There aren’t too many people in agricultural marketing who don’t know Gene Hemphill, Industry Affairs, New Holland. You probably know that we honored him at the media reception at Commodity Classic. This week’s program expands on that theme. Gene is a friend as well as a client and beloved by all of us in the media who have worked with him for so long. For all the attention he’s getting for “partially retiring” I can’t wait to see what happens when he really retires!

I promise you this isn’t too long (since I cut him off) but you can not only listen to Gene’s comments at the media reception but you can also watch them in this video. The lighting was kind of funky and at one point we went to full dark but it works. You’ll see Emcee Mike Adams, AgriTalk, introduce Gene first.

Before hearing Gene’s comments in this week’s program you can hear Pam Fretwell’s (WTAD) story about how she met Gene. It’s a good example of the stories we heard at the reception. I did record the full presentation which I’m sending to Gene on a disk so he can show it to his wife and kids.

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