Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this episode I’m going to share a couple of interviews from the NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. One is with Gardner Hatch, Executive Director, NAFB and Debbie Boyle, Vice President, Kynetic. They talk about a new NAFB listener survey. Then I have an interview with Melanie Rice, Brownfield Ag News, about becoming the new President …
ZimmComm Announces Travel Retirement
After over 20 years of hitting the “agriblogging” highway, ZimmComm principals Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman are retiring from business travel at the end of 2025. The Zimmermans founded ZimmComm in 2004 as the first social media-based agricultural communications company and pioneered “event blogging” for farm and biofuels conferences, capturing the sights and sounds in photos and interviews. Nearly 225,000 photos …
Passing of Gene Hemphill
Cindy and I are very sad about the passing of Gene Hemphill. He was a great man who smiled a lot and always wanted to help anyone. He was also a very good friend. I don’t know how many hours or days we worked together, especially some unique projects like a trip to Jay Leno’s garage where we ate pizza …
ZimmCast 739 – Happy New Year ZimmCast
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. Welcome to another year of agriblogging and farm podcasting. It’s hard to believe that we’re coming close to 21 years since we started ZimmComm in 2004. Cindy and I have worked together in the ag marcom field for about 21 years before that. Now we’re doing some thinking and planning for 2025. I sense …
Happy New Year from AgWired and Grok
This image was generated by AI, specifically the X-model Grok. If there is one prediction we can make about 2025, it’s that AI is going to become a lot better and more mainstream. We hope to find new ways to use this new tool in the new year.
May You Be Blessed This Christmas
“And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” I know we used this image with some of our grand children last year, but . . . it’s so good and all I can say is that I think all Jesus wants for Christmas is for us to just be with him.
First Golden Mic Awards Presented at NAMA
In honor of ZimmComm’s 20th anniversary, we decided to recognize some of the people who have spent the most time talking into the Golden Microphone. Since we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 interviews from over the years, we narrowed it down to just NAMA members and we still had lots of candidates. Our judging criteria was based on …
ZimmComm Celebrates 20th Anniversary
ZimmComm is celebrating 20 years of serving the agricultural business, marketing, and media industries in 2024. The company was founded in 2004 by former farm broadcasters Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman with the idea of helping agribusinesses and organizations reach media outlets with their message in a new way. “What is now social media was called ‘new media’ at the time,” …