Brownfield

All a-twitter

Twitter, FaceBook, blogging, podcasting, texting and a whole lot of other topics were part of a discussion at National AgriMarketing Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Friday morning. 

David Brazeal, General Manager of Learfield InterAction (part of the Brownfield team) was a panelist during a very insightful session Friday morning at NAMA.  Despite the fact that most people stayed up WAY too late at the Brownfield party the night before, there was not an empty seat in the room and the conversation was engaging. 

Technologically challenged?

You gotta love farmer’s stories relating to GPS – Yield Monitors – high technology, as told to me by a good friend of mine in Ohio.

When asked about yields – “I have two buttons on the yield monitor, one for the coffee shop, the other for the IRS.”

This one I really like – “The monitor indicated the beans were too wet, so I moved to another farm, same thing, then I realized the monitor was set for rice.”

Sister called wanted to know how the wheat was yielding, “I don’t know, but if it were rice, it’s yielding 72 bushels to the acre.”

The BEST – farmer gets a new phone, adds phone numbers and hits send after each entry, he calls everyone on his list, but never talks to a soul since he doesn’t realize he’s calling them, he thought he had to hit send to enter the numbers in the new phone.

-Dave Russell