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eXtremeAg.com Announces Relationship with Agricultural Maven Dan Manternach

31 March 2000

eXtremeAg.com Announces Relationship with Agricultural Maven Dan Manternach

    CEDAR FALLS, Iowa--March 31, 2000--User-friendly eXtremeAg.com, a completely free agricultural website for America's farmers, announced today it has joined in a relationship with former AgWeb.com editorial director Daniel F. Manternach to provide large amounts of unique content.
    Earlier this month, Manternach announced he was leaving AgWeb/Farm Journal/Pro Farmer to pursue an independent career in agriculture. Manternach is the recent winner of the coveted National Agri-Marketing Association's Communicator of the Year Award and speaks at many national and international conferences and events.
    Before rising to the presidency of Professional Farmers of America in 1995, Manternach was editor of the Pro Farmer newsletter for 13 years prior to his move to management. During that time the newsletter rose to the No.1 position in the agricultural advisory newsletter category.
    "Dan Manternach has been one of the country's best and most accurate visionaries in ag trends for the past two decades," said eXtremeAg General Manager Ron Michaelsen. "We are pleased and proud to add him to our team at this time, as we are experiencing a tremendous growth spurt," Michaelsen added.
    Manternach will provide eXtremeAg.com with an exclusive "web column" every day entitled "Bare Knuckles," in which he will expose injustices and inconsistencies in all areas affecting agriculture. These areas may be politics, policies, programs, trends, attitudes, or markets.
    "What Manternach provides us is going to be controversial. It is likely to make some people unhappy," said Douglas McIntyre, President of FutureSource/Bridge and eXtremeAg.com. "But we knew Dan wanted to take off the gloves and tell the stories no other medium would allow him to tell, for fear someone might be offended or angered by it. And frankly, that's why we exist in the first place. It is time for the really brutal stories to be told," stated McIntyre.

    Here are just a few of the provocative topics that Manternach--a.k.a. `Bare Knuckles'--will address in his eXtremAg.com forum in the coming weeks:

    "Home on the Racist Range; Lots of Discouraging Words." It's no secret that large-scale livestock operations are coming under increasing pressure to halt their expansion and even cease production in the heavily urbanized eastern U.S. As these operations look to move to the vast expanses of the western U.S., racism among small towns in the West is evident. Those towns don't want businesses that draw upon poor Hispanics for their labor pool.

    "Push to Grow Hemp No Longer Confined to Long-Haired Pot Promoters." You often saw the hemp promoters in parades or trade shows, but unfortunately they were usually long-haired burn-outs from Vietnam in worn-out army fatigues--which didn't do much to dissuade the notion they were really just looking for ways to grow "baler twine you can smoke." Now, however, the University of Illinois is going mainstream with hemp.

    "The Elitist Views of Nature Nazis." Anti-biotech zealots are working to crush a new and promising technology that could help feed the world's starving masses. They've got enough money to buy their naturally grown alfalfa sprouts, and typically see abortion and mass starvation as a natural, Darwinian alternative to defending their goddess: Mother Nature.

    eXtremeAg.com is aimed at North America's risk-taking farmers and ranchers who are always one step ahead of the game. The site contains free high-tech weather, farm news, and market information with a heavy dose of opinion and farmer input, minus the affiliation with large farm-oriented corporations, all free of charge. You can find more information online at http://www.extremeag.com.