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Interim Youth Programs Assistant Joins Holstein Association and Holstein Foundation.

Blough will serve as the Interim Youth Programs Assistant for the Holstein Association and Holstein while Program Specialist, Kelli Dunklee is on leave. Blough will assist with the National Junior Holstein Convention, the National Dairy Bowl and National Jeopardy programs. She will also coordinate the Distinguished Junior Member Program and oversee the National Junior Advisory Committee.

Summer intern announcements are popping up everywhere.

McNett Named Communications Intern at Select Sires Inc.

PLAIN CITY, Ohio, June 7, 2005 – Crystal McNett, Belmont, Wis., has been selected as the summer communications intern for Select Sires, Plain City, Ohio. Her responsibilities include developing the 2006 breeding calendar for customers, assisting with media-relations activities and working on other communications projects. From May through August she will be based in the Select federation’s headquarters office in Plain City.

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Summer Intern, Interim Youth Programs Assistant Join Holstein Association and Holstein Foundation

Webb is the 2005 Youth Programs/Education Intern for the Holstein Foundation and Holstein Association. She will assist with the preparation and coordination of youth activities held during the National Junior Holstein Convention in Portland, Maine. She will also prepare post-convention press releases, as well as assist in the development of educational materials for Junior Holstein members.

It was a tag team match today at the Missouri Ag Leaders Luncheon. Cyndi Young, farm director for the Brownfield Network and I did a presentation on Blogging 101 (including RSS, Podcasting and webinars) for about 30 people.

As I’ve found over and over now, people have a growing level of awareness and curiosity about blogging and all the features that have been associated with it. We had good questions like “how much memory do you need on your server?” and “Is it real hardware intensive?” and “where can I find blogs about farming?” The answers to those are “very little unless you post lots of graphics, audio and video” “not hardware intensive since all you need is the online computer you already have” “Google for farm blogs”

Blogging live from the Missouri Ag Leaders Luncheon. This is for my demonstation.

Actually this post was started during today’s lunch presentation of the Missouri Ag Leaders Luncheon group. I just thought I’d come back and add in this photo. I’ll have more later today too.

Sometimes you just have to take a little time off for a good cause. Yesterday that was the Missouri Farm Bureau Foundation For Agriculture golf tournament at Sycamore Creek.

I played with Nip Neidert and Steve Taylor in the afternoon session. It rained there all morning but they still got the first round in. Here’s what Missouri Farm Bureau Federation president, Charlie Kruse has to say about the Foundation on their website:

Building a Foundation for Agriculture

I thank all those who have been so generous and encourage anyone interested in maintaining a strong and viable agriculture to consider a tax-deductible gift to the Missouri Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

By the way, Nip, Steve and I got second place!!