The 2011 Commodity Classic had a rock and roll ending. The evening entertainment was the Little River Band. I think they played most of their hits and a couple of songs with a new twist. They sounded great and a little loud but then that’s what I remember when Cindy and I saw them a long time ago. The coolest …
AAEA Relaxes At Commodity Classic
The American Agricultural Editors Association held a reception for members attending this year’s Commodity Classic. Quite a few of the 126 members of the ag media attended including past president Karen Simon, Iowa Soybean Association. I spoke with Karen and Willie Vogt, Farm Progress Companies, about this summer’s Ag Media Summit. Karen is the Conference Chair and Willie is chairing …
Self Propelled Guardians From New Holland
The biggest machine in the New Holland booth at this year’s Commodity Classic is their Guardian Rear Boom Sprayer. There wasn’t enough space for it to “spread its wings” though. I talked with Tyler Roberts about the self propelled sprayers now being made by New Holland. Tyler says these machines are ready to get out in the field after being …
The Technical Side of AgHaven
The Chief Technology Officer for AgHaven is Pat McGinty. He’s responsible for the software that runs AgHaven. We talked about their agricultural search engine which is really tweaking the interest of a lot of people. He says that it allows for search results specific to agriculture. It’s not search results from other search engines. He says they crawl the web …
Classic Commodity Group Unity
We’re talking commodity group unity here at Commodity Classic. Here’s the leaders of each of the participating groups, Bart Schott, NCGA, Alan Kemper, ASA, Gerald Simonsen, NAWG and Jerry McReynolds, NSP. Emceeing this morning’s general session once again was Mark Mayfield. He asked them each to answer the question, “What are you doing to enhance public trust and what efforts …
New Holland Sponsors Classic Media Room
Our sponsor New Holland is also sponsoring the media room. Cindy took a photo of me with Gene Hemphill, New Holland and good friend. We’ve covered some miles over the years and I’m very proud to be working with Gene once again here at Classic. This evening New Holland also sponsored the annual reception for the media. We had some …
New Holland Rustler Giveaway
New Holland provide one lucky Commodity Classic registrant a big prize again this year. All growers who completed the demographic information on their registration forms were automatically entered. The prize this year was a Rustler 120 utility vehicle! The winner is Brock Millan, Millan Farms, Mitchell, SD pictured in the seat of the vehicle along with Gene Hemphill, New Holland …
AgHaven An Ag Destination
New AgWired sponsor AgHaven is now ready for anyone in the agricultural industry to sign up. You can create a free account and use their one of a kind search engine or get social with their built in social networking tools. This morning I spoke with Srik Soogoor, President (pictured left), who gave me some background on how the idea …
Commodity Classic Trade Show Ribbon Cutting
The Commodity Classic trade show is now in session right after a ribbon cutting. I was a little slow on the trigger but there was a ribbon up there. During the special time the media gets to attend before the show is open to all attendees Cindy and I took some photos and did some interviews which we’ll be posting …
Classic Weather in Tampa
Hello from Tampa, FL. It’s warm and sunny and that’s a welcome relief for farmers who have been dealing with some pretty severe winter weather. Cindy and I are set up in the New Holland sponsored media room. We waited until this morning to get our photo album started. Attending various company media events yesterday didn’t allow us good internet …