The St. Louis Agribusiness Club has gone through a number of changes since it was started many years ago. To learn how things are going with this unique organization I spoke with the current leadership. Here’s Molly Cline, President and Wendell Knehans, Vice President. We visited at last week’s regular club meeting. Molly says this is the 30th year for …
BASF Sponsors ASA Educational Podcasts
BASF is sponsoring a series of educational podcasts for the American Soybean Association. Here are three currently in the list that you might be interested in: This podcast recaps the 2011 soybean growing season with BASF Technical Market Manager, Nick Fassler. Developed by the American Soybean Association, this educational podcast is designed to provide growers with the latest information about …
Seasons Greetings From U.S. Wheat Associates
Here’s a multi-lingual greeting from our friends at U.S. Wheat Associates.
ZimmComm On The Beach
Yeah. It sounds like a specialty adult beverage I know. Maybe Cindy and I will invent one while we’re here! It’s sand and surf in the sunshine state. Time for a little R&R. The way we look at it, we’re guaranteed a white Christmas! But that doesn’t mean you’ll be missing anything on AgWired during the holidays. Far from it …
Patrick Delaney Joins ASA As Communications Director
Here is Patrick Delaney in action prior to joining the American Soybean Association as Communications Director. Patrick will be based in ASA’s Washington Policy Representative Office of Gordley Associates in Washington, DC. “ASA is pleased to welcome Patrick to our team,” Censky said. “His experience in ag policy communications will serve him well in his role with ASA, where he …
Alltech Holiday Greetings
Okay folks. This holiday greeting might be hard to beat. It’s a personalized greeting that includes a link to world class opera seasonal music which I just finished listening to. Here’s the message and link: Season’s Greetings from Alltech Dear Chuck and Cindy, We thank you for your support in 2011 and wish you and your family the very best …
Utah State University Holiday Greetings
It’s holiday greeting time. It’s also Christmas time too you know. I’m going to feature some of the holiday greetings we get here once again this year. We get so many that are creative and just plain good looking that they need to be seen by more eyeballs! Here’s one from Utah State University which came with this message: Greetings! …
AgChat Foundation Hires Executive Director
Big news from the AgChat Foundation today! Welcome Emily Zweber as the first Executive Director. It seems like it has been a long time coming to some of us board members but really, it hasn’t been. In fact, the AgChat Foundation is less than two years old. So let’s meet Emily: Zweber, an organic dairy farmer from Elko, Minn., will …
A FAPRI Farm Market Outlook
Patrick Westhoff is the Director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri–Columbia and a professor in the MU department of agricultural and applied economics. He was also our St. Louis Agribusiness Club speaker yesterday. I spoke with him beforehand since I had to leave early. He says his job was to talk about …
PRRS Seminar Wrapup
The Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica staff veterinarian with a focus on PRRS, the swine disease that so many are trying to eliminate, is Dr. Reid Philips. Reid was on hand for this year’s PRRS ARC&E Seminar. I asked Reid to provide a wrapup viewpoint about how this year’s seminar went. He says this year’s program came together really well. The seminar …