AgWired

The AgWired Meetup is in progress and we’re seeing some good early activity.

Here’s Ned Arthur (left) and Aaron Gilbertie hanging out before we got started.

I’ve got my Mac with me here in Monduel’s and will post as often as I get a chance to.

The golfers for the ABEF tournament got off to a good start this afternoon.

Even with the clouds and chilly breeze I’m sure they’d all say they prefer to be out on the course. In fact, the sun did finally come out.

I won’t be at the tournament dinner/awards tonight but will try to get some photos from it. I’m pretty sure Sherry Pfaff (left) and Kathi Conrad (right) here will have some pictures for me.

If I have my numbers right there are 48 people playing golf.

The student marketing competition process has started with the various chapters doing practice sessions.

Here’s the University of Guelph group in their room right when they were getting started.

They’re actually part of CAMA, the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association and we welcome them to the U. S.

When you get registered at the NAMA convention you get a big black bag of goodies. The bags are courtesy of The Western Producer.

One of those things is a registration card for the ZimmComm/Truffle iPhone drawing.

I’ve been running into quite a few people who say they’ll be stopping by our AgWired Meetup in Monduel’s. I know we’re going to have fun.

There’s enough stuff in these bags that you can sit down and spend an hour reading it all. I like the way the Convention program is done this year. It’s kind of like a spiral bound journal book with lots of blank note pages.

As the banner says, we’re welcome in Texas. Thank you Texas agriculture.

Things are mostly set up here in the hotel and the trade show area is coming together nicely too.

I’m currently in an AMS/IFAJ 2009 Congress meeting, which is one of many that take place since so many of us are in town at the same time.

Here’s NAMA President, Stephanie Gable, running the NAMA Executive Committee meeting that’s taking place this morning here at the convention.

The NAMA leaders take care of business early starting with this morning’s meeting.

Besides the NAMA Executive Committee meeting, other organizations hold their meetings here too like AAEA and NAMA. I’ll have some pictures from them for you too.

This will be Eldon White’s last meeting as the staff director. I’m going to try to find a few minutes with him today to talk about that and post it later.

We haven’t had this much fun since last year.

There are some early arrivals here in Dallas. If you’re the first person to leave a comment on this post and correctly identify the people in the picture I’ll send you a set of ZimmComm retractable ear buds for your iPod.

Today has started off a little wet outside from the looks of it. I haven’t even checked the forecast but I hope it doesn’t affect the golf tournament later today.

I’m going to wander around and see what else I can find as there are some activities taking place like the Executive Committee meeting.

Here’s what Monduel’s, the Hyatt Atrium Bar, looks like from my floor. Keeping in mind that we’re going to have an AgWired Meetup tomorrow evening from 5-7pm here, just take the escalator up to the 2nd level and you’re there.

Yes, I’m here in Dallas and ready for the games to begin. I’ve already started a photo album for you which you can find here: 2007 NAMA Convention Photo Album

I’ll be adding to the photo album periodically over the next several days so feel free to check back often.