The winner of the Alltech Young Animal Scientist Award is Craig Louder, Utah State University. He’s pictured between Dr. Mark Lyons and Inge Russell. In addition to his first place overall award there were 4 regional winners, of which Craig is one. The others include: Asia-Pacific Bayu Mangkurat, Indonesia, Diponegoro University Europe-Africa Zhelyazko Sabev, Bulgaria, Trakia University Latin America Mateus …
Katherine Harmon Wins SPJ Award
Thanks to University of Missouri graduate and former AgWired student blogger, Margy Fischer, Farm Journal Machinery Editor, Test Plot Assistant Director for the heads up on this. This is from the text of an email announcement from Mizzou professor Bill Allen. He also sent along the picture of Katherine. I just wanted to let you folks know that Journalism graduate …
Resisting the Changes in Media Today
I’m sure you all know someone who wishes things were still like they were in the “good old days.” Especially the good old days of agricultural communications and marketing. I know quite a few of them actually. They’re the ones who keep hoping that people will finally get over this whole “internet thing” for example. You know, the ones who …
Podcast Training by University of Florida Ag School
Cindy found some great pictures from the current class going through the Wedgworth Leadership Institute. I assume they were learning to use their iPods for creating and subscribing to podcasts like the ZimmCast during the media training portion of the program. The name of the program changed after a generous donation in honor of the memory of Mr. George Wedgworth. …
Catch An AgBuzz
What do Bret Oelke, George Rehm, Jochum Wiersma and Mark Whitney have in common? They all blog for AgBuzz.com. It’s published by Minnesota Farm Guide in conjunction with the University of Minnesota. The purpose of AgBuzz is to gain interaction between producers and extension service staff. The benefits of AgBuzz are to everyone, bloggers, readers, and extension services. Comments are …
AgWired On The Beach
Wow, what a day it’s been. To start with the weather has been much nicer than in central Missouri. Then I got to teach a class in podcasting to a group of students at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. From there I drove through Morro Bay to get some Pacific Ocean shots and then on back to Bakersfield for …
Cal Poly Ag Publications Class
Here’s Dr. Scott Vernon introducing our podcasting class today. We’ve created a demonstration podcast where I interviewed Erin who will be attending the Ag Media Summit again this year along with 20 other students from Cal Poly. If you’d like to get the demo podcast and listen to Erin then you can use this link. We’re about out of time …
Getting Started at Cal Poly
I’m on the Cal Poly campus here in San Luis Obispo and getting ready to start my podcasting class. Students are filtering in and opening up the new iPods we’re going to use as part of the training. I’ll probably be posting a little more from here today but we’re not really doing a blogging session. I also added to …
New Media Presentation at Cal-Poly
Next week I’ll be flying out to San Luis Obispo and the California Polytechnic State University to do a little new media training. Scott Vernon has set up a double session for faculty and students titled, “Exploring the New Media: Using Podcasts to Drive Your Message and Expand Your Reach.” This is going to be fun. The idea is to …
Colorado State Wins Cattlemen’s Foundation Quiz Bowl
Here’s the Quiz Bowl Champions from this year’s Cattlemen’s Foundation collegiate competition. They’re from Colorado State University and pictured are: L-R: Scott Howard, Dominic DiSanti, Josh Docheff, Shannon Case and Travis Hoffman, Advisor. The competition was held in Reno at the Cattle Industry Convention. In addition to Colorado State, regional championship teams from Ohio State University, Penn State University, and …