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World Food Day & Blog Action Day Through the Farm Lens

October 16th, 2011

Today (Sunday, October 16) is observed for a couple of reasons that both impact the farmers who are empowering themselves with social media. If you didn’t know, today is both World Food day and Blog Action Day on food. Rather than try to tell a single story, we’ve asked some of the people who talk

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AgChat Foundation Gear Now Available!

April 9th, 2011

This week at the close of the #AgChat discussion, the AgChat Foundation announced creation of an online store to buy gear with the Foundation’s logo. Well, we know a few folks have ordered things and loved seeing the pride with which Drew Bender showed his off when he tweeted a photo this weekend! If you

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AgChat Foundation Celebrates 1 Year of Connecting Consumers with Farmers & Ranchers using Social Media

April 5th, 2011

Five ways to engage with real farmers, from foodies and farmwives to cattlemen with a cause April 5, 2011 – Americans may have noticed a new social media trend this past year: more Facebook posts from the farm, more tweets from the tractor and more blogs from the back forty. The timing of this social

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#NeATA11 to Demo Twitter for Fellow Techies – Can you help?

February 7th, 2011

On Wednesday, I head up to the 2011 NeATA conference (this conference is one friends say is filled with #agnerds).  What is NeATA?  NeATA is a innovative group of Nebraska producers who share a common desire to stay abreast of emerging agriculture technologies.  I attended my first NeATA conference over 10 years go. They always

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Farmers Launch #FoodThanks Social Media Campaign For the Holidays

November 22nd, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Heidi Nelson: 503.880.6313 Farmers launch #foodthanks social media campaign this Thanksgiving AgChat Foundation’s website offers five simple tips for expressing gratitude on Twitter, Facebook and beyond November 22, 2010 – With harvest in the rear-view mirror, forward-looking farmers and others in agriculture have been busy cultivating a new social media campaign to

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