Here’s a World Ag Expo update from Gary Schulz.
Wednesday of World Ag Expo in Tulare, California meant a huge crowd. The traditional “mid-day” of the expo did not disappoint as early fog burned off by late morning for a spectacular “California Classic” with a high in the ’60s.
The Budweiser Clydesdales were again on-hand and were a popular feature for young and old alike. World Ag Expo veteran Norlan Sapp, formerly with John Deere and now with Gehl Corporation, indicated that their prime exhibit location on Median Street would hopefully attract the buyer-prospects and the potential dealers necessary to make for a successful show.
One of the “Top 10 New Product” winners, Pure Sense of Emeryville, CA, experienced robust traffic in their exhibit space in Pavilion B as a result of heavy crowds and a comprehensive pre-expo marketing campaign coordinated by the Lockwood Agency of Visalia that included a mailing to current customers encouraging their visit to the booth. According to John Williamson of Pure Sense, the “Irrigation Manager” technology and software enables and empowers the grower to monitor in real-time field conditions in remote locations in order to minimize labor, energy and water use, and to maximize yield and quality of commodity. Studies during the 2007 crop year found that the Pure Sense investment was returned “pre-harvest”, that is, the cost of the technology, installation, and subscription paid for itself in savings of energy, water, and labor, with increased yield and quality “icing on the cake”! This is all “good stuff” for California growers experiencing the challenges of water cutbacks, increased costs for electricity, and an increased minimum wage.
World Ag Expo Chair-woman, Shelly Khal, was under the weather with a flu bug, but continued to do her duties of media interviews, special events, and visibility to the nearly 1,200 orange jacket volunteers.
Congratulations to the management and staff of DairyBusiness Communications for another fine World Ag Expo magazine. It serves as the major promotional tool for the expo and its quality as well as page count has steadily grown since DBC assumed the responsibilities for selling ads, design, production, and distribution under the careful guidance of Stan Bird, ad sales by Jackie Machado, and leadership by corporate leadership like Joel Hastings and John Montandon in the mid-’90s.
Gary Schulz, General Manager of World Ag Expo (1990-2005),
Program Director for the Claude Laval Water and Energy Technology Incubator,
and Senior Strategist for Gary Schulz Consulting.
Thank you Gary.
All I can say is that the testosterone level was high in the arena for the 
The media here at the National Farm Machinery Show are thrilled to have an official media room. It’s got the fastest internet access I’ve used in a long time. I sure wish they could all be like this.
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The National Farm Machinery Show is off to a bright white start here in Louisville. They said it was over but they were wrong. I’ve spoken with some exhibitors inside who have apparently been here a while and they didn’t even know it was snowing hard outside.
The wireless access here in the media room is working great and we’re place in an ideal location in the South Hall.
Yuck. The drive to Louisville this afternoon got bad once I got into southern Indiana. I think I drove through everything – freezing drizzle, freezing rain, rain, snow, sleet, etc. Off and on, off and on. I passed or was passed by a number of farm trucks so I know I’m not the only one who traveled I-64 today. (Yes I was listening to my iPod).
It’s interesting what a flash will do from your camera when it’s snowing.