BASF Plant Science has announced the winners to their NutriDense® Silage Web Moo.0 contest. Congratulations to Ashley Messing for winning the grand prize, registration and travel expenses to the first AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference. Runners-up include Marianne Friers of New York and Nancy Grossi of California. Both will receive Flip Mino Cameras to help them put sights and sounds to their slices of the dairy industry.
The grand prize winner Ashley Messing, is a fifth-generation dairy producer in Michigan who agvocates on her personal blog, Facebook and @armessing Twitter account. With her blog post “Agvocating at its Best,” Ashley didn’t just tell us how she uses social media, she showed us. Here is an excerpt from Ashley’s entry:
“By the end of our conversation the daughter asked to get a photo with me because she said I wasn’t anything like she thought a farmer would be. She was going to show all of her friends and tell them all about her experience at Breakfast on the Farm. Honestly, these experiences make me thankful for all of the work I do. In these moments I see what we do pays off, all of the agvocating and communicating. It made my 6 hours of driving, both ways, worth the time and effort.”
Be sure to check out Marianne’s Northview Diary blog, which she created after writing a weekly farm column for her local newspaper. We thought her combination of old and new media shows how the dairy industry can use both outlets to spread its messages.
Nancy impressed us with her obvious passion for agvocacy, which she demonstrates daily on her Wife of a Dairyman blog, @wifeofadairyman Twitter account and Facebook page.
Source: NutriDense: Twitter @NutriDense; Facebook