12-27-11 2012 CWAC/CAWG Annual County Meetings and Elections Jan 9-10-11-12…Interview with CO Wheat’s Glenda Mostek

Glenda Mostek, Communications & Marketing Director for CAWG/CWAC/CWRF

(The BARN – Briggsdale, CO) December 29th, 2011 -  Colorado Wheat’s Communications & Marketing Director Glenda Mostek provides more details about the upcoming CWAC/CAWG Annual County Meetings & Elections PLUS discusses the benefits of becoming a CAWG member…122911_CoWheat_GlendaMostex_8m17s

December 27, 2011 - Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the annual county business meetings and elections jointly sponsored by the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) and the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers (CAWG).  The business meetings and elections will be held January 9 – 12, at 8 different locations.

A special feature at some county meetings this year will be a wheat marketing presentation by Dan Maltby, commodity trading expert and former grain buyer with General Mills. CWAC/CAWG Executive Director Darrell Hanavan will review the current U.S. and world wheat situation at the other county meetings.

CWAC President Tom Neira strongly encourages all wheat farmers to attend.

“Not only will you get an update on CWAC and CAWG activities for the year, this is an opportunity to hear about grain marketing from someone who has been grain buyer for General Mills, as well as a private trader. You will get to hear the other side of the grain trade, from a perspective that you may not have considered,” Neira said.

Neira will discuss how funding from the producer-approved assessment is being invested in education, research and promotion programs.

CAWG President Randy Traxler will present an update on state and national legislative activities, including state budget issues and national issues on the horizon such as the 2012 Farm Bill.

CWAC and CAWG are two distinctly separate organizations with different but complementary purposes.

CWAC is the producer-elected Board of Control for the Colorado Wheat Marketing Order whose purpose is to decide how assessment funds are to be spent for research, promotion and education activities.

CAWG is a voluntary membership association that lobbies on behalf of wheat growers at the state and national levels of government and provides special programs and benefits to dues paying members.

A complete list of all the meeting locations/dates/times is below:

Two Colorado Agriculture Radio Networks Create Partnership…Jan 1st, 2012

Briggsdale, Colorado, December 26th, 2011- The BARN Network (Brian Allmer Radio Network) and the Colorado Agriculture News Network have announced today the joint partnership of these two Agriculture content based radio networks.

The six year old Colorado Agriculture News Network syndicated radio show, created and hosted by Lorrie Boyer will become a part of the BARN network, beginning January 1, 2012. “I think our networks align when it comes to the end goal, which is getting vital agriculture information out to public in the form of interviews and radio reports,” states Boyer. “We have a history of offering credible and educational information to those in rural areas and those who raise the food and fiber in Colorado. I am happy to partner with Brian Allmer in further expanding our efforts and resources.”

BARN Media owner and host, Brian Allmer has been a farm broadcaster for the past 6 years. He is a Colorado farmer and also is active in the Colorado 4H Foundation, Colorado FFA Foundation, Colorado Farm Show Marketing Committee Member, and  has been a  National Association of Farm Broadcasters member since 2007.

“I am equally excited about the merger of the Colorado Ag News Network with the BARN,” states Brian Allmer. “Lorrie has done a great job in building the Colorado Ag News Network to what has become today,  and I will do my best to maintain it and make it something listeners, sponsors & the entire ag industry can be proud of and will come to know as a ‘Friend to Agriculture’ as well as a media outlet.”

Allmer will be anchoring the ag news reports, which can be heard throughout Colorado. For a listing of the stations and supporters and to find a station in your area, go to www.barnmedia.net. In addition to daily national and state agriculture news, Allmer also produces daily market reports and a weekend half hour agriculture program. The reports are available on the barnmedia.net website as well.

Listeners are invited to send comments and story leads to barnmedia@yahoo.com. ###