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Agricultural Media Summit/AAEA - #102
The Ag Media Summit is a professional development conference that promotes and enhances the viability of ag media and showcases the ag publications industry through seminars, trade show and networking opportunities. This year’s AMS will be held in near Tampa, at Saddlebrook Resort, Wesley Chapel, Florida, July 26-30.

BEEF/National Hog Farmer/Hay & Forage Grower - #217

BEEF Magazine: Provides agricultural production and business management information including animal health, nutrition, marketing, finance, and personnel management.

National Hog Farmer: Focuses on management practices and research information to keep hog producers competitive.

Hay & Forage Grower: Devoted to the production and marketing of forage crops.

Corn & Soybean Digest/Farm Industry News - #215

Corn & Soybean Digest: The Corn and Soybean Digest focuses on the corn and soybean markets and provides in-depth coverage to maximize production and marketing for profit.

Farm Industry News: Farm Industry News provides information about new products, new technology and buying information of farm inputs purchased by high-income, high-acreage growers in the 12 North Central states.

DTN/The Progressive Farmer - #201/300
Market, weather, news and electronic data broadcasting. New owner of The Progressive Farmer.

Farm Business Communications - #109
Farm Business Communications (FBC) is Canada's largest farm publisher. Ten different titles are published under the FBC umbrella. They include the Alberta Farmer Express, Canadian Cattlemen, Country Guide, Grainews, the Manitoba Co-operator, all published regularly, plus several supplements issued periodically during the year. FBC has also recently acquired Horses All, one of the most popular equine publications for Western Canada.

• Alberta Farmer Express (AFE) is a new bi-weekly tabloid that reaches 43,000 farmers in Alberta. Its covers production and marketing topics for grain and livestock producers. AFE is modeled after its very successful sister publication, the Manitoba Co-operator.
• Canadian Cattlemen is a national monthly magazine with an editorial focus devoted to the business of raising and marketing beef. In publication since 1938 and known to many readers as "the cattleman's bible," its content is relevant, practical and informative and applicable to anyone in Canada's beef industry.
• Country Guide is Canada's best-known farm title. Its focus is success through strategic business thinking, no matter how small or large the operation. Whether it's the intensive, high-value specialty operation or a grain farm of thousands of acres, Country Guide provides case studies of how successful farmers find their particular niche in the marketing chain. There are western and eastern versions with a combined circulation of 45,000.
• Grainews is a tabloid published 19 times per year with a circulation over 40,000. It provides farmers with practical insights and tips such as choosing the right herbicide, find details on new machinery or navigate the accounting intricacies of the latest farm program. Grainews' mission is to help farmers cut costs and increase yields and often the editorial does both. Each issue also features a section called Cattleman's Corner which targets cow-calf producers, feedlot operators and the thousands of farmers who have an integrated grain and cattle operation. Grainews is the publication farmers use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.
• The Manitoba Co-operator, another of Canada's oldest and best-established farm publications, is a weekly tabloid with an editorial focus on regional, national and international agriculture news for farmers in Manitoba, plus a popular classified section. With a circulation of over 13,000 subscribers, almost entirely paid, the Co-operator reaches most farmers in the province.

Farms.com/AgCareers.com- #112
Farms.com Ltd. provides innovative information products and services to clients in the agriculture and food industries. The popular Farms.com Agriculture portal website attracts and informs top crop and livestock producers in North America. Our sites average over 17,000 user sessions per day and have over 3 million page views per month, which advertisers can use to target their messages. Visit www.farms.com to learn about our business, which includes PigCHAMP.com, AgCareers.com, AgFreight.com, M&F Trading, Farms.com Risk Management, LandMarketer and AgSoftware.com. We operate from offices in Ames, Iowa; Clinton, North Carolina; and London, Ontario Canada.

AgCareers.com vision is to be the leading supplier of Human Resource Services to the Agriculture, Food, natural resources, and biotechnology industry.

High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal - #204/206
The High Plains and Midwest Journals are leading agriculture publications covering 12 states in the heart of farm and ranch country.

Hobby Farms Magazine - #104
The Hobby Farms family of publications-Hobby Farms® and Hobby Farm™ Home® magazines, along with best-selling how-to guides, the Popular Farming™ Series MagaBooks™-are packed with valuable farming tips, innovative ideas, how-to features and creative inspiration for both the farm and farm home.

Midwest Direct Marketing - #307
Midwest Direct Marketing, Inc., is located in Spring Hill, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City. Through our many years of experience, we've established ourselves as one of the premier "hands on" direct marketing firms in America. As we have for numerous other major mailers, MDM can provide consulting on your entire direct marketing package, or we can offer you selected services. MDM works as an extension of your company - taking direction from you while saving you time and stress. We're looking for long-term client relationships. That means we'll watch your costs and work overtime to assure successful results. MDM can handle every aspect of your direct marketing effort - expertly, expeditiously and economically.

National Cattlemen's Beef Association - #309/311
Largest organization representing America's cattle industry.

Padilla Speer Beardsley - #315
Padilla Speer Beardsley helps clients build and protect their most important asset – their reputation – through a whole-brain approach to public relations and marketing communications. We invite you to learn more.

Quad Cities CVB - #305
Discover Quad Cities
There’s so much to see and do – it takes 4 cities and 2 states to hold it all! At the only place where the Mississippi River runs east to west, the Quad Cities lines the riverbanks with Illinois on one side and Iowa on the other. With a combined population of more than 400,000 people, the Quad Cities is comprised of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa; Rock Island and Moline/East Moline, Illinois; and surrounding communities. Experience the beauty of these historic riverfront cities – each offers its own unique atmosphere, attractions, and experiences. From John Deere, riverboats, and historic American-Indian sites, to festivals, museums, outstanding restaurants, and a vibrant nightlife, the Quad Cities offers up a fun-filled destination for your next event or getaway. The Quad Cities is the largest metropolitan area on the Mississippi between Minneapolis and St. Louis. In addition, the area is a popular destination along I-80, I-88, I-74 and several major highways. The Quad Cities is just a 2 ½ hour drive from Chicago, Illinois and Des Moines, Iowa and is served by the Quad City International Airport (MLI) in Moline. The largest meeting/convention center in the Quad Cities is the RiverCenter/Adler Theatre in downtown Davenport. The facility offers more than 100,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space. For More info on the Quad Cities go to www.visitquadcities.com.

Southeast AgNet Radio Network/Citrus Industry Magazine - #207
Radio Network and publication serving the citrus producer and industry.

Successful Farming/Agriculture Online - #223/322
Successful Farming is the industry’s leading Ag media company in providing business and production editorial content in a 360-degree multi-media platform. Our success in providing award winning editorial, community based marketing programs, and quality products that engage and inform readers provides Agri-marketers customized and targeted solutions to reach their customers. Successful Farming is one of the most successful and recognizable brands in the Agricultural industry with over 440,000 subscribers and 1.2 million readers per issue. Our editorial staff has won a combined four Writer of the Year Awards, including most recently, Gil Gullickson, the 2006 Writer of the Year.

Our Web site, Agriculture Online (www.agriculture.com), established in 1995, is a community and content based Agriculture Web site with video, audio, e-newsletter and user provided content features – making it a destination site for the Ag community. It has since received the 2003 Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Award for best Web site, was listed among BtoB magazine’s Media Power 50, and was named Best of the Web by Media Industry News in 2004. In addition to the magazine and Web site, Successful Farming properties include the Successful Farming Radio Magazine® and pod casting, Successful Farming Data Solutions, Living the Country Life magazine, Successful Farming Market Research Services, and Successful Farming Integrated Marketing.

University of Nebraska - Lincoln - #304
From the Farm Gate, to the Grocery store and now the Gas Station you can find AGRIBUSINESS ANYWHERE. As the pioneer in Agribusiness education our MBA Agribusiness Specialization is uniquely designed so our students receive the core Business Administration courses that business leaders are looking for in potential executives, but also have the freedom to focus on their specific area of agribusiness that allows them to reach their professional and career goals. Farm management, bio-terrorism, community development and alternative energies are just some of the agribusiness frontiers our students are exploring.

ZimmComm New Media - #219
ZimmComm New Media has pioneered the use of social communications platforms like blogging and podcasting to communicate online with farmers and the general public. The company provides consulting, design, development, production, content management, training and web hosting. ZimmComm currently provides varying levels of management services for more than 20 different blogs and 9 different podcasts. The company coined the terms agriblogging and farm podcasting.

Besides creating and managing blogs and podcasts for clients, ZimmComm also publishes a few of their own like AgWired (www.agwired.com), which focuses on what’s new in the world of agribusiness, targeting agricultural marketing & communications professionals. Other ZimmComm blogs include: World Dairy Diary (www.worlddairydiary.com), the world dairy business blog and Domestic Fuel (www.domesticfuel.com), renewable fuel news. Advertising and promotional opportunities are available on all of these online publications.

The company also operates a customized news release production and distribution business called AgNewsWire (www.agnewswire.com) which features their patented Talking News Releases. News releases are distributed to approximately 800 agricultural journalists nationally in addition to being published on AgNewsWire.com where they are archived.

Contact Chuck Zimmerman today (chuck@zimmcomm.biz) to find out how your company can join in the online conversation today.