Agri Marketing articles from January 2001

Agri Marketing archives from January 2001

COMPANIES.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... ABI ALFALFA, INC. 12351 W. 96th Terr, Ste 101, Lenexa, KS 66215; 913/599-2240, FAX: 913/599-2265 E-mail: datteri@abialfalfa.com Web site: www.abialfalfa.com Year established: 1960 Fiscal year: January-December Number of employees:...

DIRECT MARKETING & LIST RENTAL.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AGREACH DIRECT MARKETING, INC.(*) 775 Main St E., Milton, Ontario L9T 3Z3; 905/875-3912, FAX: 905/875-3071 New Business Contact: John Neil AGRICULTURAL INDEX MARKETING 2893 Sunrise Bird, Ste 202, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742-6527;...

EDITORIAL/CREATIVE SERVICES.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AIS COMMUNICATIONS & LIMITED 145 Thames Rd W., Exeter, Ontario NOM 1S3; 519/235-2400, FAX: 519/235-0798 E-mail: ais@aiscommunications.net Year established: 1973 Number of employees: 10 Pres: Peter Phillips Managing Editor/Publisher:...

COMMODITY NEWS AND FORECASTS.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... BRIDGE COMMODITY RESEARCH BUREAU 30 S. Wacker Dr, Ste 1810, Chicago, IL 60606; 31 2/454-1801,800/621-5271, FAX: 312/454-0239 E-mail: crbinfo@bridge.com Web site: www.crbindex.com Year established: 1934 Number of employees: 16 Pres:...

MARKETING CONSULTING/RESEARCH.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AG MEDIA RESEARCH (See advertisement in this section) PO Box 1486, Sioux Falls, SD 57101; 605/336-2054, FAX: 605/331-1004 E-mail: agmedia@agmedia.com Pres: Ron Claussen AGDATA 2100 Rexford Rd, Ste 300, Charlotte, NC 28211;...

MEETING & CONVENTION PLANNING/SERVICES.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... BURMEISTER & ASSOCIATES, INC. 6 Woods Trail Ct, St. Charles, MO 63303; 636/928-3700, FAX: 636/688-1650 E-mail: kcburmeister@home.com Year established: 1989 Number of employees: 3 Pres: Dave Burmeister HR Mgr: Karen Seller Business...

PERSONNEL RECRUITING/ EXECUTIVE SEARCH.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... ACC, INC. 1231 E. 2200 North Rd, Mansfield, IL 61854; 217/762-8541, FAX: 217/762-4616 E-mail: npkbob@hotmail.com Web site: www.agcareers.net Year established: 1988 Number of employees: 5 Pres: Dick Fox Dir/Personnel: Bob Wells...

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO.(agricultural industry)
January 1, 2001... AG-COM PRODUCTIONS LTD. PO Box 884, Regina, Saskatchewan S4L 1B7; 306/781-2424, FAX: 306/781-2849 Web site: www.farmvideos.com Year established: 1983 Pres: William R. Wilson Products: Producers of the syndicated Prairie Farm Report...

PREMIUM/INCENTIVE.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AMERICAN IDENTITY(*) 1520 Albany PI S.E., PO Box 147, Orange City, IA 51041; 712/737-4925, 800/369-4670, FAX: 712/737-3818 E-mail: sales@americanidentity.com Web site: www.americanidentity.com Year established: 1946 Number of...

COMMUNICATION AGENCIES.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... This section contains a listing of firms that offer advertising, public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion and/or Web site development services. Please refer to the table on this and the following page to determine which of these...

CANADIAN AGENCIES.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... ADCULTURE GROUP, INC. 775 Main St E., Milton, Ontario L9T 3Z3; 905/875-3070, FAX: 905/875-3071 Calgary office: 1150-1122 4th St. S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2R 1M1; 403/685-0938, FAX: 403/685-1089 Longueuil office: 100-794, Rue Frechette,...

U.S. PUBLICATIONS.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AG ALERT 2300 River Plaza Dr, Sacramento, CA 95833; 916/561-5570, FAX: 916/561-5695 E-mail: cfbf@cfbf.com Web site: www.cfbf.com Year first published: 1974 Parent co: California Farm Bureau Federation Farm publications unit:...

U.S. PRINT UNITS.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS 420 Second St, La Salle, IL 61301; 815/223-2558, 800/426-9438, FAX: 815/223-5997 E-mail: agrinews@theramp.net Web site: www.agrinews-pubs.com Year established: 1977 Number of employees: 30 Pres/Publisher: Lynn...

U.S. PRINT SALES REP FIRMS.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... BOCK & ASSOCIATES, INC. 7650 Executive Dr, Eden Prairie, MN 55344; 612/854-1090, FAX: 612/854-4752 Branch office: Chicago, IL E-mail: mbock@bockreps.com Year established: 1957 Number of employees: 8 Ad Sales Mgr: Mike Bock...

CANADIAN PUBLICATIONS.
January 1, 2001... ALBERTA BEEF MAGAZINE 2915-19th Ave N.E., Ste 202, Calgary, Alberta T2E 7A2; 403/250-1090, FAX: 403/291-9546 Web site: www.beefnews.com Year first published: 1991 Farm publications unit: Livestock Publications Council Circ: 12,000...

CANADIAN PRINT UNITS.(Directory)
January 1, 2001... AIS COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 145 Thames Rd W., Exeter, Ontario N0M 1S3; 519/235-2400, FAX: 519/235-0798 E-mail: ais@aiscommunications.net Year established: 1973 Number of employees: 10 Publisher/Ad Sales Mgr: Peter Phillips Ad Sales...

U.S. RADIO.
January 1, 2001... ALABAMA Dothan, AL(*) WDJR 96.9 3 Ragan Dr, Dothan, AL 36303; 334/792-6307 Wattage: 100,000w FM Farm Broadcaster: Russ Ragan ARKANSAS Jonesboro, AR(*) KFIN 107.9 403 W. Parker Rd, Jonesboro, AR 72404; 870/932-8400,...

CANADIAN RADIO.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... High River, Alberta(*) AM 1140 11 Fifth Ave S.E., High River, Alberta T1V 1G2; 403/652-2472, FAX: 403/652-7861 Year established: 1977 Wattage: 10,000w AM Farm Dir: Chuck Greig Sales rep: Canadian Broadcast Sales (Toronto, Calgary,...

RADIO NETWORKS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ABN RADIO 1515 W. Lane Ave, Columbus, OH 43221; 614/486-9577, 800/686-8299, FAX: 614/487-8205 E-mail: agsales@abnradio.com Web site: www.abnradio.com Year established: 1972 Number of ag employees: 7 70 in Ohio and West Virginia....

TELEVISION NETWORKS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ABN TV 1515 W. Lane Ave, Columbus, OH 43221; 614/486-9577, 800/686-8299, FAX: 614/487-8205 E-mail: agsales@abnradio.com Web site: www.agricountry.com Year established: 1972 Number of ag employees: 7 11 stations in IN and OH all...

BROADCAST SALES REP FIRMS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CAPITOL AGRIBUSINESS(*) 711 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27603; 919/890-6124, FAX: 919/890-6024 E-mail: bholt@capitolnet.com Web site: www.southernfarmer.com Year established: 1942 Number of ag employees: 10 80+ stations in AL., FL,...

WEB SITE DEVELOPERS.
January 1, 2001... 5METACOM 70 E. 91st St, Ste 200, Indianapolis, IN 46240; 317/580-7540, FAX: 317/580-7550 E-mail: mail@5metacom.com Web site: www.5metacom.com Year established: 1977 CEO: Chris Wirthwein (cwirthwein@5metacom.com) Mktg Mgr: Bernie...

E-COMMERCE.
January 1, 2001... AGCLASSlFIEDS.COM(*) Fort Dodge, Iowa Web site: www.agclassifieds.com Year established: 1999 Products: All types of ag-related products including seed, fertilizer, crop protection products, livestock, equipment and parts AGDATA...

ELECTRONIC MEDIA.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... AGLINE BY DOANE 11701 Borman Dr, Ste 100, St. Louis, MO 63146; 314/569-2700, 800/535-2342, FAX: 314/569-1083 E-mail: doane@doane.com Web site: www.doane.com Year established: 1919 Pres: Lynn Henderson (Ihenderson@doane.com) Product...

ASSOCIATIONS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ACDI/VOCA 50 F St N.W., Ste 1075, Washington, DC 20001; 202/383-4961, FAX: 202/783-7204 E-mail: pletson@acdivoca.org Web site: www.acdivocaorg Year established: 1963 Number of employees: 495 CEO/Exec Dir: Michael Deegan Asst...

ASSOCIATION MANAGERS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... AGRI/WASHINGTON(*) 629 K St N.W., Ste 1100, Washington, DC 20006; 202/785-6710, FAX: 202/331-4212 E-mail: agriwash@aol.com Web site: www.agriwashington.org Pres/Dir: Paul Weller Mtg & Convention Planner: Andrea Ball New Business...

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A 5METACOM, 317/580-7540 58, 159 ABI ALFALFA, INC., 913/599-2240 5 ABN RADIO, 614/486-9577, 800/686-8299 142 ABN TV, 614/486-9577, 800/686-8299 154 ABS GLOBAL, INC.,...

17th Annual CAMA Awards Presentation.(Canadian Agri-Marketing Association )
January 1, 2001... Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2000 CAMA NAMES SANFORD GLEDDIE 2000 AGRI-MARKETER OF THE YEAR The Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (CAMA) has named Sanford Gleddie, vice president of marketing for Philom Bios Inc., Agri-Marketer of the...

KEEP THE PRESSES ROLLING!(the dairy industry prefers their information printed in magazines)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Magazines Win an Important `Election' The votes are in, counted, recounted and here's the certified outcome: Magazines are dairy producers' preferred means of receiving information on new practices, technologies and products to improve...

ASSOCIATION PEOPLE.(executive appointments)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Peter Cleary has joined the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Washington, D.C., as manager, public policy communications. Most recently Cleary worked as a reporter for Investor's Business Daily, where he covered politics and the federal tax and...

ASSOCIATION NEWS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... National Farmers Organization and Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., have finalized details and signed a common marketing agency agreement to jointly market NFO members' milk. The agreement establishes a common marketing agency between the two...

E-BUSINESS PEOPLE.(electronic services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Rooster.com has hired Dean Grossman as its national sales manager and 12 field marketing managers to support its growing list of eBusiness Center partners. Initial field marketing territories and team members covering these areas include: Dave...

E-BUSINESS NEWS.(electronic services)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Cargill, Cenex Harvest States, DuPont and Louis Dreyfus have formed Pradium Inc., a separate company that will operate an online business-to-business marketplace and information resource to trade cash grains, oilseeds and commodity by-product...

ALL OF AGRICULTURE MUST SPEAK UP FOR SCIENCE.(address from Charlie Fischer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Editor's note: This speech was presented at the 2000 American Crop Protection Association convention. We in the agricultural industry are clear about our mission: We want to discover and develop new technologies so farmers can grow more...

FEEDING THE WORLD.(bietechnology could help the world hunger problem)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Proponents of biotechnology argue that over the long term, biotech products hold the key to easing world hunger. Estimates are that more than 800 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has remained nearly constant...

INDUSTRIALIZED ACTIVISM?(agricultural and biotechnology activists)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Modern Protesters Have Turned Idealism Into an Institution On a blustery day in Washington, D.C., Wenonah Hauter, a public interest advocate with Public Citizen, holds a press conference in the swank offices of the National Press Club. She...

STARLINK AFTERMATH.(biotechnology in food products examined)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Blow to Biotech Industry May Not Be A Blow After All For Aventis CropScience, the StarLink biotech corn crisis has been nothing short of a public relations nightmare during the last few months. The company now even seeks to spin off its...

MARKETING PEOPLE.(executive appointments)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Phibro Animal Health, Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., hires Robert Querido as president, Catherine Braden as vice president, strategic marketing, D. Hugh McIntyre as vice president, Latin America, Troy Smith as vice president, global formulations and...

MARKETING NEWS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Novartis sells its Flint fungicide business to Bayer Crop Protection for $746.3 million. The sale was ordered by regulators for the approval of the Syngenta merger... AstraZeneca sells its acetochlor corn herbicide business to Dow Chemical Co....

WHY AREN'T CUSTOMERS LOYAL?(agricultural food marketers and customer focus)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... Customer-Driven Business Models Reveal How Companies Can Satisfy Customers Needs Why are customers more demanding and less loyal than ever before? Many in the industry ask similar questions about customers these days. If only customers...

COMMERCIAL PRODUCER INSIGHTS.(survey by Purdue University Center for Agricultural Business)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... EDITOR'S NOTE: The spring of 1998 found Purdue University experts researching large commercial producers. With the support of sponsors (ADA/Moorman's Inc., Deere & Company, Novartis Crop Protection Inc., Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc,...

CATERPILLAR SEES AG TRENDS IN LINE WITH ITS CORE COMPETENCIES.(Robert G. Strube)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... Editor's Note: Robert G. Strube's career with Caterpillar spans more than 30 years. When he was named president of Caterpillar Agricultural Products Inc., DeKalb, Ill., in 1996, it was a return to his agricultural roots. Born in central...

SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS IN BIG SKY COUNTRY.(Montana, sustainable agriculture, Mission Mountain Marketing Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "If you can't visit Montana, at least you can taste it." That slogan draws Internet customers into Montana's Mission Mountain Market Web site to purchase organic, natural and other specialty food items produced and processed in the Flathead...

INTEGRATING HIGH-TOUCH INTO HIGH-TECH.(agriculture e-business customer service strategies)
January 1, 2001... How Companies Can Use the Internet to Become More Valuable to Customers So your company has had a Web site for several years now. And perhaps it's generating what you consider to be a decent amount of traffic. Where do you go from here?...

AGENCY PEOPLE.(employee changes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Swanson Russell Associates, Lincoln, Neb., promotes Brian Boesche to executive creative director, Dave Hansen to managing director of the Lincoln office and Wes Neuhaus to managing director of the Omaha office. Boesche was previously creative...

AGENCY NEWS.(briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Three members of the Biggs/Gilmore Communications management team -- Mike Gerfen, Gerard Miron and Jane Tamraz -- have purchased the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based integrated communications agency. Former agency principals CEO Ron Davis and president...

`RAVE ON, IT'S A CRAZY FEELING'.(Rave wheat herbicide)
January 1, 2001... AN INNOVATIVE WHEAT HERBICIDE INTRODUCTION I spent my time this month interviewing the principals involved in the Rave wheat herbicide introduction during the early months of 1999 and continuing with similar themes in 2000. I couldn't help...

CANADIAN FARMERS EVALUATE E-BUSINESS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Although U.S. farmers already have several options for purchasing products and services online, e-business applications in Canada are still very much in the budding stage. Ipsos-Reid designed the E-Business in Agriculture research to provide...

MEDIA PEOPLE.(employee changes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Larry Dreiling, High Plains Journal associate editor, is the new president of the American Agricultural Editors' Association. Dreiling has been a High Plains Journal associate editor since March 1989 and is active in several ag reporting...

MEDIA NEWS.(includes multiple records)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Farm & Ranch Publishing, LLC, Westerville, Ohio, completes the purchase of American Small Farm magazine from Magnet Communications. American Small Farm will be led by publishers Andrew Stevens, vice president, editorial; Curt Paulson, vice...

Agricultural Relations Council Membership Value.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I am not, by nature, a "joiner." However, I make the exception when it comes to being part of a group that actively works vigorously a) to provide me with professional access to people with innovative ideas, strategies, and learning's and; b)...

NAMA LEADER'S MESSAGE.(National Agri-Marketing Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) does more than host seminars on current trends in agriculture, offer networking to its members and provide leader training. As an organization, we also keep abreast on what's going on in the...

National NAMA Staff Additions.(National Agri-Marketing Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The national NAMA office added two new members on October 23. Dawn Foster joined the staff as the Director of Development. Her duties include membership development, sponsorships and fundraising. She will provide support to and Membership...

SYNGENTA CONTRIBUTES $500,000 TO RURAL HUNGER-RELIEF EFFORTS.(Syngenta AG)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Syngenta, newly formed from the merger of Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals, has announced the formation of the Syngenta Rural FoodShare initiative, a program that will donate $500,000 in 2001 to America's Second Harvest and the...

JOHN DEERE CREDIT REVS IT UP FOR ILLINOIS FFA MEMBER.(Future Farmers of America, John Deere Credit Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... During an all-school assembly at Scales Mount School, Denny Kelly and Shelly Laverrenz of John Deere Credit in Johnston, Iowa, gave 17-year-old Illinois FFA member Jimmy Schueller the key to a beautifully restored John Deere 4020 tractor. ...

AG STOCK INDEX.
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ACCELERATED GENETICS ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF CATTLE JUDGING.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Kylene Cook, University of Wisconsin-Madison Team #1, was named High Individual Overall and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Team #1 was High Team Overall at the Accelerated Genetics' Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest at the...

FIRST SEASON FOR CORNCAM WEB SITE RUNS ITS COURSE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For Jim and Sharon Greif, Oct. 16 marked the culmination of more than 150 days in front of a worldwide audience. The Greif's field of Garst corn in Prairieburg, Iowa, has been the subject of Iowa Farmer Today's CornCam Web page, where people...

ZINPRO PLANT UPGRADE COMPLETED.(Zinpro Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Refurbishing of Zinpro Corporation's second manufacturing plant, located near North Branch, Minn., has been completed. Zinpro invested more than $4 million in the 10-year-old facility, which it purchased late last year. The North Branch plant's...

BAYER UPDATES RETAILERS ON THE LATEST IN HERBICIDE TECHNOLOGY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Bayer Corporation updated more than 60 Midwest retailers on the latest innovations at a meeting in Kansas City, Mo. John Smith, leader of Bayer's herbicide business unit, discussed the handling benefits of the company's dry flowable herbicides....

AT CLOSING NEWS.(multiple topics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... AGCO Corp., Duluth, Ga., has entered into an agreement to acquire Ag-Chem Equipment Co., Inc., Minnetonka, Minn. The transaction will merge Ag-Chem with a wholly owned subsidiary of AGCO under an agreement that will provide Ag-Chem shareholders...

WEST AGRO AWARD PRESENTED TO DR. ERSKINE.(Ronald J. Erskine)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ronald J. Erskine, associate professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing, has received the 2000 West Agro, Inc., Award. The award was presented at the American Dairy Science Association and...

It's an anti-business business ...
January 1, 2001... And it's getting bigger and more organized all the time. As with any competitive business, you try to understand your competitor's motives, their agenda and their strategy. Several folks in our industry have pointed us to this discussion and...

THIS MONTH IN AGRI MARKETING ...
January 1, 2001... Five Years Ago * Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO names its Bt corn YieldGard and receives EPA approval of its Bollgard gene in cotton. * CAMA (Canadian Agri-Marketing Association) recognizes Ginty Jocius, president and owner of the Outdoor...

AT CLOSING PEOPLE.(includes multiple promotions and selections)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Farmland Industries, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., promotes David Eaheart to director of corporate communications. Eaheart was previously public relations manager. Jim Lee, president and chief operating officer of Furst-McNess Co., Freeport,...