AgChat session 6/29/2010

Question 1:

What types of stresses are there for animal agriculture in the summer?

Question 2:

How do summer stresses vary regionally?

Question 3:

How do you use A/C and non A/C equipment on your farm? Is it essential for your well being?

Question 4:

How do you attract summer farm help for the ‘extra’ jobs?

Question 5:

How does the heat/humidity affect the health of your animals? How do you manage it?

Question 6:

How has animal ag stress relief changed in the last 20 years?

Question 7:

What are the economic implications of keeping animals cool and comfortable? Examples?

Question 8:

How do you balance farm and family life during the summer?

Question 9:

What can we do to help/encourage farmers and ag folks to do for stress relief during the summer?

Question 10:

What’s your one executable idea from this evening’s convo?

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week’s chat

Foodchat session 6/15/2010

Question 1:

What are some of the best topics to connect with #food consumers to develop relationships?

Question 2:

What are your favorite social media sources for #nutrition and/or #foodsafety info? Or just food info?

Question 3:

What online tools will make buying easy & convenient for consumers? Paypal, calendars of food in season, etc

Question 4:

How can #food businesses (large & small) improve their use of social media to be more consumer friendly?

Question 5:

Can social media be an effective tool to educate #food consumers and how effective is retention using social media?

Question 6:

Who do you trust to provide info re #food & #foodsafety

Question 7:

How can we help new social media folks understand proper #food & #ag info sources/resources?

Question 8:

Do different delivery methods (blogs/newsletters/facebook have different impact on consumers/buyers?

Question 9:

How are #food producers working to insure their message is correct in short messages for consumers?

Question 10:

What marketing methods are in place to make #food consumers aware of current social media in #agriculture?

Question 11:

What’s the one executable idea that you’ve learned from tonight’s convo that you’ll be working on?

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week’s chat

AgChat session 6/08/2010

Question 1:

How would you describe your farm’s financial outlook? If not farming, what’s your forecast?

Question 2:

What should Ag finance look like to make farming more affordable for beginning ranchers/farmers?

Question 3:

What areas would you like to learn more about with respect to farm finances?

Question 4:

What are some ‘creative’ financing steps/actions that are being explored to fund new or ongoing operations?

Question 5:

What are creative ways farmers are cutting costs to balance books/maintain stable finances?

Question 6:

What metrics are farms using for measuring profitability and are any more useful than others?

Question 7:

How comfortable are you reporting your financial information to lenders today?

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week’s chat

AgChat session 6/08/2010

Question 1:

What info do people most want to get via SM? What frustrates them?

Question 2:

How can researchers most effectively share their findings with #farmers and other #ag professionals?

Question 3:

What social media methods (SM) are being used in agriculture? How prevalent is SM in #agriculture vs. other industries?

Question 4:

We skipped Q4 because your moderator is really slow after speaking 6 hours today. Sorry.

Question 5:

How do users partition SM use between communication, management and #agvocacy?

Question 6:

Should SM be used to network b2b or promote & market companies? Can both be accomplished? How effectively?

Question 7:

Are farm women more likely to use SM than men? How do women use SM to connect across rural/urban divides?

Question 8:

There have been several university surveys in SM. What are the results? What needs to be asked?

Question 9:

How are farmers using SM in the field? ie SM as true work TOOL rather than Communication Tool?

Question 10:

What are opposing campaigns/organizations saying on SM?

Question 11:

What is the one executable idea you’ll be working on as a result of this conversation?

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week’s chat

AgChat session 6/01/2010

Question 1:

What is your favorite farm festival/ag event? Why?

Question 2:

What have been some really great consumer engaging agriculture exhibits at state/county fairs?

Question 3:

How can we attract non-farm folks to ag events without being too ‘hokey’ or ‘folksy’?

Question 4:

What should the No. 1 message (or takeaway) be for non-farm attendees at a farm- or ag-related event? Why?

Question 5:

How do you measure event participation? How do you follow up on leads?

Question 6:

Connection & impressions are key with public. How do you do this in only 5 minutes or less at festival?

Question 7:

What will you personally do to engage the non-ag friends in get-togethers and BBQs this summer?

Question 8:

(a fun one!) What is the wackiest food you have eaten at a fair?

Question 9:

What is the one executable idea you’ll be working on from tonight’s #agchat

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week’s chat