I haven’t forgotten that we had a drawing at our NAMA booth. A winner was drawn (fair and randomly). I did not do the drawing. We had daughter Chelsea handle those duties. So, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Willie Vogt, Farm Progress Companies, wins a brand new, personalized iPod touch. You know he wants and needs one. …
Alltech Symposium Wrapup
The 2008 Alltech International Animal Health & Nutrition Symposium is over and Alltech President, Dr. Pearse Lyons, provided the final remarks. He summed up the key concepts that were focused on at the Symposium like the greenest generation, re-defining the industry, new technologies, new business practices, having fun and being socially responsible, supporting young people and re-defining education. Then he …
Conversations With Alltech Symposium Speakers
Here at the Alltech Symposium I did a series of video interviews with educational session speakers in addition to participants. They have all been posted to Alltech’s YouTube account. Here’s an example of one of them with Charlie Elrod, Ithaca, NY.
Type-A Cranberries
Cranberries pack a lot of punch. No, not juice, well, not just juice anyway. The Cranberry Marketing Committee reminds consumers how cranberries are packed with vitamins and antioxidants. Do you know anyone who’s a Type-A personality? A multi-tasking, go-getter? Well, if fruit could take personality tests, the cranberry would turn out to be Type-A. There’s a lot of good stuff …
Kids Go for Flavor
The Dairy Council of California says flavored milk does a child’s body good. That’s because, children drink up when chocolate, strawberry or vanilla is in the cup. Kids and teens, pour yourselves a tall one. Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry milk, that is. New research shows that drinking flavored milk increases overall milk intake and improves nutrition without adding extra weight. …
Zimfo Bytes
SelectVAC®, one of the industrys top branded preconditioning programs, recently enrolled its 3 millionth calf. A calf from John Putnams southwest South Dakota ranch received the unprecedented distinction. Putnam, a fourth generation cow/calf producer who works with his father, Lloyd, was eligible to win a years supply of SelectVAC products from Pfizer Animal Health. DuPont announced it has purchased an …
Discussion Group Dinners End The Day
This evening the Alltech Symposium ended with a series of simultaneous discussion group dinners. I went to the one on biofuels which was moderated by Dr. Mark Lyons. Here’s my table. Prior to the general discussion we ate and talked at our individual tables. At mine we had folks from the Dominican Republic, Philippines, Korea and the United States. It …
Feeding a Growing Population
The third person on the debate team for the Alltech Greenest Generation debate was Osler Desouzart, President of OD Consulting, Brazil. He is no soft spoken, hold back his feelings kind of guy and I like that. He got asked about his thoughts on how to feed the growing population of the world. My recorder ran out of batteries when …
David Byrne Speaks to Food Safety
After Mike Johanns got the first question in the Alltech Greenest Generation debate it was David Byrne’s turn. He is the former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. He was asked if we can capture consumer confidence on food safety and how can industry and regulators work together to achieve it. Of course he has a very significant amount …
Mike Johanns on Stage Again
Our former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is now running for the office of U.S. Senate and he’s still great talking about agriculture on stage. Here he is at the Alltech Symposium. The debate was for the most part very cordial. I think Johanns did a very good job of addressing the questions and talking to the issues in a very …