Introducing AgWired iPhone App

Chuck Zimmerman

ZimmComm New Media announces the first agricultural news media app for the iPhone – the AgWired iPhone App. The app offers one-touch access to all the latest news and information in the agribusiness and agricultural marketing world posted on Agwired.com, including audio, photos and video, and connections to other ZimmComm news sites. The AgWired App features a news tab drop down menu to select ZimmComm News Network feeds as well as individual news on AgWired by category.

The app is now available for iPhone users to download, free of charge, in the Apple iTunes store. You can find the AgWired App in the iTunes Store with this link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agwired/id382820712?mt=8

Apps just make on-line access from an iPhone quicker and easier. We wanted to be the first to develop an iPhone application to show that it can be done and that there is a demand for this new technology tool in the agricultural world. And of course, the AgWired iPhone App is open for sponsorship. Who wants to be the first?

We’re looking for feedback on our first app. Let us know what you like, don’t like and wish it would do and we’ll try to incorporate your suggestions in a future update. Thanks.

ZimmComm Announcement

Ag Media Summit/ARC Silent Auction

Chuck Zimmerman

Ag Media Summit Silent AuctionA great way to support the Ag Media Summit and Agricultural Relations Council is to get your bid in on the silent auction. There are some great items.

I spoke with Mark Ingbritson who is keeping an eye on the auction area. He says the proceeds are split between ARC and AMS to help out students.

Mark Ingbritson Interview


2010 Ag Media Summit Photo Album

Ag Media Summit, ARC, Audio

Forrest Bassford Student Award To Lisa Brown

Chuck Zimmerman

Lisa BrownThe winner of the Livestock Publications Council Forrest Bassford Award this year is Lisa Brown, Oklahoma State University. The award is sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health. It was presented during the luncheon today at the Ag Media Summit.

The student winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to participate in LPC’s annual convention and now the Ag Media Summit. This award recognizes and rewards excellence, leadership and encourages professionalism among students. This opportunity provides the recipient face-to-face exchanges with leaders in livestock publishing. Forrest Bassford’s name was appended to the LPC Student Award in 1992 in honor of his contribution to LPC, and his particular interest in furthering the Student Award. The overall winner receives a $2,000 scholarship and up to four additional students each receive $750 travel scholarships to attend the convention.


2010 Ag Media Summit Photo Album

Ag Media Summit, LPC

Live Stream of Ag Media Summit

Chuck Zimmerman

The Ag Media Summit is officially underway. Some are out golfing and some of us are attending educational sessions at the hotel.

If you can’t be here with us then some sessions are being live streamed. You can click on the player below to see the current stream.

Want to take in all the information you can from Ag Media Summit, but can’t attend in person? Join the conversation live: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ag-media-summit.

Video clips at Ustream


2010 Ag Media Summit Photo Album

Ag Media Summit

Zimfo Bytes

Melissa Sandfort

    Zimfo Bytes

  • Robert J. Ratliff has been appointed chairman of the board of CVT Corp.
  • Brenda Gilbertson has joined ABS Global as the advertising and promotions manager.
  • Abe Hughes has been named vice president of sales and marketing for New Holland Agriculture in North America (www.newholland.com).
  • With a choice of three openers and eight row widths, the new YP-30 and YP-40 Yield-Pro planters from Great Plains can be almost anything the customer wants them to be.
  • Fastline has introduced a new, faster way to find equipment online through its new mobile website: m.Fastline.com.
    Zimfo Bytes

    International Company Fits Perfectly at Int’l Precision Ag Conference

    John Davis

    The good folks at Leica Geosystems have found plenty to talk about at the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture. And why shouldn’t they? Leica is into precision agriculture systems, and it’s definitely for farms just about anywhere in the world.

    “It’s important for us to be here to show people where Leica comes from [and] our product range,” Rob Kiernan, Leica’s Global Sales and Marketing Manager told me.

    He says while agriculture is different in other parts of the world … some places focus on huge fields, while many farmers work in numbers of acres that you could count on one hand … there is a need to have precision technology, such as Leica offers.

    “If we have the core technology of the GPS, it does benefit agriculture across the regions [of the world]. We’ve always looked at the big fields, but the small fields are equally important.”

    You can hear more of my conversation with Rob by listening to it or downloading it from the player here: Rob Kiernan, Leica Geosystems

    ICPA Photo Album

    Coverage of the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture brought to you on Agwired by leica When it has to be RIGHT!

    Audio, Leica Geosystems, Precision Agriculture

    Ag Media Summit Cruise Winners

    Chuck Zimmerman

    Ag Media SummitThe 2010 Ag Media Summit got off to an official start this weekend. I joined up in time to go on the welcome reception cruise. It was a good one. In fact, I’m kind of at a loss for words how to describe it. So I guess I’ll just have to let the photo album tell the story. We had awards for the best dressed “Minnesotan” and I’ve got them in the photo album including these winners.

    I also caught some of our winners early on the dock before the cruise, getting in the mood.


    2010 Ag Media Summit Photo Album

    Ag Media Summit

    Rolling On The River at AMS

    Chuck Zimmerman

    Ag Media SummitI am ready for some rolling on the river at the Ag Media Summit. Just got in and got registered. Now getting ready for our evening welcome reception.

    Of course I’ve got a photo album started. There will be plenty more added to it in coming days so keep your eye on it and see who you know.

    2010 Ag Media Summit Photo Album

    Ag Media Summit

    Wrapping Up Peanut Conference

    Chuck Zimmerman

    Don Koehler, Executive Director, Georgia Peanut Commission, helped me wrap things up for the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. As of this point in time everyone has a free afternoon before our concluding dinner this evening. I’ll be adding some photos from that event to the photo album. You can also find another set of photos taken by Joy Carter, Georgia Peanut Commission on her photo album with this link.

    Don says the conference attendance has been consistent with previous years in spite of the economy and gulf oil worries. He says farmers are all positive and that’s the best word to describe the conference. The mood is upbeat and even with some areas needing some rain. He’s looking forward to conference number 13 next year. The move to an end of the week program has been very positive so that’s likely to be the schedule next year too. Don Koehler Interview

    Joy and I will be heading north tomorrow to join the Ag Media Summit which is already in progress.

    12th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference Photo Album

    Ag Groups, Audio, Peanuts

    Peanut Farmer Family Tradition

    Chuck Zimmerman

    It’s always good to hear from our presenters and sponsors but what about our growers? Let’s find out what a peanut farmer thinks about the Southern Peanut Growers Conference.

    I spoke with Steve “Beaver” Yoder, Altha, FL. Steve brings his family as many peanut farmers do. They look forward to it as a “tradition” and it shows his children what he does and how he keeps himself informed as a farmer. He sees the conference as a great opportunity to combine some vacation time with a professional improvement conference. He says his peanut crop is off to a good start by the way. That’s what I’m hearing a lot in the hallways.

    Steve Yoder Interview

    12th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference Photo Album

    Ag Groups, Audio, Farming, Peanuts