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Social Media Conference Goes Small Town – Are You Going?
October 27th, 2010
The following blog post was submitted by Michelle Tucker aka kst8er76 on Twitter and one of the participants in the AgChat Foundation Conference. An excitement is building about the quickly upcoming Small Town #140 Conference to be held in Hutchinson, Kansas at the Historic Fox Theatre on Monday, November 1st, 2010. This is an amazing
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Borg Family Tells Their Farm’s Story on Video
October 26th, 2010
Recently, the Borg family farm had the opportunity to host a TV crew on their farm. The video has been posted online and several people on Twitter saw Debbie Borg (love that handle @iamafarmer2 cause she really works that farm!) tweet the link out. We asked Debbie to help us understand some of the video. Debbie sent
Tags: Debbie Borg, FoodSense, PBS, Phil Lempert, video
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Humanizing a Critically Important Industry From the Ground Up
October 15th, 2010
Farmers telling their stories through social media and organizations supporting them are in the spotlight on a leading social media strategy blog. Thanks to Jay Baer for taking note of Know a California Farmer and for offering his help to the AgChat Foundation. We certainly appreciate his amplifying the exciting work of farmers and ranchers through Twitter, blogs, YouTube and Facebook!
Tags: AgChat, Jay Baer, Know a California Farmer
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Why Farmers Should Make Videos
October 13th, 2010
Why should farmers shoot video and what do they need to know? The team at AboutHarvest.com prepared this video for the AgChat Foundation to help share key tips with the farmer members of the Foundation.
Tags: AboutHarvest, farmer, video, volunteer
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Breeding Food Security
October 12th, 2010
This week, the World Food Prize organization is holding its annual Borlaug Dialogue, complete with lectures, prizes, and above all, thoughtful discussion on how to improve food security for people in developing countries. There are many ways that this can be done, through old and new genetic techniques, to improvements in farming practices and soil management, to food storage, distribution, and infrastructure – not to mention social practices and attitudes about food. But as an aspiring plant geneticist, when I think of food security I think first about improving the plants that we grow.
Tags: food security, nutrition, world hunger
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