A day in the life of country music star Michael Peterson. Sounds like a book or a movie. Actually, it’s the theme of my posts here in Green Bay, WI at the Three Hills Rodeo.
This morning we started out at 6am with live spots on local tv and radio stations. Here’s Michael being interviewed by the local NBC affiliate.
We’re standing in the rodeo arena, on the floor. I was very much hoping the bulls they had out for this stayed tucked away safely in their chutes.
Hello from Green Bay, WI, the site of the Three Hills Rodeo which will kick off this evening in the Resch Arena. I’m here documenting a day with Michael Peterson which started out very early this morning.
I interviewed him early to get a perspective on what all’s going on. He’s here to watch some young people get sworn in to the army and to help raise support for breast cancer awareness and the Deanna Favre Foundation. This is part of the Dodge Bulls & Broncs Outlaws of Rodeo Tour.
Here’s my interview with Michael:
3-hills-07-michael-peterson-1.mp3
I think this might be the last pre-NAMA installment of the NAMA Bombers series. They’re showing a commitment to our youth with an ABEF donation. Jeremy thinks he would be John Travolta if you wanted to put him in the movie. What do you think?
The NAMA Bombers Motorcycle Club has announced the donation of a genuine autographed lobby poster from the recent Wild Hogs movie and an exclusive “club members only” jacket to the ABEF Silent Auction at the 2007 Agri-Marketing Conference & Trade Show.
The movie poster is autographed by Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Durand, M.C. Gainey and Jill Hennessy.
The jacket is denim, size XL, embroidered with the NAMA Bombers Motorcycle Club logo with the four sponsor companies’ names (Adculture, John Deere, FIN, NAFB) tastefully and discreetly added. This exclusive jacket will be exactly like the club jackets worn by the NAMA Bombers on their National Run.Read More
I guess that farm broadcasters needing some more program material have got it now. Mini Futures.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that it will launch mini-sized CBOT Ag futures contracts on its e-cbot electronic trading platform. This is the first time these contracts will be available on an electronic platform and they will include mini-sized Corn, mini-sized Soybeans and mini-sized Wheat contracts.
The mini-sized Ag contracts are 1/5 the size of their full-sized counterparts, or 1,000 bushels. They will trade on the CBOT electronic trading platform on the overnight hours beginning at 6:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., Sunday through Friday. In addition, these products will continue to trade in the open auction market from 9:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
The contracts are scheduled to launch mid-second quarter 2007. CBOT mini-sized Ag contracts are designed to provide market participants with enhanced trading opportunities, offer global customers, particularly in Asia, a smaller contract that is sized to their needs. In addition, these products will utilize CBOT’s innovative process for directed fungibility allowing market participants the opportunity to offset mini-sized contracts against full-sized contracts as they near expiration. These mini-sized contracts will benefit from the arbitrage opportunities with the full-sized contracts, and the increasing liquidity during the European and Asian trading day.
As I was driving to a client presentation today I received a phone call from another client and tomorrow I’m headed to Green Bay, WI for the Three Hills Rodeo. This is going to be fun. For one thing, I haven’t been to a rodeo for a while. For another, I’ll be shooting some more video to play around with on my Mac afterward.
The client is New Holland which is a rodeo sponsor and Michael Peterson will be kicking things off. I’ll have a lot more for you starting on Friday and over the weekend.
New Holland Helps Open Chutes for Rodeo Action!
As the Official 2007 Sponsor of Three Hills Rodeo, Inc. New Holland will help behind the scenes at events as a New Holland TM145 will be grooming the arena at our events. While the new Skid Steer is on the road, a New Holland TM145 tractor will be servicing the livestock needs on the ranch in Iowa. Gene Hemphill, of New Holland, has also helped bring a great attraction to the Front End of the Three Hills Production. Michael Peterson, Country Music Recording Artist and New Holland Spokesman will be performing at Green Bay Bulls and Broncs Event. We hope to see him at other events down the rodeo trail!!!
Yes sir. This should be a fun event to blog about.
I want you to say, “North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board” 7 times in a row real fast. Ready? Go.
Terry Weckerly, Vice President of the North Dakota Grain Growers Association was named to the North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board. The North Dakota Crop Protection Product Harmonization and Registration Board was created by the state Legislature specifically to address and resolve pesticide availability and pricing fairness issues for the state’s farmers. The bi-partisan board consists of elected state officials and farmers who have a common mission of working with regulators and pesticide manufacturers to make effective products available at fair prices. It seeks to promote the registration of new, safe crop protection products for farmers to use on the more than 70 crops that are raised in North Dakota. Primarily, the board is focused on efforts to harmonize the availability and pricing of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides to match those of our world competitors, most notably in Canada, our immediate neighbor to the north.
Osborn & Barr Communications has a new managing director for its Des Moines office.
Cathy will serve as the strategic lead for Iowa-based accounts, and will manage the overall productivity and growth of the Osborn & Barr Iowa and Upper Midwest operations.
“Cathy brings to the agency a wealth of marketing knowledge and understanding of the Iowa, ag and rural marketplaces,” said O&B Senior Vice President Hugh Whaley. “Her event marketing expertise will be a great addition to our service offering for current and potential clients.”
Prior to joining O&B, Cathy served as director of marketing and events at Clear Channel Radio in Iowa, where she gained extensive management, promotion, media relations and public relations experience with clients including John Deere, Iowa Soybean Association, Owens Corning and Petco. Most notably, she produced the WHO Radio Great Iowa Tractor Ride from its inception through its ten-year anniversary, Under her direction the event grew to immediately sell out every year, draw 27 sponsors annually, and was replicated by Cathy in multiple Clear Channel markets.
Here’s a reason to go to the NAMA Convention and stop by the ZimmComm New Media/Truffle Media Network Booth. How would you like to be one of the first people to get an iPhone?
We’re conducting a drawing from our NAMA Convention Trade Show booth for an iPhone.
The winner will receive their phone as soon as they’re available. A service plan is not being included. We’ll conduct the drawing at the conclusion of the trade show but the winner doesn’t have to be present and I’ll announce it right here.
So if you want to find out more about how to include new media options in your communications plan, you know where to go. Hey, you just might be a winner!
After putting a link to E Energy Adams in my last ZimmCast post I took a closer look at their website and found out I could take a closer look at their ethanol plant under construction. If you’ve ever wanted to watch an ethanol plant being built, well now you can.
They’ve got a very cool live webcam set up which allows you to control it (pan, tilt, zoom, etc.). This is a still photo from just a couple minutes ago. You have two choices of what kind of stream you want to view, Motion Jpeg or Mpeg-4. You can watch as the crews are hard at work. If more than one person is on at the same time it puts you into a queue so you wait your turn. Then you’ve got about a minute before your time’s up.
I’ve been discussion webcams for ag applications with a number of people lately and thought you might be interested in seeing this one.
This past weekend I got to spend some time in the home state attending the XM Satellite Radio Indy 300. It was historic because it was the first race powered by 100% ethanol fuel. No matter who won, ethanol won. In fact, if you checked out the coverage on ESPN2 they called it the Ethanol Indy 300.
While I was there I interviewed Bobby Rahal, Rahal-Letterman Racing, for his thoughts just before the race kicked off. You can hear him in this week’s program. Of course he might have had a few choice words after the race too since one of his driver’s, Jeff Simmons, spun out in lap 93. I also spoke with Jack Alderman, Chairman of E Energy Adams, an ethanol plant under construction in Adams, NE and a brand new member of EPIC, my coverage sponsor. Jack says they joined EPIC because the industry needs a promotional champion and small ethanol plants can’t do it themselves.
BTW. This is my first ZimmCast fully edited in Garage Band on the Mac. I did it using 4 tracks of audio and after getting some more self-training time in. I think I’m getting more acclimated to to the Mac world everyday.
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ZimmCast 112 (8 min MP3)
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