I like David Martosko’s HumaneWatch HSUS 50 percent pledge. Here’s the Pledge in a nutshell: As soon as Wayne Pacelle commits to doing the right thing, I’m outta here. You read that right. Hear me now, and believe me later, as Hans und Franz used to say. If the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States will make …
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John Deere Harvester Works recently rolled the half millionth self-propelled combine , a 9870 model, off the assembly line at the East Moline, Ill. manufacturing facility. Winfield Solutions, LLC, recently named twenty 2010 recipients for the organization’s Careers in Agriculture Scholarship program. Amye Hughes, a recent Indiana University graduate, joins Farm Journal Media’s Database Strategies Division as Account Representative for …
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Anyone interested in hay and forage production will want to be in Strawberry Point, Iowa, June 16 and 17 for the Hay Expo. Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) and the Beef Cattle Institute (BCI) at Kansas State University have collaborated to produce the Animal Care Training Web site, offering training video, testing and certification in specific areas of livestock handling. Myran …
Cindy’s Top Ten List To Have Us Cover Your Next Event
After a few days of telling the story of the Alltech Symposium, which I have not finished doing btw, I thought it would be a good time to offer you Cindy’s Top Ten Reasons to have ZimmComm cover your next event: We’ve pioneered online event coverage. Some call it live blogging an event. We like to think of it as …
Alltech Symposium Wrap-Up
This is my favorite photo from the Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium. I think I’ll call it “Dr. Lyons.” You can actually see both Doctors, Mark and Pearse. I took the photo when Dr. Pearse Lyons was introducing his son, Dr. Mark Lyons during our final general session. A picture of Mark was projected on the screen. You …
Alltech Symposium Concludes
The Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium has concluded. For our closing we heard some final words from Dr. Pearse Lyons who was then joined on stage by some of the great voices we heard at the opening International Dinner. Dr. Everett McCorvey, UK, led a song which is included in the audio I’ve posted below. It was an …
Final Day of Alltech Symposium
It’s the final day of the Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium. This morning there are several general session presentations. You can watch them live on the Alltech website. I finally had a chance to get some participant interviews done yesterday afternoon and will be posting them during the next several days. I hope you’ve been enjoying the coverage …
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Foster Team Building
The Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium brings in participants and customers from all over the world. I met several of them during a reception yesterday. They represent companies that have partnered with Alltech for the upcoming World Equestrian Games. I’ll feature interviews with them over the next several days. So let’s get started with the Netherlands. Eric Heemskerk, …
Alltech Discussion Dinners
This evening participants in the Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium broke up into discussion dinners with various topics. I attended the dairy dinner. Other topics included: * Food Fight: Do consumer perceptions affect the future of commercial agriculture? * The Urban-Rural Divide: Farmers need to learn how to communicate with the media (pictured) * Greening planet: Regulatory considerations …
First Annual NAFB Lake Girls Retreat
The 1st Annual NAFB Lake Girls Retreat was held this past weekend at the lovely home of the incomparable Sara Wyant and Al Johnson of Agri-Pulse. Some of you may remember that a group of gals who are NAFB old-timers got together and bought the weekend at Al and Sara’s up for bid at the NAFB Foundation auction last fall. …