Indiana FFA Northern Region Vice President Rachel Schmitt and Indiana Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner on their way to visit Congressman Burton in Washington D.C. this morning.
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Hey, I know you!
Two Brownfield Ag News team members are in Washington, D.C. this week. Dave Russell, Ohio Farm Director is traveling with Ohio Farm Bureau and Meghan Grebner, Indiana Farm Director is traveling with Indiana Farm Bureau. D.C. is a big place, but as Meghan said, “I ran into Dave last night. I was at our dinner and Dave was headed to the workroom…. to work….”
Brownfield Mobile gets some upgrades!
Brownfield Mobile, the most comprehensive and user-friendly mobile agriculture information product available today, is getting an upgrade. In the Markets section of Brownfield Mobile, users now have the ability to view all active contracts for a particular commodity.
Users with the Brownfield Mobile smartphone application on the iPhone or Android platforms will have access to more in depth market quote detail, including charts and graphs.
The applications also feature a new interactive weather map with animated radar, allowing users to view weather conditions across the country.
Brownfield Mobile enables farmers to use their mobile smart phones to stay informed about the weather, markets and news important to them. With a rich design and interactivity that leverages the capabilities of today’s mobile devices, Brownfield Mobile offers farmers instant access to customized weather and futures market prices as well as the latest agriculture news. Unlike other mobile applications, Brownfield Mobile features unique audio updates, created exclusively for this product, by the Brownfield Ag News team you know and trust.
The Brownfield Mobile app is available to download, free of charge, in the Apple iTunes store and the Android market. If you are not an iPhone or Android user, simply enter www.BrownfieldMobile.com into the Web browser on your smart phone and bookmark it for easy access.
Brownfield, founded in 1972, includes Brownfield Ag News radio network and Brownfieldagnews.com. Brownfield products provide news, markets, weather, event coverage and feature and commentary programming relevant to those who live and work on farms and in rural communities in the United States, and to those with an interest in U.S. food and fiber production. Brownfield has contractual partnerships with more than 330 affiliate radio stations in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota that carry Brownfield radio programming.
Congratulations Bob Meyer!!
It is not easy to surprise Bob Meyer! Several people (mostly his wife Coni) had been working behind the scenes to find a way to get Bob to the farm show in Marshfield, Wisconsin yesterday where the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce wanted to surprise him with the Central Wisconsin Agri-Business Committee 2012 Friend of Agriculture. Here’s Bob’s story:
I was presented the Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce “2012 Friend of Agriculture” award today. TOTAL surprise and totally set-up. The mall down the street has their annual farm show going on today and tomorrow, yesterday the County Extension agent called to say he wanted to do an interview re: a seminar he has coming up and asked if we could meet at the farm show today to do it. I get to the farm show, there stands Coni and my daughter, Carrie. Coni had told me she was going to be in Marshfield for an appointment and was meeting Carrie for lunch….I asked why they were standing there…”We are waiting to get into the restaurant”. Meanwhile the county agent is nowhere to be seen….I’m standing there…talking to Coni, Carrie, a few other people. The MACCI Executive Director gets on the P.A. to welcome people to the farm show…blah…blah…blah…starts to talk about their annual Friend of Agriculture award…starts reading about the individual…gets to “the youngest of 9”…….WHAT?
The following article from Wisconsin Ag Connection sums it all up:
Farm Broadcaster Bob Meyer Honored by Marshfield Ag Group
A longtime Wisconsin farm broadcaster has been honored by the Central Wisconsin Agri-Business Committee as its 2012 Friend of Agriculture recipient.
Bob Meyer, who is the morning announcer for WDLB Radio in Marshfield, was presented with the award on Wednesday during a surprise ceremony at the Shoppes at Wood Ridge annual farm show.
Meyer is the Wisconsin correspondent for Brownfield Ag News, a radio network that features agricultural programming to over 300 radio stations throughout the Midwest. He is also the announcer at the Central Wisconsin Draft Horse Show each year and served as the media chair for Clark County Farm Technology Days in 2005.
The Central Wisconsin Agri-Business Committee is a part of the Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The group also presented awards to several of the area’s top high school seniors for their work in agriculture.
A good wintertime read
I was fascinated by this book. After reading a recommendation for this book on Facebook from Cindy Cunningham of the National Pork Board, I went to our local library and picked up The Children’s Blizzard.
I read it on the plane while traveling to and from Nashville for the Cattle Industry Convention.
Warning—once you start reading, it’s hard to put down.
It’s the story of the ferocious blizzard of January 12, 1888 that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers, including more than a hundred children in the Dakotas and Nebraska as they tried to make their way home from school.
If you live on a farm or ranch—or if you grew up on one—I think you will find this to be a dramatic, heartbreaking, and haunting story. It’s also offers an interesting description of the very early days of weather forecasting in the U.S.
Can you imagine what life was like in the Midwest and Great Plains without radio, TV, newspaper or Internet to keep us informed on the weather?
After reading The Children’s BIizzard, I now have even greater respect for the brave, hardy souls that settled the American frontier.
– Ken Anderson
Wisconsin Agribusiness Tour
Brownfield’s Wisconsin-based farm broadcaster Bob Meyer is back in the studio today after a week “on the road.” He checked in this morning:
I spent four days this week with Brownfield account executives Jill Makovec and Jeff Moore visiting agribusinesses from Grassland Dairy Products in Greenwood to the Case IH plant at Racine. In all, 15 stops and 26 interviews. The thing that always amazes me is just how big some of these operations are, for example: Grassland Dairy will handle six million pounds of milk per day making it the largest milk-intake in Wisconsin. The Case IH plant has added a second shift, 350 new employees to handle the demand for Magnum and New Holland T8000 tractors..and 40 percent of the tractors they make are exported. On Wednesday we spent a fair amount of time talking with folks at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; while these agencies are often the target of criticism, they are staffed by people who go out of their way to do whatever they can to help farmers and others. To sum it up, Wisconsin agriculture is vast, diverse and has a bright future!
-Bob Meyer
The Wisconsin Agribusiness Tour was sponsored by WIsconsin Corn Growers Association.
(Pictured left to right: Jeff Moore, Bob Meyer and Jill Makovec)
Bob also wanted to make sure we all knew, that although he was the one doing the interviews and reporting from the road, he wasn’t the real star of the show.
”Here is a picture of the message monitor when we arrived at AEM’s office yesterday. . .”
Reports, interviews and photos from the 2012 Wisconsin Agribusiness Tour are featured on the Brownfield website.
Recognize this guy?
It’s Brownfield’s Ken Anderson at the microphone 30 years ago. I don’t think he’s changed much at all!
Seen at the Ohio Pork Producers Taste of Elegance
Dave Russell covered the Ohio Pork Producers Taste of Elegance Tuesday night for Brownfield Ag News. We all got a chuckle out of this photo he shared:
Jonathon Bennett , Chef at Moxie the Restaurant in Cleveland was wearing it and needless to say it generated a lot of interest, especially to those of us old enough to remember Grandma cooking with lard.
-Dave
Learning about Indiana agriculture.
From Indiana Brownfield Farm Director Meghan Grebner:
I spent a couple of hours this afternoon at the Pine Tree Elementary School in Avon, Ind. for their Ag Day. The gym had ten different learning stations for the kids to learn about Indiana agriculture. Wade Ostrander was teaching the kids about pollination process in corn.
Here are a few shot to take you through that lesson:
There were also learning stations for kids on aquaculture, watermelon, pork, soybeans, dairy, popcorn, tomatoes and even one on auctioneering.
This is the third event like this – the agriculture community has also brought farm machinery and animals to Pine Tree… All with the goal of developing a bond with the students and agriculture.
The outhouse
From Brownfield’s Jerry Passer:
I discovered this outhouse in working condition at a 150 year old church and cemetery in Linn County, Iowa recently. Yes it still is used during funerals and when the church is locked. Pretty fancy compared to the ones I remember.
-Passer