Stories Collection

  1. * Jay Vroom, former executive vice president of the Merchants Exchange of St. Louis,...
  2. The Potash & Phosphate Institute, Norcross, Ga., announces that Michael Wilson, ...
  3. Cerexagri Inc., King of Prussia, Pa., promotes Barney Gallagher to general manager o...
  4. In the November / December 2003 issue, the Agency News section announced the new cli...
  5. ARIZONA Yuma, AZ NAFB KJOK 1400 ...
  6. AGRA PLACEMENTS LTD, 2200 N. Kickapoo, Suite 2, Lincoln, IL 62656; 217/73...
  7. Fashioned after the Best of NAMA awards, the first Best of CAMA (Canadian Agri-Marke...
  8. Happy New Year! What an incredible start to the new year ... and what a finish to th...
  9. Syngenta Seeds, Golden Valley, Minn., will launch eAGVISOR, a free monthly e-mail bu...
  10. For four years running, Cargill employees and customers around the world have seen a...
  11. Avant Marketing Group, the strategic marketing planning and brand-management consult...
  12. DECEMBER DEC. 2-3: Texas Plant Protection Conference, College Station, Texas. ...
  13. Farm Progress Companies Inc., Carol Stream, Ill., announces the appointment of Jeff ...
  14. In an effort to heighten awareness of E85 fuel, Tom Andrews, all amateur runner from...
  15. These are just a couple of the many questions posed by Successful Farming and Agricu...
  16. Editor's Note: In the last of a three-part series on changing agricultural media str...
  17. International seed breeding company Enza Zaden of Holland purchases the breeding pro...
  18. Wayne Bollum, Northfield, Minn., was elected to serve the Livestock Publications Cou...
  19. Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B), St. Louis, announces three additions to ...
  20. In December 2003, Doane Marketing Research will deliver the fourth-quarter findings ...
  21. Bill Wernimont, well-known agrimarketer and founder/partner of Wernimont & Paull...
  22. [GRAPHICS OMITTED] STOCK PRICE AT CLOSE OF MARKET ...
  23. AGCO Corp., Duluth, Ga., agrees to acquire the tractor business of Valtra Corporatio...
  24. Jenny Pickett at the NAMA office asked me to write this column over three weeks ago....
  25. CNH Global N.V., Lake Forest, Ill., and Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc. (Cat Log...
  26. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) hires Tamara McCann Thies, Esq., as...
  27. Ron Scherer & Company, Columbia, Ill., is selected by Pro Brands LLC as its mark...
  28. Who doesn't get all warm and fuzzy when you see a label like "Heritage Acres&qu...
  29. Michael Mack, president of Syngenta Crop Protection Inc., assumed the role of chairm...
  30. Five Years Ago * Monsanto Co., St. Louis, and American Home Products Corp. (AHP...
  31. Orion Samuelson of WGN/Chicago joined with the ranks of singing cowboy Gene Autry, n...
  32. NAMA has announced a liaison with the Agricultural Speakers Network, Inc. This agree...
  33. Rabobank International, the corporate and investment banking arm of The Netherlands-...
  34. The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, Greenwich, Conn., (APPMA) is no...
  35. Hormel Foods, Austin, Minn., retains The Meyocks Group, West Des Moines, Iowa, to ha...
  36. Merial, Duluth, Ga., will be marketing a new cattle DNA testing service under the IG...
  37. Achieva Inc., Zionsville, Ind., announces that Sara Wyant has joined the firm as dir...
  38. Marketers have always relied on free publicity to further enhance their company's co...
  39. Farm radio sales directors, station managers and agrimarketers attending the 2003 Na...
  40. When you ask Vicki Henrickson, associate media director for McCormick Company, how s...
  41. Waconia Manufacturing, Waconia, Wis., appoints Rob Henderson to the position of sale...
  42. Southern Illinois University Carbondale was recently awarded a $487,000 grant from t...
  43. NKH&W, Kansas City, Mo., promotes three of its current employees and adds nine t...
  44. DuPont, Wilmington, Del., and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Ene...
  45. The creation of Syngenta Seed's "Born To Farm" advertising campaign was in...
  46. I've said this before, but it certainly is worth repeating. The farm broadcast indus...
  47. One obstacle in farm broadcasting today is knowledge of the medium and how to proper...
  48. Lions and tigers and bears? Oh my! Cloned cows and GMO crops and endangered livestoc...
  49. Braes Feed Ingredients (BFI), Wheeling, Ill., announces that Carl Dern has joined BF...
  50. The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA), St. Louis, elects officers for 2004 and...
  51. Blacksheep Strategy Inc., a western Canadian strategic marketing consultancy, hires ...
  52. Learfield Communications Inc., owner of the Brownfield Network, has signed a letter ...
  53. IMC Global Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., announces that John J. Ferguson, president and c...
  54. Farm radio is facing many challenging issues today. One issue that usually doesn't w...
  55. Monsanto, St. Louis, is teaming up with industry leaders such as General Motors and ...
  56. Emergent Genetics, Boulder, Colo., announces a new organizational structure to move ...
  57. Doane Agricultural Services, St. Louis, announces the appointments of Dan Manternach...
  58. Mike Karst is named a partner of Entira, a food and agribusiness management consulti...
  59. Lely USA Inc. and Vermeer Manufacturing form a new strategic alliance to market Lely...
  60. Makhteshim Agan of North America Inc., (MANA) appoints Gary Scharf as the company's ...
  61. AM: What is the top issue facing you as president of NAFB in 2004? I ran for of...
  62. Broadcasters attending the NAFB annual convention will receive a complete review of ...
  63. Dr. Mark C. Trimmer is named vice president of research and development by Nutra-Par...
  64. Primedia Business Magazines and Media, Minneapolis, Minn., changes the name of AgriC...
  65. Osborn & Burr Communications, St. Louis, announces several new additions and pro...
  66. Ridley Inc. has agreed to sell the business and key assets of its swine genetics ope...
  67. Eighteen university dairy judging teams from across the United States traveled to Vi...
  68. The theme that Jeff Nalley chose for this year's convention, "NAFB: A Voice for...
  69. Editor's Note: Agri Marketing recently spoke with five market research managers abou...
  70. Merial, Duluth, Ga., names James Van Proosdy as senior director of marketing, North ...
  71. Farm Progress Companies, Carol Stream, Ill., appoints four new editors to staff e-co...
  72. The mission of the Red River Farm Network (RRFN), an ag radio network serving 14 mar...
  73. Seminis, the world's largest developer, producer and marketer of fruit and vegetable...
  74. Great Lakes Hybrids (GLH), Ovid, Mich., awarded farmer Kevin Peruski of Ubly, Mich.,...
  75. Genencor International Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., has been named by Cargill Dow LLC, M...
  76. C.M. Holtzinger Fruit Company, Yakima, Wash., and CF Fresh, Sedro-Woolley, Wash., fo...
  77. Merial, Duluth, Ga., names Bader Rutter & Associates, Brookfield, Wis., as its a...
  78. Editor's Note: Alan Townsend is the vice president and general manager of Trimble's ...
  79. Igene Biotechnology Inc., Columbia, Md., has settled a lawsuit with Archer Daniels M...
  80. Reinke, a leading manufacturer of mechanized irrigation systems, announced Royce Mem...
  81. ACH Food Companies Inc., a Memphis, Tenn.-based subsidiary of Associated British Foo...
  82. While fierce debates have raged for and against new country-of-origin labeling (COOL...
  83. Primedia Business Magazines and Media, Minneapolis, appoints Greg Frey as publisher ...
  84. The best-laid plans from marketing and communications to sales and distribution will...
  85. Richard Olmsted is named vice president and general manager of Farm Market iD, Wesmo...
  86. Maintaining professional relationships is the biggest value that Scott Whitman, MWI ...
  87. Early tabulations of the Commercial Producer project by Purdue University / Top Prod...
  88. Editor's Note: Dix Harper provides his perspective from his 50-plus years of marketi...
  89. Plantigen Inc., London, Ontario, signs a collaborative research agreement with Calga...
  90. Lindsay Manufacturing, Omaha, Neb., appoints Ingvard Find as regional sales director...
  91. In the mid-1990s, researchers with the USDA's Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS) b...
  92. Heartland Communications Group Inc., Fort Dodge, Iowa, names Roger Sanders as a dire...
  93. G&S DELIVERS PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERTISE Gibbs & Soell Public Relations,...
  94. Becker Underwood, Ames, Iowa, hires John Wilke as product manager for its Seed Enhan...
  95. The Southwest Chapter has faced many challenges over the years. Lately, chapter lead...
  96. BASF, Research Triangle Park, N.C., has sold the compound acifluorfen to United Phos...
  97. Jean Eckman joins Johnson Krumwiede Roads, Minneapolis, as media director, from free...
  98. Pro Brands Ltd., a new animal health company based in North Platte, Neb., will offer...
  99. Troops stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, received a sweet surprise from home--more than 30...
  100. Imagine for a moment that you are sitting behind your computer and realize that, ins...
  101. You may have noticed new advertisements running in farm magazines and on TV and radi...
  102. The year 2001 marked the beginning of a new generation of post-emergence herbicides ...
  103. Dairy Marketing Services (DMS) and Land O'Lakes Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., form an ag...
  104. The U.S. Grains Council, Washington, D.C., elects a new 14-person board of directors...
  105. International Oilseed Distributors Inc. of Iowa, a subsidiary of Stine Seed Company,...
  106. The Context Network, West Des Moines, Iowa, hires Nathan Ramsey as business analyst....
  107. The following are new NAMA members as of July 29, 2003. BADGER Nikki Winc...
  108. Nearly 450 dealers, customers and growers turned out for Latham Seeds' Field Day, wh...
  109. Farm-grown fashions have hit the runways across the globe, but not in the way you mi...
  110. Consolidation in agribusiness and the radio industry ... Fifty percent drop in agri-...
  111. For Syngenta, the new millennium meant not only new beginnings but also a new compan...
  112. Exelixis Inc., South San Francisco, Calif., announces the extension of its mechanism...
  113. Doug Boisen, a Minden, Neb., farmer and member of the National Corn Growers Associat...
  114. United Agri Products Inc., Greeley, Colo., forms Loveland Products Inc. to manufactu...
  115. The National Livestock Producers Association (NLPA), a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based...
  116. Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, executive director of the California Dairy Research Foundation...
  117. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Milwaukee, honored the 2003 winners of A...
  118. Just listening to William Dean talk from his Palo Alto, Calif., office at 7:30 a.m.,...
  119. Agriculture is under more scrutiny than ever before. A debate that was once focused ...
  120. Agri Marketing magazine created the Product of the Year Award program in 1997 to rec...
  121. Ridley Inc., Winnepeg, Manitoba, announces that its Hubbard Feeds Inc. subsidiary is...
  122. Adayana Inc., Edina, Minn., acquires Trina Systems Pvt. Ltd. of Hyderabad, India, a ...
  123. USDA has granted an additional approval for food safety technology that paves the wa...
  124. Osborn & Barr Communications, St. Louis, adds the United States Potato Board (US...
  125. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), Denver, announced the seven region...
  126. Five Years Ago * AgrEvo USA, Wilmington, Del., agrees to acquire substantially ...
  127. Following World War II, a small vaccine maker was started in an obscure town near Ho...
  128. As FCC regulations and laws continue to progress and consumers become more outraged ...
  129. Agri Marketing magazine has reinstated its prestigious Product of the Year award, wh...
  130. Agri-Broadcast Management Council, Kyle Bauer (785) 632-5661 Agricultural Relat...
  131. The Seam, Memphis, Tenn., announces that William Ballenden, Kevin Brinkley and Hank ...
  132. The Hain Celestial Group, Melville, N.Y., and Cargill Health & Food Technologies...
  133. The Veterinary Division of Virbac Corporation, a leader in dermatological and oral h...
  134. Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Johnston, Iowa, has designed and launched a new ...
  135. Product of the Year. What a great list of "product-of-the-year" candidates...
  136. AdFarm is appointed agency of record for the Bayer CropScience cereal, potato, canol...
  137. Welcome to the third supplement of YIELD, where we cover the business of food, fiber...
  138. With the evolution of the Internet, it has been argued that consumers suffer from in...
  139. Bozeman, Mont.-based Western Plant Breeders Inc. and Haven, Kan.-based Goertzen Seed...
  140. Badger (Wisconsin) Suzie Duwe (608) 845-1900 Carolinas/Virginia, Robert Simpson...
  141. RESOURCE21 LLC, Denver, launches its AgriTrax product line. AgriTrax uses RESOURCE21...
  142. Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited, will form a ...
  143. Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B) announces promotions and new hires in the...
  144. The Phosphate Chemicals Export Association Inc. (PhosChem), Lake Forest, Ill., signs...
  145. Tyson is undertaking quite a branding effort by consolidating all its recent acquisi...
  146. Publications professionals from around the country "Rocked the Renaissance Hote...
  147. Auctions are a mainstay in the agricultural community. But just like everything else...
  148. Helena Chemical Company, Memphis, Tenn., renews its contract with DTN Ag Business Se...
  149. Mike Gustafson (MOK)--President John Deere, Lenexa, KS (913) 310-8318 Tom...
  150. The Rodale Institute, Kutztown, Pa., expands its portal Web site, www.NewFarm.org, p...
  151. Farms Technology LLC, Lenexa, Kan., purchases the business assets of Rooster.com and...
  152. Have you counted your daily e-mails that offer instant credit, travel deals, or prod...
  153. Pickseed Canada Inc. names Karl Fiander, who has been with the company since 1982, a...
  154. There is no more hotly contested struggle in global agriculture than the positioning...
  155. NOVEMBER NOV. 2-4: American Seed Trade Association and Western Seed Associatio...
  156. The CLEARFIELD * Production System combines advanced genetics with custom herbicide ...
  157. ADM Oilseeds Processing, Decatur, Ill., appoints Greg Morris to the newly created po...
  158. By now all NAMA members have received their first Call for Entries for Best of NAMA-...
  159. eMerge Interactive Inc., Sebastian, Fla., promotes William L. Mies, Ph.D., to vice p...
  160. Agricore United, Winnipeg, Manitoba, enters into a letter of intent to sell its Farm...
  161. Golden Harvest member company JC Robinson Seeds, Waterloo, Neb., announces the expan...
  162. The Progressive Agriculture Foundation, which is responsible for the Progressive Far...
  163. CALIFORNIA ** California is the number one agricultural producer and exporter. ...
  164. NKH&W, Kansas City, Mo., adds two senior level professionals to its staff. Sonja...
  165. Keltgen Inc., Henry, S.D., signs an exclusive territory agreement with AgVenture Inc...
  166. Edward Peck joins Dairy Strategies LLC, Madison, Wis., as senior consultant and mark...
  167. The European Union Commission approves Archer Daniels Midland Co.'s purchase of Unil...
  168. Tyson Foods, Springdale, Ark., appoints Kevin J. Igli to the newly created position ...
  169. Swanson Russell Associates, Lincoln, Neb., selected Jennifer Neuberger as the 2003 r...
  170. The American Soybean Association (ASA), St. Louis, elects Ron Heck of Perry, Iowa, a...
  171. Editor's Note: This is the second article of a three-part series. In the first, whic...
  172. Dudnyk Advertising and Public Relations, Horsham, Pa., appoints Gary Gatyas as vice ...
  173. BASF Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Metabolix Inc., Cambridge, Mass., enter into a resea...
  174. Dairy farmers are dealing with the lowest milk prices in 25 years. The USDA reported...
  175. Quantum Genetics Inc., Saskatoon, Sask., and Merial Limited, Duluth, Ga., enter into...
  176. The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA), Washington, D.C., hires Jim Thrift as ...
  177. Five Years Ago * Farm Journal Corp., Philadelphia; has agreed to acquire AgDay,...
  178. The American Angus Association, St. Joseph, Mo., hires Sally Dolezal as genetic rese...
  179. The Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB) na...
  180. Patty Kisner joins The Meyocks Group, West Des Moines, Iowa, as a member of the medi...
  181. Cargill Minneapolis, and Riceland Foods, Stuttgart, Ark., form an alliance to manufa...
  182. You might say the livestock industry is under attack. Public concerns about the envi...
  183. The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), Washington, D.C., releas...
  184. David Wilson joins Phoenix Data Processing, Westmont, Ill., as senior vice president...
  185. Marketing Services Guide. If you haven't received them already, many of you and your...
  186. Elaine Shein joins Capital Press, Salem, Ore., as editor and publisher. She succeeds...
  187. Arvesta Corp., San Francisco, consolidates its North American marketing communicatio...
  188. Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, Miss., will sell Upland cotton varieties in pack...
  189. Landec Corporation, Menlo Park, Calif., announces that its food subsidiary Apio Inc....
  190. Sometimes when sitting you're in a movie theater, it's hard to determine the differe...
  191. BASF AG will concentrate the global functions of its Agricultural Products division ...
  192. Braes Feed Ingredients Worldwide announces several executive appointments. Keith D. ...
  193. Learfield Communications Inc., Jefferson City, Mo., acquires the rights to Goetz Net...
  194. Plainville Farms, Plainville, N.Y., selects Latorra, Paul & McCann Advertising, ...
  195. Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation, Chesterfield, Mo., creates an internal feed marketing...
  196. Chemorse Ltd., Urbandale, Iowa, introduces a new company logo. The logo, which featu...
  197. A real revival. Agricultural marketing communications is in a real revival. I'm basi...
  198. Philipp Brothers Chemicals Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., changes the name of the company to ...
  199. Bunge Limited, White Plains, N.Y., appoints Hunter C. Smith as regional chief financ...