There are some new team members at Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications.
Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications has hired agribusiness communications professional Eileen Crosby as a management supervisor to lead the Southern row crop business for client Bayer CropScience, overseeing activities for the cotton, rice and peanut markets.
To further develop the Bayer CropScience team, Rhea & Kaiser also recently hired Bill McLain and Stacy Mayo, senior account executive and assistant account executive, public relations, respectively.
Crosby brings nearly 20 years of experience to the position. Prior to joining Rhea & Kaiser, she led the cotton account team at Bader Rutter & Associates in Brookfield, Wis., and served as manager of consumer and business-to-business products and services for DMC Advertising Inc. of Pawaukee, Wis.
McLain, who previously managed PR programs for Dow AgroSciences’ Southern crops division at Bader Rutter, will lead day-to-day PR efforts on the FiberMax cotton business. Mayo, a recent graduate of Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications and journalism, will provide support to the portfolio of Bayer corn and soybean products.
The agency also promoted Jeff Walter, a seven-year veteran of the Bayer CropScience business, to management supervisor from account supervisor. In his new role, Walter will manage all branding efforts for the Bayer CropScience corn, soybean and sorghum portfolios.
Here are the happy shining smiling faces of the Blogging for Business workshop. 
This morning Syngenta hosted a pancake breakfast for us and distributed memory sticks containing all the information we need including logos, product info, etc. 
Even though I took the first bus back from the opening reception at Huber Winery it’s still too late for this agriblogger to get much done tonight. I’ll try to get some new pics added to the photo album though.
Registration is open and so is the BASF Media Room.
In case you’ve never seen a tobacco flower they are very pretty. 
One of our stops on the Saturday tour was a tobacco farm. I’m no expert but his crop looked to be in great shape and you can see pictures of it in the photo album. Here’s Harlan Persinger sniffing some dried tobacco that was on display. We didn’t get to chew or smoke any though.
Attending the Ag Media Summit is a group of communications professionals from Mali. They’ve been attending Oklahoma State University as part of an international exchange program and have been doing internships and all kinds of things.
Our next stop on today’s tour is Alltech. The tour is going on right now but I was here earlier this year for 
Once bourbon is barreled here at Woodford Reserve it “goes to sleep” for approximately 7 years. During that time the very clear distilled fresh product gains its color and flavor from the wood barrels.