers industry employers a growing, qualified audience of agriculture professionals, while providing industry jobseekers with agribusiness-specific, categorized job listings. …

Business must be good for Farm Progress Companies. They’re increasing the frequency of two of their publications. Rural Life increases from its current quarterly publishing schedule to a bimonthly frequency beginning with its July/August issue. Rural Life, launched in 2006, is the industry’s only magazine targeting affluent multiple-acre rural homeowner-consumers. The magazine enjoys wide acceptance by its readers. Farm Futures …