I’m not planning on doing a year in review although it seems like a lot of people are. Take the Brownfield Network for example. Tom Steever looks back at the year in agriculture in this hour-long special report: Stream or Download (22mb mp3)

Speaking of the Brownfield crew, another one’s going south of the border.

Brownfield’s Josh St. Peters will travel to South America Jan. 19 through Jan. 29. St. Peters, along with several Illinois farm families and agribusiness leaders, will tour Brazil’s cities and farms. The farm broadcaster will also be accompanied by staff of South American Soy, LLC., an Illinois-based group that is investing in Brazilian agriculture.

Agriculture is truly international so I’m sure Josh is going where the action is. He can’t just want to get out of the office can he?

Post Update: I must have missed this announcement. Besides the boys going south Tom Steever is headed overseas.

Brownfield’s Tom Steever is traveling to Berlin, Germany in January to attend the East-West Agriculture Forum, which is part of that country’s International Green Week observance. Steever is going at the invitation of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., which extends the invitation to one U.S. journalist each year.

This is a great trip and one I went on back when I was with Brownfield. I have a lot of stories Tom. Make them take you out to eat some good old German food. The first couple days we ate everything except German for some reason. If you try to convince us that you made it to all the booths I won’t believe you! This is one huge show going on there.