Since the new staff at USDA is finally filling out and we’ve now had a couple months of a new administration in Washington, DC I thought it might be a good time to learn about what’s going with farm policy these days. So I went to the expert, Keith Good, Farm Policy. Keith and I chatted via Skype today and …
Agriculture Week According To The Chairman
Welcome to Ag Week and the ZimmCast. This week we’re all about celebrating American agriculture and thanking our farmers and ranchers who feed and fuel the world. In this week’s program I spoke with Greg Webb, ADM, who is currently Chairman of the Agriculture Council of America. He says the purpose of this week and National Agriculture Day on March …
Update on IFAJ and Ag Media Summit
In this week’s program we’ll get an update on the IFAJ and Ag Media Summit program from Joann Alumbaugh, Farms.com. Joann is co-chair of the program committee this year. Our planning committee for the conference met after Commodity Classic in the Worthington Hotel, Ft. Worth, which is where we’ll be at the end of July and first of August. To …
Future Ag Journalists
In this week’s program you get to meet Brooke Hoelscher and Megan Ott. They’re the Monsanto Future Ag Journalist Fellowship students who were set up to cover the Commodity Classic on blogs created by Monsanto – Brooke’s Commodity Insider and Megan’s Classic Chronicle. We had a nice chat in the media room at Commodity Classic. Brooke is a junior ag …
The Classic Whaley
Cindy took this picture of Hugh Whaley, (l) Broadhead+Co and Barry Nelson, John Deere, during the Commodity Classic trade show. That gives you an updated look at Hugh since I used an old one in the story about his moving to Broadhead+Co. As things slowed down today I got to sit down and visit with Hugh about his new position. …
Communicating Weed Science Information
Last week I presented a session on agricultural communications in the new media world at the Weed Science Society of America annual meeting. My contact was Chad Brommer, Emory University, who is a champion for new media channels in the organization. If you don’t know much about WSSA then listen to my interview with him in this week’s program and …
Communicating Renewables Summit
If you’re involved in getting the message out about renewable energy then there’s a new conference just for you. It’s the “Communicating Renewables Summit.” In this week’s program Cindy talks to conference founder, Joanna Schroeder, 4RCommunications. Some of you probably know Joanna from her days at the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (now Growth Energy). ZimmComm New Media and Domestic …
Talking About Photography
Childress, TX is home to one great photographer and that would be Russell Graves, RussellGraves.com. I spent a half day with him yesterday and feel like I learned a lot from the experience. I know that a lot of AgWired fans are pro photographers themselves or at least have a real interest in taking pictures so I hope you’ll really …
Forrest Roberts The New CEO of NCBA
The ZimmCast was done this morning in the NCBA media room and contains my first interview with Forrest Roberts in his new role as the CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. AgWired would like to congratulate him. He’s sure got some big shoes to fill coming in after Terry Stokes! I was just one of many who interviewed Forrest …
Associating With StollerUSA
I got to associate with Jerry Stoller, CEO and President of Stoller Group, today at his 16th annual U. S. Ag Associates Conference in Houston, TX. I am on location with the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show but had time to stop by and speak to Jerry during their lunch break today. Patricia Lawson, Hondo Group, was kind …