The agricultural journalists on this week’s media event in Germany had the honor of being able to personally interview some of the top corporate executives of BASF Agricultural Products.
You have to admit, this is a darn good looking group. We do clean up well. Along with myself, the seven other journalists on the trip and our BASF communications manager hosts are pictured BASF Ag Products division president Michael Heinz, with group VP for strategic marketing of ag products Emmanual Butstraen to his left and group VP North America Ag Products Markus Heldt to his left. Top middle is Peter Eckes, Senior VP for Global R&D. I already posted an interview with Michael and will feature interviews with the others here in future posts.
I will identify everyone else later. It’s late here in Brussels where we arrived this evening. We had a nice dinner on the town and have an early day Friday with EU ag officials, which should be very interesting. Stay tuned for more and check out the latest photos for our last day in Germany at the BASF research facility where we learned about prescreening of compounds, fungicide research, ecotoxicology, and seed treatment. I promise much more later.
POST UPDATE: Here are the names of the rest of the folks in the picture, in no particular order: Wayne Wenzel, Farm Journal/Top Producer; Don Green, Ag Day TV/US Farm Report TV; Willie Vogt, Farm Progress; Eric Sfiligoj, CropLife; Gil Gullickson, Successful Farming; Greg Lamp, Corn and Soybean Digest; Greg Horstmeier, DTN/Progressive Farmer; Pat Morrow, BASF Communications Manager, Elise Kissling BASF Global Communications Manager. Dan Muys with Quarry Communications gets the photo credit – and a lot of other credit too. He, Pat and Elise, as well as Elise’s assistant Michele, just did an incredible job setting up this trip and taking care of us.