The University of Florida (our alma mater!) was one of the land grant universities singled out by the director of USDA’s National Institute of Food & Agriculture Sonny Ramaswamy during his talk at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) World Forum last week as those who have been making changes to prepare students for the future of the …
Got Meat Processing Sense
Here’s a class I would love to attend. It’s the Aggie Processed Meat School Program. This program is not just for people who do meat processing but also those involved in quality control, business management, public relations and marketing. Here what you will learn if you attend. By attending the Aggie Processed Meat School you will discover both the science …
Become a Master of Social Media at UF
Think you’re a master of social media? If not, you can become one at the University of Florida, College of Journalism & Communications, my alma mater. I wonder if they’d like a guest lecturer? Think I’ll pursue that idea. The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications is pleased to announce the launch of our online Master of Arts …
Seasons Greetings from SDSU
The greetings are coming in from so many different places. This time it’s South Dakota State University. They put together a very nice video that summarizes a lot of the school’s accomplishments during the year.
Social Media Use in Czech Republic
I thought this information from ACDC (Agricultural Communications Documentation Center) was interesting and wanted to share. Social media usage in the Czech Republic (pdf). Would you have thought this to be the case? Looks like companies are slow to adopt but their customers are not. This is from two years ago so I would assume there has been more of …
Support I Love Farmers
I Love Farmers.org was one of the busiest booths during InfoExpo at the Ag Media Summit. T-shirt sales were doing well. If you didn’t get yours then go to their website to order. Working the booth was Luke DeGroot who says that in the last year they’ve made some great partnerships with businesses “who believe in the same things we …
Farmers Need to Stand Up and Advocate
Hopefully you’re one of the thousands who have viewed the Farmers Fight – Stand Up video. I visited with the star of that video, Jasmine Dillon. Jasmine is a graduate student at Texas A&M University and part of the student led initiative called Farmers Fight. Jasmine says the initiative started when a group of students got tired of all the …
Iowa State Student NAMA Wins Marketing Competition
The announcement of the student NAMA team that wins the annual marketing competition at the annual Agri-Marketing Conference is always so emotional. There are smiles, cheers and tears. And you even find them on the students too! This year the winning team is the Iowa State University Student NAMA team. I did not get to be involved in the team …
Farmers Fight
Stand up farmers and fight. If this video doesn’t get you fired up and inspired then we may need to make sure you’ve still got a pulse. Farmers Fight has a great story to tell. Hopefully you’ll pass it along. Oh, and that would then make you an “agvocate!” April 12, 2012 will be a day for the history books …
PROpenMic Going Back To Future
Once upon a time a long time ago I started what is now AgWired. One of the people who gave me encouragement was Robert French, Auburn University in Alabama. He is the creator of PR Open Mic which is having a week long birthday party. A University of Miami student interviewed Robert for a podcast. He was asked how he …