Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) announced that Tim Bettington has been named the senior associate director of swine marketing. Bettington has served the global animal health industry for over a decade. Asoyia has finalized an agreement with two key venture capital firms, securing $4 million to expand marketing, research and development of its ULTRA low linolenic soybean products. St. Louis-based …
Charlie Cook Talks Presidential Politics With BASF
At this evening’s BASF Media Summit dinner our speaker was political analyst Charlie Cook. Here he is getting interviewed before our meal. Charlie thinks we’re going to have a very close Presidential race and that there’s an event yet to happen that will have an important effect on the outcome. He says that Hillary is done and coming in for …
The BASF White House View
I don’t think Ray Gilmer, BASF Group Communications Manager, could have scripted a more perfect evening to close out their Media Summit here in Washington, DC. We just finished our final dinner on top of the Hay-Adams Hotel right across from the White House which makes a great background for a picture. I’ve got quite a few more in the …
BASF Innovating For The Future
Before I get to BASF innovation I just have to let you know this is post # 5,000 on AgWired. Talk about some new media innovation! Our first speaker this morning at the BASF Media Summit was Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, BASF Executive Board member. His job was to provide us with an overview of the company and a key word …
Video Interview With BASF Wine Cellar Hosts
I know I already posted an interview with our BASF Wine Cellar hosts but this morning I did one with video while I was broadcasting live. So for those of you who got to listen to Katja Schweder and Bernhard Wolff, now you can watch them. BASF Media Event Photo Album AgWired coverage of the BASF Media Summit is sponsored …
USDA Undersecretary Bruce Knight Speaks at BASF Media Summit
Wow. What a morning here at the BASF Media Summit. After doing some live video streaming, interviews, pictures and recordings we got to have lunch with USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Bruce Knight. Bruce talked about the farm bill of course. He used a description from a story in the Washington Post which called the current proposal “an …
BASF Media Summit Streaming Live
Apparently we’re going to be moving to different rooms this afternoon so this morning’s episode of AgWired Live TV is over but I have several recorded interviews like the following one with Mike Heinz, BASF President, Crop Protection Division. Thanks to all of you who watched and made it through our internet access disappearing for a few minutes.
Broadcasting Live From BASF Media Summit
I didn’t know we had internet access here in the BASF Media Summit presentation room so I had to move my set up but we’re live and I’m going to stay live for the rest of the day. You can see the live stream showing up on my Mac here in the back of the room. Right now we’re near …
BASF Media Summit Underway
The BASF Media Summit is underway and we’ve got a big group of journalists here. I didn’t count but most seats are filled. I’m recording the presentations and will be doing one on one interviews with each of them as well as having some on AgWired Live TV at the times listed in the last post. Our first speaker, Dr. …
AgWired Live TV Schedule Today
Here’s the schedule for when I intend to be live on AgWired Live TV. 10:15 – 10:30am 12:00 – 12:15 3:00 – 4:00pm, eastern time. Approx. live break times. Our sessions are across the hall in a different room where I don’t have internet access so I’m going to be be bringing people to the media room for some live …