Hello ZimmComm Fans: It has been another crazy weather week between the sort of hurricane in the south and continued hot and dry to the north. Hopefully the remnants of Isaac will bring some much needed rain to areas that need it. The ZimmComm Team has been out and about this week. Chuck and Cindy spent most of the week …
ZimmNews – August 24, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: It’s Agvocacy time as in the 2012 Agvocacy 2.0 Conference in Kansas City, MO. This is the third annual agvocacy training conference put on by the AgChat Foundation. We’ve got a new crop of passionate farmers learning how to use social media to tell their story. Some are there to hone their skills since they are already …
ZimmNews – August 17, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: The annual International Federation of Agricultural Journalists Congress is taking place in Sweden and Chuck is there courtesy of our long time sponsor for this event, Dupont Pioneer. He’s already got a lot of photos online for your viewing pleasure. While Chuck is in Sweden Cindy visited Collinsville, IL for a Respect the Rotation event with Bayer …
ZimmNews — July 27, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: Chuck is Denver right now doing some Beef Board Blogging for the Cattlemen’s Beef Board at the Cattle Industry Sumer Conference. You can find his photos here and follow him on Twitter – @AgriBlogger. Cindy just returned to ZimmComm World Headquarters from the Raven Innovation Summit in Sioux Falls, SD. You can find her photos here and …
ZimmNews — July 20, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: We’ve been having a cornfest on AgWired lately. Between Chuck’s interviews from the Indian Creek Watershed Project Field Tour, Wyffels Hybrids Corn Strategies, FMC Anthem Plot Tour and the International Conference on Precision Agriculture you can find lots of interviews pertaining to corn and lots of photos from these events. This week he’s also attending the Bayer …
ZimmNews – July 13, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: The temps may be lower in the midwest but as Chuck saw first hand this week the dry weather continues. He started out on the Indian Creek Watershed Project Field Tour north of Bloomington, IL where the corn looks bad. From there he went to NW Iowa for the Wyffels Hybrids Corn Strategies and saw some very …
ZimmNews – July 6, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: The ZimmComm team wishes we could send some of the rain we’ve been receiving at our new world headquarters to the midwest. Our prayers are with all the people suffering from the heat and dry weather. Chuck will get to visit some of that heat this week when he travels to Illinois for the Conservation Technology Information …
ZimmNews – June 29, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: It has been a hot one on the agriblogging highway as Chuck has traveled to Minneapolis for the NAMA Executive Committee Meeting and then on to Des Moines for the John Deere FarmSight Tech Summit. Maybe things will cool down a little for the holiday week coming up. Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Will you buy …
ZimmNews – June 22, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: This week Chuck is spending some time getting to know the American Seed Trade Association which is holding its 129th Annual Convention! If you are not familiar with ASTA, follow his coverage on AgWired. You can find photos from the convention here. Next week he’ll be back on the road attending a NAMA Executive Committee Mtg. in …
ZimmNews – June 15, 2012
Hello ZimmComm Fans: A big congratulations to the AgChat Foundation for Thursday’s Twive and Receive event. And a big thank you goes out to the 78 Twivers who gave a total of $6,830 in the one day event. The Foundation placed 12th on the list of hundreds of participating charities. This event was successful because of the highly motivated and …