The annual Beef Backer awards were presented at this year’s convention by then Vice Chairman, Dave Bateman (now The Chairman) along with representatives of the various state beef councils that nominated them. The Beef Backer Award recognizes chain and independent restaurant operators who excel in menuing and marketing beef. The Checkoff also announced the winners of the first annual national …
Give John Deere Credit For Helping
You know it would take a big bank account to write a check for a new John Deere combine and not too many farmers can do that. So to help them out they’ve got John Deere Credit. I spoke with Scotty Shipp, pictured on the right, at the National Farm Machinery Show about what the company offers to assist producers. …
FMC Gets an Authority Assist
Leah Guffey, WFMB, would like to hop on this Harley and drive it home. We were in the FMC farmer reception yesterday. The Harley is part of a contest the company is running. Our good friends Sally Behringer and Paul Redhage were on hand and so was Tyler Tuttle, FMC Retail Marketing Manager who I spoke with about their announcement …
Providing Dairy Business Seminars at World Ag Expo
While I’m on the subject of World Ag Expo I’ve got another report from Bill Baker, Dairyline. He spoke with Carolina Evangelo, Western Dairy Business Magazine, about the seminars she’s worked on coordinating for dairy producers who are attending. Carolina provides a comprehensive overview of all the awards and sessions they’ve got like one today on Milk Marketing Tools. You …
Cooperatives Working Together at World Ag Expo
Out at the World Ag Expo, Bill Baker is hard at work for Dairyline. Bill has been supplying our World Dairy Diary site with a weekly dairy markets wrapup almost since we started it. He sent along an interview with Jim Tillison, National Milk Producers Federation, about their Cooperatives Working Together program. Jim’s in the picture second from the left. …
Ethanol Insurance From John Deere
By ethanol insurance I mean that John Deere Risk Protection is now offering a policy to a grower who wants some extra coverage in case he can’t fulfill a delivery contract to an ethanol plant. Dennis Daggett, Director of Marketing for John Deere Risk Protection, is on the scene here at the National Farm Machinery Show. He’s been involved in …
World Ag Forum Empowering Agriculture
On my way to the National Farm Machinery Show I stopped for the combined meeting of the Gateway NAMA and St. Louis Agribusiness Club. Our featured speaker is Mr. Raymond Cesca, President of the World Agricultural Forum. His presentation is “The World Agricultural Forum: Empowering Agriculture to Drive Economic Growth” He’s actually in the middle of it right now. Of …
Michael’s Real Life Tour
It sounds kind of like a new reality show and in a way it is. Country singer Michael Peterson’s “My Real Life, Strong For America Tour” is about spending several days in each town getting to meet lots of members of the community and sharing stories, music, motivation and great ideas about how we can all work to build better …
Angus Productions Getting MultiMedia
I don’t know about you but I’ve wondered just what Angus Productions, Inc. does. When I got into the media room at the Cattle Industry Convention early last week I saw these little cards promoting www.4cattlemen.com and they said it’s producted by API. That raised even more questions in my mind after visiting the site. So to learn more I …
New CBB Chairman Dave Bateman
The Cattle Industry Convention is about over. I’ve got some posts to do still but you can also find a lot of additional interviews over on the Checkoff website – Beef Board Meeting.com. This morning the CBB welcomed a new chairman – Dave Bateman. Here’s Dave, hard at work at today’s annual meeting. After the meeting I did a short …