chem ads

[wmoebis]

How many farmers rely on advertisements for chem purchases. You see full page ads in every farm mag. You see ads on TV radio blurbs. But when it comes down to buying do you go buy them or what your retailer and agronomist advise? Jackets, hats, expensive trips for chosen few all add to our costs.
Ads are expensive and that is passed on in the cost of chem. Are they waste of your money or are they realy worth it to you?

Do the ads realy encourage you to buy thier chem or is it your experiance and rep advise?

I for one don't even read ads I go to crop production guide and my agronomist, Who usually bring out the guide too.

[per]

Same as you, guide guided by professional help. Then choose the best deal in the type of product selected.

[food4u]

Most chem ads are an insult to the farming communities intelligence. They portray us as something we are not. Don't forget " If it was not for farmers no one would eat".

[SASKFARMER3]

Started seeding at 4 and heard a damb com$ercial. They drive $me nuts. Most farmers read and know about the different products, maybe the should spend more time trying to explain why canadian farmers pay way to much for some products.

[dave4441]

i agree with you guys on paper/radio ads, but if there is one ad that i do not seem to forget is the Heat add with the dragon on the roof of the sprayer. That one worked on me to the point of asking about it at the retailer. Otherwise it is just noise. Chem companies have big ad budgets which translate into big deals for ad agencies which translates into big money spent to prove ads work, weather they do or not.

[parsley]

It's about buying dissent.

If you are paid for running ads on your blog, or in your newspaper, or in your magazine, or on your radio station, or on your TV station, or "advertising" for a political campaign 'donation' with rooms and meals and expense accounts, you will hardly bite the hand that dresses you so stylishly.

Even if that hand held health reports that made you cringe for your children, you would declare your blindness, and choose to instead, write an article on gophers on the prairies, or el nino, or gawd help us all, how to properly check a bin.

That's waht advertising for hundreds of millions REALLY does.
Pars

[Hopperbin]

We could get rid of all these ads advertising reduced price on some expensive new name that I do not even know what the F where did that come from.
I like only one radio ad with the camelian trying to match the green color of the crop but it is even getting old and crap was it stratego?
I rely on the local dealers for advice. I like my dealers and reps are good, oh and that chem book. I am not the one to try something new first as far as chemical is concerned. In the end it comes down to what works, price, rainfastness, etc, you get it. I am like you.