a colorful adventure

If you are on Twitter and interested in agriculture, what hashtags should you use or follow? Here are some of the latest buzzes going around.

Background note:  If you are on Twitter and not familiar with the listing options available or how to use them, I encourage you to get in touch with someone who is using them. It’s a very helpful way of organizing the information that comes in your tweetstream, and applications like Seesmic, TweetDeck, UberTwitter and Twitter [...]

The discussion we have so frequently about where our food comes from… I know you know your food comes from farms and ranches, but I’m wondering what’s the last touch point before it gets to you. So this poll is a bit easier than most…. and you can select more than one answer! But to [...]

The following post is by Brandon Hunnicutt @cornfedfarmer — it was updated May 1 to include the transcript Agriculture is changing at a rapid pace. The technology we are using today is vastly different then 5 years ago. The technology we will be using in 5 years will be different then what we are using [...]

I’m not sure I’d bite off a daunting list like the top ag tweeps… but Sabrina at Fastline put one together.  There are lots of tweeps I put way ahead of me.  But I’m thrilled to be included as it seems that I’m contributing to the discussion on agriculture with what I’m putting out on [...]

Nothing like getting out in the field with a kid — whether they are from the city or farm.  You suddenly realize how cool it is to know even the slightest things about farming.  And luckily my nieces & nephews have always been up for a stop along the road and some ag education. Yesterday [...]

Today, Cal Poly hosted a panel discussion on agriculture.  Some of our tweeps were in the audience — @dairy dino and @ilovefarmers – and quite a few were watching through the live stream on the net.  It was really something to see and listen to and the tweet flow was steady.  I wanted to revisit [...]