USDA Launches State Twitter Feeds on Food Recalls
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a series of Twitter feeds that will provide state-specific, food safety alerts to consumers. Followers of these Twitter accounts will receive alerts about recalls of meat, poultry and processed egg products in their state, as well as information on how to protect the safety of their food during severe weather...
Read More62% of Farms Have Internet
A total of 62 percent of U.S. farms now have Internet access, compared with 59 percent in 2009, according to a report released Friday by the Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Sixty-five percent of farms have access to a computer in 2011, up 1 percentage point from 2009, according to the report. The number of farms with broadband Internet access also continues to...
Read MoreAll Aboard Wheat Harvest Arrives in Colorado
As winter wheat harvest in Colorado gains momentum, several of the correspondents for the “All Aboard Wheat Harvest Tour” are heading into the state and inviting online followers along for the ride. This is the third season of the All Aboard Wheat Harvest Tour, sponsored in part by the High Plains Journal. Followers of the tour can receive real-time wheat harvest snapshots and interact with...
Read MoreCFB is on Facebook!
Colorado Farm Bureau has recently joined the ranks of Facebook! Although the CFB Young Farmer & Rancher program has been on the site for some time, a new page has just been created to encompass the entire Colorado Farm Bureau org Click the Like button below to get connected! This is a great way to stay connected with your organization and interact with other CFB...
Read More‘Farm Bloggers’ Brings Ag, Consumers Together Online
A new website is working to bring consumers and agriculturists together online. Farmer Bloggers pulls together the blog posts of 21 farmers and ranchers and puts them in a single place on the internet. The site allows readers to vote for posts they like, displaying those articles as top trending information. If you are looking for ideas on how you can get on the blogging train and help inform...
Read MoreAgChat Foundation Marks Year of ‘Social Media Stampede’
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 media “stampede” couldn’t be better, said Jeff Fowle, a Farm Bureau member and president of the AgChat Foundation. Celebrating its one-year anniversary today, the AgChat Foundation is a 100 percent...
Read MoreLegislative Tracking 2013
