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By my count this makes the 39th posting on AgriMarketing Pros from the NAMA convention. They include 30 pictures, 2 interviews and many links to the companies and people mentioned!

I hope this will provide you with some ideas about what you can do with the blog format. Additionally, I hope it will provide you with some ideas for how ZimmComm can work for you.

Besides our Talking News Release service, we now have our blog, focused on the business of agrimarketing, and offer blogging services. These are very unique tools you can use to enhance your communications efforts.

Want us to blog your convention or meeting? Call me and let’s talk. If it’s ag-related I will gladly post informative pictures, audio, video, news and announcements right here on AgriMarketing Pros. Or, we can write for your blog.

The NAMA convention is just now coming to an end. I want to congratulate Eldon and his staff for another fantastic job. It’s the first time ZimmComm has exhibited at the Trade Show and we intend to do so again next year. We’ve got a number of creative ideas for our exhibit next time around.

I hope you like what you’ve seen and heard here on the web’s only blog targeting the agrimarketing profession. Send me your ideas and feedback. They’re always welcome.

A tradition at the NAMA convention is the Brownfield Network party, carried on in fine fashion last night. I know many of you have been to a Brownfield party.

Write to me or post a comment about your favorite one and why.

Was it last night? Was it at the Adam’s Mark in St. Louis when they imported the Bruise Brothers from Chicago? Was it the Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville?

Here’s our hosts this year. Nice green shirts!

Purdue University was the NAMA student marketing competition winning team. Their product was Edgewood Pig Pad. Advisors were Dr. Christine Wilson and Dr. Jay Akridge.

The other finalists were:

2nd Place: Michigan State
3rd Place: Ohio State
4th Place: University of Wisconsin-Madison
5th Place: University of Tennessee
6th Place: Kansas State

Jim Jones, Ayres Kahler, and Jon Peterson, Swanson Russell Associates were a couple of the proud owners of a custom “I’ve been blogged” t-shirt compliments of AgriMarketing Pros.

The student competition finals are still taking place and to make it easier to watch a “simulcast” of the presentations was set up in the convention center lobby.

This is a great idea, where you could sit and watch your favorite team compete. The winners will be announced at the Trade Show concluding session this evening and I’ll have it posted as soon as I can.

Getting your email is essential these days. Thanks to Farm Journal Media and Broadhead+Co and UPI, we have the internet cafe. These computers got a workout during the convention.

The Best of NAMA, Best of Show winners are first published in Agri Marketing, which is also distributed at the convention. You can also see the complete results of the awards in the April issue.

The Best of Show: Advertising was won by IGENITY, Merial, Agency, Bader-Rutter.

The Best of Show: Public Relations was won by West Central Co-op’s, Agency, Innova Ideas & Services.

The Best of Show: Specialty was won by Pfizer Animal Health, Agency, Brown & Associates.

That’s what you’d find out at the opening general session at the NAMA convention. The keynote speaker is Oren Hararii, author of a number of books including, “The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell.” Oren is still speaking and I hope to interview him when he’s done. I’m sure his presentation is being recorded by NAMA and can be accessed after the convention.

Sarah Vacek, Monsanto, chaired this year’s Agri-Marketing Conference committee which included Lauri Christen, Colle+McVoy, Vice Chair and other NAMA members in a variety of business types.

Sarah has put together an outstanding program with her committee this year and needs your congratulations.