Monday, November 23, 2009
Here at the AdFarm KC office this morning, some thoughtful person brought in these cool little recipe cards titled Fine Swine-ing. Each one has a great recipe for some pork-tastic dish for entertaining. I tried looking around online for who might be putting these out, but I came up empty-handed. The recipes looked so good, [...]
Last week, messages started showing up in my Twitter stream with a birthday wish from @FarmerHaley (Mike Haley), an Ohio grain farmer and Simmental breeder. The wish: get the hashtag #moo into the top 10 Twitter trends at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 2. The reason: bring some much-needed attention to the economic plight [...]
Also filed in Advertising, Agriculture, Social Media, Twitter, branding, communication
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Tagged #moo, birthdays, communication, dairy, farmers, farms, hashtag, milk, Twitter
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I’ll admit it. I’ve anthropomorphized a time or two. In any creative profession, it’s an easy fix to ascribe a like mind to an object or creature. It helps make old stories new again or create a more compelling interpersonal narrative where one doesn’t naturally exist (see: Cars, WALL-E, Toy Story, the entire Looney Toons [...]
Also filed in Advertising, Agriculture, Pets, Science, Social Media, Twitter, branding, communication
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Tagged Advertising, Agriculture, animal, animal welfare, audience, communications, meat, message, Science, Social Media, Twitter
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The average Fourth of July celebration usually includes a few key ingredients – grilling, cold beer, good friends and a helping of colorful explosions. But a truly great celebration, like a truly great dry rub, is all about those lesser known ingredients. In the case of our Fun Fourth, we’re talking slow-smoked pork shoulder, a [...]
Also filed in Aesthetics, Art, Science
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Tagged beer, celebration, explosion, fireworks, fourth of july, meat, police action, pork, recipe, smoking
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I was picking up some tortillas at the grocery the other day. As I’m surveying the choices (and there are startling number for an item that’s just flour, fat and water), the woman beside me turns and asks what kind of beans she should get for a corn and bean salsa. I say black beans [...]
Was it bettering and discussing your profession on Twitter? That’s what the folks at #agchat were doing. This week’s topic was #foodchat, and the discussion was all about food safety. These producers and professionals came in from chores and postponed family dinners to talk about how to better the food safety situation in America – [...]
