Pioneer Forage Forum Podcast

Cindy Zimmerman

Pioneer Hi-Bred International is now on its third year of podcasting the Forage Forum on World Dairy Diary and the Pioneer Growing Point website. We just posted podcast number 30 on the websites today.

Pioneer Hi-Bred Forage Forum PodcastForage Forum features “news and information important to dairy professionals working for successful animal nutrition.” It’s kind of interesting that a seed company provides this kind of service for dairy producers – and that is the topic of this week’s podcast as Dr. Bill Mahanna, coordinator of global nutritional sciences for Pioneer discusses to company’s integrated forage approach and the expertise available to producers.

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Bill Mahanna on Integrated Forage Program (4:30 min MP3)

To see all archived Pioneer Forage Forum podcasts, click here.
Previous Forage Forum podcasts are also archived at the Pioneer GrowingPoint website. To access them, go to www.pioneer.com/growingpoint and click “Livestock Nutrition” and “Forage Blog.”

Dairy, Pioneer, Podcasts

Planning IFAJ/AMS 2009

Chuck Zimmerman

IFAJ/AMS MeetingThe dedicated IFAJ/AMS planning committee is meeting early this morning to continue planning for the 2009 combined IFAJ Congress and Ag Media Summit. We’ve been reviewing the program and fine tuning things.

Sponsorship packets are almost ready and will be published soon. For those of you who have been AMS sponsors, keep in mind that in 2009 we’re going to be having hundreds of international agricultural journalists coming to the event.

My little part is the IFAJ 2009 Congress website which is up and running. If anyone would like to help, please let me know. Right now I’m seeking input and feedback on the site.

ACN, IFAJ, LPC, NAMA

Missing Southeast AgNet

Chuck Zimmerman

Southeast AgNetOne of our NAMA Connection Point exhibitors will not be able to make the convention this year. That’s Southeast AgNet, a ZimmComm client. Gary and Robin are spending time with Robin’s Mom who is gravely ill. They sure wish they could be here but they know what’s most important.

So, thanks to their rep firm, Farmakis, you’ll still find information in the trade show. Gary sent along this message:

We appreciate our Farmakis national sales team for setting up and manning our exhibit this year! And we appreciate everyone’s thoughts, prayers and support during this critical time.

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ZimmComm NAMA iPod touch Drawing

Chuck Zimmerman

ZimmComm NAMA iPod touch DrawingHere at the NAMA Convention you can get registered to win an iPod touch at the ZimmComm booth in the trade show which opens this evening. But since we’re a “community” here at AgWired I want you to have the opportunity to participate too.

So all you have to do is click on this image which you’ll also find in the top right side of the AgWired homepage. You’ll be asked to enter your contact info and that’s it.

So get yourself in the drawing for the coolest iPod on the market. We’ll announce the winner here, after the convention.

Post Update: Willie Vogt, Farm Progress Companies was our winner.

2008 Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album

NAMA

Guess Whose Boots

Chuck Zimmerman

Guess Whose BootsThese boots were seen walking in the Hyatt last night although I took this picture last week in Iowa.

So the first person to post the correct answer to the question in comments will receive a hot-off-the-press “I’ve been Blogged” t-shirt from AgWired.

If you have trouble I’ll add clues later but I’ve got a feeling this one will go quick.

Good Luck. The winner is Mike Howie!

2008 Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album

NAMA

CQ Journalist Wins Ag Journalist of the Year Award

Laura McNamara

The North American Agricultural Journalists have named their standout reporter for 2007. Congressional Quarterly‘s Catharine Richert is the recipient of this year’s Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year Award.

Richert became eligible for the prize when she won the organization’s award for best news story of 2007 for her CQ Weekly cover story “Reshaping the Farm Agenda.” She has been Congressional Quarterly’s agriculture reporter since 2006 and has written about everything from the stalled Doha trade talks to farmers who trade carbon credits to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

“The reporter ‘surrounded’ the topic, covering a variety of viewpoints and enriching the story,” judge Tim Anderson, news-editorial lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said in evaluating Richert’s magazine story. “The writing, too, was first-rate.”

Ag Groups, Agribusiness, Media

Food Trees Feed Support For “Men in Trees,” Feed Poor

Laura McNamara

Just another example of how food affects life here and abroad: from saving television shows to feeding the world’s poor…

“Men in Trees” fans from around the world have been fighting to save their favorite show with contributions of more than 7,000 food trees planted in impoverished countries. They call the campaign “Plant It Forward.” The trees were collected by a group on the ABC message board, and planted through the non-profit organization Trees For Life International, which has sent each fan a certificate of donation. The collected certificates were delivered to Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment.

Their campaign aims to address the issues of world hunger and the environment while, at the same time, convincing ABC to renew “Men in Trees” for a third season. “Seven-thousand food trees can produce up to 1.75 million pounds of food each year,” reported Sally Johnston, a campaign coordinator. “That’s 70 million pounds of food over the lifetime of the trees and a lot of fresh air.”

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NAMA Convention Underway

Chuck Zimmerman

NAMA ConventionThe NAMA Convention has begun, golfers are probably at the 19th hole and registration is open.

As this sign shows there are a number of us member companies providing support in various ways.

The convention photo album has been started and will be added to periodically over the coming days so make sure you check it often: 2008 Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album

See you around.

NAMA

Zimfo Bytes

Melissa Sandfort

    Zimfo Bytes

  • John Deere announces an agreement with IRON Solutions to align and integrate product offerings to assist John Deere agricultural equipment dealers in evaluating and pricing used equipment. This collaboration will facilitate and streamline the machine listing process and enhance the accuracy of equipment valuations. The UsedXpress and www.machinefinder.com remarketing systems will be able to integrate broad equipment market intelligence data available in the IRON Solutions Official Guides.
  • Bayer CropScience LP and Monsanto Company entered into an exclusive agreement on a new cutting-edge fungicide seed treatment for corn. The treatment, which is expected to be commercialized in conjunction with the planned launch of Monsanto’s SmartStax™ seed offering in 2010, will provide corn farmers with a significant improvement in early-season protection against seedling diseases and insects.
  • Bader Rutter, an integrated marketing services agency based in Brookfield, Wis., has added two new associates to its account management group. Margie Albrecht has returned to the agency as a team leader. Erin Simon joins Bader Rutter as an assistant account executive.
Zimfo Bytes

AgWired Mobile Feedback

Chuck Zimmerman

AgWired MobileEarly feedback on AgWired Mobile is rolling in. Here’s a few samples.

You guys are amazing!

Great idea! I just signed up.

This is pretty dang cool!

Looks great, Chuck. I’m sure this will be a big hit.

I just signed up for the text service. Great idea!

Some questions have been posed, so let me answer a few of them.

We’re going to be pretty selective about what stories we post to AgWired Mobile. The number of daily messages will vary but I’m guessing that it would average about 4 or 5 a day. This week we may send more due to the NAMA Convention. We realize that some people may have a limited text message plan but that’s changing fast. Most carriers offer a low cost unlimited everything plan today so we don’t think we’ll be breaking the bank on messages.

The messages are limited to 165 characters so it’s mainly going to be headlines and when possible, a link to more information.

We’re targeting AgWired Mobile to the same audience as AgWired.com. That has always been the professional in agricultural marketing (commodity groups, agencies, media, agribusiness) keeping in mind that we’re reaching a lot of farmers too. Heck, farmers are agrimarketers aren’t they? We also reach a lot of consumers. If you look around the web you’ll find AgWired content on a lot of websites of all kinds. That’s why it’s so unreliable anymore to just measure reach on site visitors. That doesn’t include all the other places the content is showing up!

Please make sure you’ve got us on your news release/announcement list too. Send ’em to news@agwired.com.

Keep the feedback coming. I’m heading to KC, MO very shortly and look forward to hearing your thoughts there as well.

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