You can listen to my interview with Rick Tolman, CEO, NCGA here: Commodity Classic 1. Rick talks about the jointly run annual meeting of ASA and NCGA. He says that they’ve actually formed a separate corporation with farmer board members from each organization to run this meeting and there is a separate full time staff that works on it all …
First Press Conference Completed
At the first press conference Leon Corzine, President, NCGA, made a speech to a large gathering of media.
Commodity Classic Newsroom – We Need More Internet Access Points
Here’s some working journalists at the Commodity Classic. This is the very small area set up with internet access. There’s actually a line waiting to get connected. Thanks to Jeff Nalley, pictured in the back, interviewing Rick Tolman, CEO, NCGA, we have a multiple access switch which allows more reporters to get connected to the interne! To the right is …
In The Commodity Classic Newsroom
Hi from Austin. I made it and am in the convention center newsroom. Sitting here among a bunch of reporters like Jeff Nalley, from Kentucky (Cromwell Ag Media) and Michelle Rook from South Dakota(WNAX), Sara Wyant from Illinois, (Agripulse) and others. C5 internet connection jacks are at a premium here. Commodity Classic needs to double the connections or arrange for …
Posting From The Plane In Dallas
On my way to Austin. I had to get one of those connection cards for my notebook. It’s not broadband speed but I’m connected. I can’t believe how many Blackberry’s I’ve seen this morning on the plane and airports. They must be doing good. People are walking around talking and typing. It’s almost weird to see this many. Maybe they’re …
Blogging My Way To Austin & Back
It’s almost Commodity Classic time. Well some folks are already there. I’ll be heading that way tomorrow and will be providing reports on what I see, hear and participate in. I can tell you that the trade show and press conferences alone would keep a person busy full time for 3 days. You should see the press conference invitations and …
Blogs About Agriculture
I was looking around and found some ag-related blogs I thought you might be interested in taking a look at: Extension DailyCowboy CommentaryGreen Digit Didn’t see much else on this search. Know of any? Please pass them along.
Ahh, Swiss Agriculture
We all know that the world has become much smaller due to new technologies. Journalists of all kinds are travelling all over the world covering agricultural news and information. We’ve got friends outside the country right now on the Valmont World Tour for example. You may be familiar with a number of professional improvement groups here in the U-S like …
2,803 Reporters! Over 6,000 Radio Stations!
Yes, I’m still bragging about it. That’s a lot of radio stations and reporters. I know I wrote about this in my last post. But I think it should be repeated. If you had us send your Talking News Release to our complete reporter database, that’s how many would be on the receiving end. Where else can you get your …
Here’s How Many News Directors We Can Email To
After doing a little updating on our radio station news director database I thought you might be interested in a little bit of analysis. We get asked these questions all the time. We have individual email addresses for 2,803 different radio reporters across the United States. However, they work for and are heard on over 6,000 radio stations! A few …