Hopefully you’re familiar with Paul McKellips and his reports on the good news of what’s happening in Iraq, especially as it relates to agriculture. If not, then I suggest you listen to this week’s ZimmCast to hear from the man himself.

I was very happy to get to meet Paul in Kansas City last week and we sat down for a conversation that I thought you might like to listen in on. Paul is on a leave until after the first of the year and then he’s going back to Iraq. If all you see and hear is what’s on the main news outlets you might think what we’re doing there is all doom and gloom and failure. That’s just not the case but what can you do with the kind of biased traditional media we have today?

What you do if you’re the Department of Agriculture or Department of State, is send in Paul and his equipment to go behind the scenes and try to show the positive side of what our men and women are doing in this country. Paul wears a flack jacket when he’s on assignment but as he says in this interview, when he’s with our military in Iraq he feels safer than being alone on the streets of our nation’s capitol.

Paul talks about what he does on assignment and what he thinks are the biggest success stories in Iraq agriculture that our military has had a hand in. He says that many of our service men and women are working on ag projects but don’t have ag backgrounds. But they’re still getting the job done.

When Paul starts cranking out the reports again in 2007 you can count on finding them posted here on AgWired. Paul says that my posts have gotten noticed by the top military leaders too and even the White House. paul-mckellips.mp3

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