The winning video in the Alpharma Student Video Contest was produced by the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’ll try to update this post with a video embed once it’s on YouTube.
Alpharma Inc., Animal Health has announced that students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the $5,000 grand prize winner of the 2008 Alpharma Student Video Contest. Second and third place was awarded to students from the University of Florida and the University of Arizona, each receiving $2,000 and $1,000, respectively, for their efforts.
he video contest began earlier this fall as college agriculture students from across the country were asked to compile short video clips related to food production. Students received a $25 gift card for each video accepted, up to 10. More than 150 clips were uploaded to the contest Web site. In the second phase of the contest, students were asked to compile these clips, along with their own footage, to complete a video telling a story about how food is produced. Five videos were submitted to the contest and voted on by participants and the public. More than 7,000 votes were cast by the time voting ended on December 19th.
Video titles and submitting universities are as follows:
· Today’s Agriculture – University of Florida
· Beef: Our Priority – University of Arizona
· Myth or Fact!? – Ohio Northern University
· Antibiotics in the Dairy Industry – University of Tennessee
· OatS – University of Wisconsin-Madison
The year is trucking right along and in this week’s program we keep on trucking with ZimmCast #200. To keep with the trucking theme the program has an interview with Ron Lang, John Deere, who is the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show driver. I’m going a regular feature for the project called the 
Ron has a great anecdote about meeting up with a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper who as it turns out just had some questions about John Deere Equipment after seeing Ron’s big old truck roll by.
Eco friendliness is “in” when it comes to Christmas/New Year’s cards. Take this one from 
A holiday favorite of mine is the Carol of the Chins. I’ve already had them sing The First Noel and Silent Night.
It is more than a little cold here in mid Missouri and all you have to do is look at the river to see how much. The ice is forming and by tomorrow I’ll bet the river is frozen all the way across. I’m glad I wasn’t at the KC Chiefs game today!
What list of holiday greetings would be complete without an Elf Yourself?
It’s Happy Holidays from The Hondo Group. Nicely done.
It’s time to take an agriblogging break. But first I thought I’d let you farm podcasters know about a couple new products you might want to check out.
One I’ve got on my iPhone is the