With his voice I wonder how farm broadcasting lost a guy like Denny Oviatt. Denny used to be a farm broadcaster in South Dakota before getting into show announcing. After listening to him for several days he’s sure good at what he does. Denny is one of the ring announcers here at the National Appaloosa Horse Show. I spoke with …
Hall of Fame Reminscing
Today the committees of the Appaloosa Horse Club are meeting but the show is still going on at the same time. I’m going to try to find out what’s going on in those committees but in the meantime I keep running into some very interesting people like Laura Brest who’s another ApHC Hall of Famer enjoying the show here in …
Marketing Appaloosas Internationally
It’s a small world. I knew I was supposed to interview Michael Phillips and thought his name sounded familiar. We met at a St. Louis Ag Club meeting a couple years ago. Michael was here at the National Appaloosa Horse Show to speak with the International Marketing Committee. He’s President/CEO of U. S. Livestock Genetics, Inc.. He talked about export …
What A Farrier Does
If you had asked me before today I would have told you that a farrier has something to do with horseshoes but that’s about all I could have told you. Now I know a lot more about it. That’s because I met Kirk today in between jobs where he’s set up as a show farrier in one of the barns. …
Steve Taylor Talks Appaloosa
Do you remember this guy? Steve Taylor, now CEO of the Appaloosa Horse Club. He’s also the guy who got what I think is the first ag group blog going while he was managing the Missouri Beef Industry Council. He’s blogging in Idaho now as the head of this international breed organization and invited me to their National Show.Here he …
President Dean is Happy With The Show
It’s time to leave the ring for today. But before I go here’s an interview with Dennis Dean from Apple Valley, CA. He’s currently president of the Appaloosa Horse Club. Dennis presided over the annual meeting of the association this afternoon at which members were provided an overview of organizational activities and plans. You can hear his perspective of how …
A Look Forward To Boot Camp
I think this is one of those lazy kind of weeks. We’ve got a national holiday in the middle of it! Either you’re getting ready for it or you’ll be recovering from it afterward. But some of us are working at it. One of those people is Jenny Pickett, Chief Operating Officer for the National Agri-Marketing Association. I talked with …
Ethanol Powering IndyCars and Choppers
After spending another week on the road at the world’s largest tailgate party of corn growers, the Iowa Corn Indy 250 you get a ZimmCast about ethanol. This week’s program starts out with an EPIC update from executive director, Tom Slunecka which we did in the media center at Iowa Speedway. Then you can hear what the Indycars sound like …
E85 Chopper by Orange County Chopper and IFB
This was a cool story out here at the Iowa Speedway today. They’re billing it as America’s first renewable energy chopper that runs on E85. It was unveiled today just before driver introductions by Iowa Farm Bureau. The bike was built in partnership between IFB and Orange County Choppers. They held a press conference prior to the public introduction so …
IA Corn Indy 250 Race Day
Welcome to race day here at the Iowa Speedway as we near the start of the Iowa Corn Indy 250, Presented by Ethanol. To get things started we had a press conference titled, “Ethanol: Fueling Our Future” which was coordinated by the Iowa Corn Growers Association. On hand were Iowa’s state senators, Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin. Also on the …