It’s Super Bowl Half Time. Mick Jagger is in better shape than I am at the moment. How old is that guy?
Floral Paradise In The Winter
It sure looks different in San Diego than the midwest this time of year. We’ve got flowers everywhere.
Using Projectors To Promote
I don’t know why we don’t see this used more often. Here at the National Biodiesel Conference they’re making good use of promotional tactics like this projector. There’s actually a number of them situated around that are projecting sponsors logos onto the walls here where attendees have to walk.
Meet The New Chairman of The CBB
I think this will be my last post from the Cattle Industry Convention. To sort of bring it full circle I interviewed the new Chairman of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, Jay O’Brien, from Amarillo, TX. The gavel was passed to him this morning.
Broadhead+Co Has New Website
I have so much news and information to bring you but these meetings are keeping me busy. I’ll try to post some “other” news over the next 2 days before things heat up at the Biodiesel Conference. I just visited the new Broadhead+Co website. The long-anticipated website.
Blogging My Way To San Diego Today
Today is a transition day for AgWired. I’ll be finishing up here at the Cattle Industry Convention before heading on to San Diego to the National Biodiesel Conference. I’ll be bringing you all the action from there starting tomorrow.
Staff Used Up By Convention End
Here’s what happens to the staff of NCBA and CBB by the end of the convention. This is in memory of Christian Hawley, just one of the convention casualties.
I think she needs a Red Bull.
Final Day Meetings In Progress
One of the final meetings here at the Cattle Industry Convention is the NCBA Board of Directors and CBB Meeting. Both organizations sit at the head table and report on their activities. It fosters a very open dialogue with everyone who’s attending.
Supper With The Larsons
I attended the Cattlemen’s Beef Board banquet last night at which they honor the people who are going off the board and the outgoing chairman. I am seriously glad I decided to go because I got to sit next to two of the people that I’ve missed since leaving Florida about 15 years ago. Pictured with me are Grace and Woody Larson. Woody is a dairy and beef producer from Okeechobee, FL. They, like all these people here, are just the salt of the earth and I couldn’t have been more fortunate than to have been able to sit with them at the dinner and get caught up.
Listen To The New (Almost) NCBA President
He’s being double-teamed here by Randy Koenen and Greg Akagi. He’s also the incoming President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. He’s Mike John and all of us in Missouri are proud of him. I won’t be able to attend his acceptance speech tomorrow afternoon so I interviewed him myself.