It’s time for the NAMA Agribusiness Forum. I’ll be the NAMA blogger once again this year but don’t arrive until tomorrow.
In case you missed a recent ZimmCast with the Chairman of this year’s conference you can still find it.
It’s going to be a good program and once again overlaps with the NAFB Convention. Maybe I’ll see you there.
I’m not back to regular office hours yet. Give me another day or so. But I do have internet access so you do get a ZimmCast this week.
In this week’s program you’ll hear from Gary Truitt, Hoosier Ag Today. Gary just got started with his new venture recently and he’s got a website, radio network and has started podcasting.
I interviewed Gary at his office in Indianapolis on a recent trip and learned more about what he’s doing and what he thinks the future holds.
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My nephew came up with the title for this post.
We’re at our hunting camp and will be here for a few more days until it’s time to head to Kansas City.
For those who are wondering I think this picture speaks for itself.
It’s been a great opening day out here and the weather has been beautiful.
The online world continues to grow. This time it’s Syngenta with another website. This one’s for their AgriEdge program.
Growers and retailers can use a new national web site, www.AgriEdge.com, to learn more about maximizing yields and minimizing risk with the AgriEdge™ Corn and AgriEdge Soybean programs from Syngenta. Customized by state, the national site details the broad range of crop production technologies and services and industry-leading risk management assurances that characterize the AgriEdge programs.
“The AgriEdge web site puts all the resources of the program at retailers’ and growers’ fingertips,” said Rex Wichert, Agribusiness Marketing Manager at Syngenta. “With a simple mouse-click, growers can see how participating in the AgriEdge programs can help them optimize yields, manage risk and integrate flexible agronomic solutions that best fit their particular farming challenges.”
I am getting ready to head to the woods as I warned you about last week. This means very light posting until next Wednesday. Almost a whole week! Whoo hoo.
If you want to learn more about what I’ll be doing please feel free to visit the Missouri Department of Conservation website.
I’ll have my camera and I hope I’ll have something to share with you over the next several days.
Looking ahead to next week, I’ll be posting from the NAMA Agribusiness Forum and the NAFB convention in Kansas City. So until soon . . .
Cyndi Young has been busy interviewing growers about their harvest progress.
“Listen to audio harvest reports and harvest progress updates from Pioneer agronomists in your local area and across the country.”
You’ll find them on the Pioneer website.
It looks like Osborn & Barr is doing more online work for its clients. At least I hope so if they’re adding so many people to the staff! I wonder if any of them are blogging. If so, let me know.
This year brought significant changes to the marketing services Osborn & Barr is able to offer to its clients. The newly created Digital Marketing group provides O&B clients with interactive capabilities that enhance client brand strategy beyond traditional marketing communications. The employees within the Digital Marketing team bring expertise from various areas of Web development and online communications.
Susan Williams joins Osborn & Barr with an extensive background in managing product development in the media, manufacturing and energy industries. Her expertise serves clients such as John Deere, United Soybean Board and Monsanto. As digital marketing supervisor, Susan’s responsibilities include overseeing the development of digital marketing, Web and e-mail marketing projects, supervising the digital marketing design and development team and participating in new business opportunities. Most recently, Susan worked as global project manager for Reuters America, where she was responsible for the developing the Web presence of the international multimedia news agency. Susan graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri with a bachelor of journalism degree.
In her role as online media and optimization manager, Allison Garriga is responsible for managing the search engine marketing program, which includes implementing both organic and paid search campaigns. She brings extensive professional knowledge from her work as account manager for Avenue A/Razorfish, where she managed numerous paid search accounts and the affiliate marketing program. Allison is a graduate of Drake University where she majored in advertising and minored in Spanish. Read More
It’s never too soon to look forward to food on Thanksgiving. The folks at All Recipes have some great information for you if you have any questions. I’ll be doing some gourmet cooking at hunting camp later this week and sharpening my skills in time to whip up a holiday feast at the Zimmerman home.
To help America’s intrepid home cooks achieve the most relaxing holiday possible, the experts at Allrecipes.com have created full, customizable menus perfect for both seasoned Thanksgiving veterans and those new to hosting a turkey day extravaganza. Both categories offer multiple, tried-and-true recipe ideas, including Easy Herb-Roasted Turkey, Savory Turkey Gravy, Holiday-Only Mashed Potatoes, Sauteed Green Beans and Pumpkin Cheesecake in a Gingersnap Crust, preparation timelines and tips that range from how to brine a turkey to the secret to perfect potatoes. All of which will ensure that the only stress you experience on the big day is deciding who gets the last piece of pie, which of course defaults to the cook.
It looks like Hubbard Feeds has a new website.
This website is intended as a comprehensive resource for the niche pork or beef producer who doesn’t want to use antibiotics or rendered animal proteins in their feeds. “The new site will offer a broad range of product information for the enterprising producer that is taking advantage of key niche markets and developing alternatives to the traditional commodity system of selling pork and beef,” says Dr. Robert Musser, head of the Hubbard Feeds swine nutrition team. Homesteadfeeds.com offers product information for every segment of pork and beef production as well as background information on Opticare products.
“ The new Homestead website reflects our continued commitment to offer our customers a wide range of nutrition products that deliver performance including complete feeds, concentrates, basemixes and premixes,” said Musser. “Niche value-added pork and beef production is growing and consumers are looking for more products that are perceived as more wholesome. We decided to create a specific feeding program that helps the producer raise and feed livestock under the strict growing guidelines of niche markets.”
I finally caught up with Jim Wessing, Kondex Corporation this afternoon after our session.
Jim is the immediate past president now of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association. I spoke with him about what FEMA is and what benefits it offers its members. There’s a lot of work this very small staff does out of St. Louis!
Jim said that in the last year the organization has added 84 new member companies and that 31 of them had representatives here at the convention.
Listen to my interview with Jim: fema-06-wessing.mp3
