ZimmCast 753 - AdFarm 2025 AgIntel Index Report
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode I’m going to share an interview with Matt Weeks, AgIntel Lead at AdFarm. We discuss the inaugural AgIntel Index Report. This will be a yearly report that dives into the trends and insights dominating the conversation in agriculture. This is information that matters to agri-marketers and ag leaders. In addition, I’m adding a wrap up interview with Brent Kemp, President/CEO, AgGateway, about the organization’s annual conference, my last on-location work of the year. You can find the AgNewsWire virtual ag newsroom...
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ZimmCast 752 - Farm Journal Ad Insights
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode you’ll learn all about Farm Journal’s new Ad Insights tool which is new to the agrimarketing industry. It’s a first for a digital advertising analytics solution. Talking with me is Prescott Shibles, Farm Journal CEO. So, let’s get started with some questions. You can find more online at the . So that’s the ZimmCast for now. If you have some exciting news in the agrimarketing world feel free to contact me for the next episode. Thank you for listening.
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ZimmCast 751 - Preview of the NAMA NEXUS
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode we’re going to get an in-depth preview of the new NAMA NEXUS event that will be taking place in Milwaukee, WI, October 14-16. I spoke with committee chair Kasie Garcia. We’ll start with what the NAMA NEXUS means as well as the Economies of Ag. From there it’s on to the agenda and how it is different from NAMA Fall Conference of the past. You can still register on the NAMA website. So, that’s the ZimmCast for now. I hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening.
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ZimmCast 750 - Interviews from Farm Progress Show
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. It has been a busy time for the the ZimmComm Team in the past few weeks. After the Tech Hub Live conference it was on the way to the Southern Peanut Growers Conference, Ag Media Summit, ACE Annual Meeting and the Farm Progress Show. I’m on my way home from the 2025 FPS and thought I’d share some interviews. Besides an interview with Rob Shaffer, Illinois farmer, about the John Deere announcement about B30 biodiesel compatibility across all of their engine portfolio, I’m sharing an interview with Andy Heggenstaller, Global Oilseeds...
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ZimmCast 749 - Tech Hub LIVE 2025
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ZimmCast 748 - Preview Interview of the 2025 Ag Media Summit
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. Lets us get a preview of the 2025 Agricultural Media Summit with Shelia Grobosky, BioZyme, and AMS Steering Committee Chair and LPC President. It's all about meetings, keynote and general sessions, breakouts, InfoExpo, awards, ACT student members, sponsors and more. That’s the ZimmCast now now. I hope you enjoy it thank you for listening.
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ZimmCast 747 - Preview of 2025 IFAJ Congress
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this program we’re going to get a preview of the 2025 IFAJ Congress which will be held in Kenya. After our preview I’m going to add a most recent example of how you can make your news release talk. More at the end. So, let’s get started. I have Steve Werblow, IFAJ President and Aghan Daniel, MESHA, the coordinating organization. First up is Steve followed by Daniel. The give us details about the Congress and the location it will be held as well as who can register and attend the Congress. Daniel and his organization will...
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ZimmCast 746 - ZimmComm Plans for the Future
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. The ZimmComm Team are enjoying some time in paradise right near the Gulf of America. The weather has been great and we’ve had enough rain so that everything is green and growing. In this episode Cindy and I discuss the changes we’re making to ZimmComm. We recently announced that we are going to retire from business travel starting Jan. 1, 2026. That has been a very big part of the work we pioneered along with the use of social media in agricultural marketing. But we’ve got plenty to do as we continue to distribute news releases...
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ZimmCast 745 - ZimmComm Announcement & NAFB and NAMA interviews
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode I’m going to share a couple of interviews from the NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. One is with Gardner Hatch, Executive Director, NAFB and Debbie Boyle, Vice President, Kynetic. They talk about a new NAFB listener survey. Then I have an interview with Melanie Rice, Brownfield Ag News, about becoming the new President of NAMA. Before I do this I’m going to talk about a ZimmComm announcement Cindy and I published last week. Basically, we are retiring from business travel starting at the end of 2025. Besides our 21...
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ZimmCast 744 - Agri-Pulse Summit & Ad Day
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Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. The first day of spring started the day after the annual Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Summit and National Ag Day Activities. We have published virtual newsrooms on our AgNewsWire website and story posts on AgWired. So, in this episode I'd like to share a few of the interviews and audio from the events. I'll start out with Agri-Pulse. You can listen to the opening remarks from Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States Geraldine Byrne Nason. Next will be Jim Sutter, CEO, USSEC and then Jane Franch, Sr. Director, Climate Impact, Pivot Bio....
info_outlineHello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman along with Cindy Zimmerman.
Welcome to another year of agriblogging and farm podcasting. It’s hard to believe that we’re coming close to 21 years since we started ZimmComm in 2004. Cindy and I have worked together in the ag marcom field for about 21 years before that. Now we’re doing some thinking and planning for 2025. I sense that this year will be a big one for us
We’ve already got plans made for the same conferences during the upcoming months. We traveled to work at 20 different events last year. So, we’ll see how things go as time moves on.
We started taking photos at events 20 years ago when Flickr started. Since then we’ve uploaded 222,000 photos and they have collectively received 38 million views. In 2024 we uploaded 6,611 photos from the events and they have been viewed 1.1 million views.
On the audio side of things we started using Libsyn as our audio/podcast server platform in 2017. In that time, and just looking at our ZimmComm Golden Mic Audio podcast, we’ve received 2.8 million downloads of those files, with 137,000 in 2024.
Our AgNewsWire service had a banner year in 2024 with the distribution of over 80 news releases for our clients. And speaking of news releases we’re offering a 2025 discount for existing or new customers. If you sign up for an advance purchase of 4 news releases you will receive a 10 Percent discount. Regular price is $525 but your discounted price will be $472.50/each! Feel free to contact me about how AgNewsWire works and we’ll help you reach our comprehensive list of ag media.
AgWired and Energy. AgWired have also really kept us busy. Besides Cindy and me we’ve had 40 editors work for us and that includes interns, many of who are in high level jobs in ag media and agencies, and freelancers who have started their own companies. We can’t say how thankful and proud for all of them
So, that’s what’s on our minds as we contemplate the how/when/what and why of another year on the agriblogging highway.
So, that’s the ZimmCast. We hope you enjoyed it and thank you for listening.