The temperature here at Lake Okoboji is wonderful compared to at home. It’s cool, cloudy and we’ve got a nice breeze.

Perfect arrival conditions for the Syngenta Media Event that kicks off this week’s Learning Centers. We’ll be out in the field in Milford, IA tomorrow. Today it’s classroom time as we explore, learn and hopefully profit. I like the “p” word! I’m sure farmers do too.

The program is about to kick off here at The Inn Conference Center. We’ll be hearing from a number of Syngenta and industry representatives and I’m going to try to interview them all and post those here for you.

Helping make this happen are the fine folks from Gibbs & Soell, Gardner Hatch and Catherine Wang. I’m sure I’ll capture them on a picture soon. I think we have 8 speakers on the line up this afternoon so they’ll be busy making sure all of us media types get our interviews done.