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Iowa Harvest Update
Iowa ag secretary and former National Corn Growers Association president Bill Northey is providing harvest updates on Twitter and Facebook. Friday he wrote on his Facebook page, “Slowest sb harvest in...
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Thanksgiving Tweets for Farmers
Today is #thankafarmer day on Twitter. Many agriculture advocates are taking part in tweeting the hashtag #thankafarmer today from 10 am through 12 pm CST. Twitter users are also expressing their...
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Yellow Tail Turns Tail After Farmers Assault
As a general rule guns and alcohol don’t mix well. But when it comes to the colorful and often entertaining world wide web simplicity and entertainment value can help you hit the bullseye, especially...
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Planting Frenzy
There must be a lot of these 120 foot planters out in the fields – or farmers were just working their tails off last week in the perfect weather – because planting made phenomenal progress all over the...
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Make Some Noise!
If you have watched any of the World Cup soccer tournament, you no doubt heard that incessant sound make by blowing the noisemakers known as “vuvuzelas” that were popularized by South African soccer...
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Corn Commentary Wins Golden ARC Award
Winners of the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC) 2011 Golden ARC Awards Contest were announced at the association’s annual awards banquet in Ft. Myers on Friday night. A total of 24 Golden ARC...
View ArticleStraight Talk Straight from the Farm
People don’t trust traditional media the way that they did a decade ago. Studies have reported time and time again that today people want to speak directly with the source. CommonGround, a joint...
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If a Picture is Worth 1,000 Words, Let’s Send 1,000 Pictures to Start a...
From Main Street to MTV, everyone is talking about food. Unfortunately, this conversation does not often include the people who grow it. CommonGround Conversations creates a space for America’s farm...
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Harvesting Public Opinion
In the world of communications, it is understood that if you don’t tell your own story, someone else will tell it for you. Being as what this other person says may not be accurate or fair, it is...
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Let’s Talk About Food
For years now, the National Corn Growers Association, along with a broad array of other agricultural groups, has stressed the need for farmers to tell their own stories about food and farming. Time and...
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