What do you think about this new website project by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health? Their Center for a Livable Future has launched the site to “enable research on the critical links between agriculture and public health.” Do you think they understand production agriculture and have farmer’s best interests at heart? Is this needed? Who defines a …
Welcome Amanda Nolz to AgWired
Welcome Amanda Nolz to the AgWired family. Amanda will be posting regularly on AgWired during her final semester at South Dakota State University. She’s an ag comm major with a higher gpa than I graduated with! I met Amanda when she was a National Beef Ambassador. She’s passionate about her farm and her animals and you can get a sense …
Alpharma Student Video Contest Winners
The winning video in the Alpharma Student Video Contest was produced by the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’ll try to update this post with a video embed once it’s on YouTube. Alpharma Inc., Animal Health has announced that students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the $5,000 grand prize winner of the 2008 Alpharma Student Video Contest. Second …
Happy Holidays
Here’s a very cool holiday greeting from Gregory L. Geoffroy, President at Iowa State University. Once again you can thank Twitter for bringing it to my attention.
Holiday Greetings
Here’s the latest holiday card to visit my in-box from AgWired fan, Mark R. McLellan, Dean & Director, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences — University of Florida, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. I’m wondering if I should start scanning the smail cards I’m getting too. There have already been some good ones. I hope you enjoy them as much as …
Mindy Teaches Online Journalism
If you’re a regular AgWired reader then you know I’ve pointed you to Mindy McAdams before. She’s a University of Florida Journalism Professor. I got to meet her for coffee yesterday to talk about “online journalism.” You definitely need to be reading her blog if you want to enhance your agricultural communications skills. She actually has some ag background from …
Field Assignment: Support Large Animal Vets
Here’s a call to help out with the vet shortage via Charleston|Orwig. All you have to do is post a comment on the latest post on Field Assignment. We’ve blogged about the large animal vet shortage before. But now we really want to ramp up the conversation in an impactful way. In fact, we’re so eager to start a dialogue, …
Honoring Jim Evans
This evening we honored a real friend and mentor of many of us in agricultural communications, Jim Evans. He’s seen here with the Cindy’s (l-r Cindy Zimmerman, Cyndi Young, Jim, Cindy Cunningham). A reception was held in Jim’s honor and to bring to our awareness a new “Campaign for the James F. Evans Endowed Chair in Agricultural Communications” at the …
Get Your Badger Grilled Cheese
The University of Wisconsin Madison Badger Club is a grilled cheese sandwich making machine at World Dairy Expo. I would like to try one again this year but the line is too long and never seems to go down. With 139 members, Badger Dairy Club (BDC) creates opportunities for the membership to engage in activities and experiences within the college, …
OSU Photo Database
If you’re looking for ag photos then keep the OSU photo database in mind. You’ll find lots of photos like this one. Need that perfect picture for your editorial story and can’t find it? Search the Oklahoma State University Ag Communications Services photo database! Visit http://www2.dasnr.okstate.edu/ag-media and click on “Photo Database” on the left menu bar. Photos related to all …