It’s a beautiful day to fly in Savannah, GA. And we’ve got a lot of pilots here at the National Agricultural Aviation Association convention. They fly for a living so I’m pretty sure they like having some time off and doing a little relaxing and learning. They’re all getting registered at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. I’ve got …
On The Road To Agricultural Aviation
The next stop on the agriblogging highway is the 44th annual convention and trade show for the National Agricultural Aviation Association. This year it is being held in Savannah, GA. AgWired coverage of this year’s event is being sponsored by BASF. Coverage should begin by Monday morning. I don’t know how many will be tweeting but I’m recommending the hashtag …
Facebook Gets New Holland T7 Adventure Game
The New Holland social media Facebook game, T7 Adventure, has been updated to include a level 2. The game was created for the launch of the new New Holland T7 Series Tractors. The game lets you test yourself and discover the new features of the tractor. And since it’s “social” you can share your score and challenge your friend. More …
New Precision Products From John Deere
When it comes to what’s new with John Deere Dan Hawkins (pictured on right) was ready, willing and able talk about them at the recent NAFB convention Trade Talk Session. Dan works in the Ag Management Solutions group. He says that John Deere brought three main products to market this year that include JD Link, GreenStar 3 display and StarFire …
Alltech Investing In Children
Aidan Connolly, VP, Alltech, was not in the booth when I did a walking photo shoot of the NAFB convention Trade Talk session but I got to interview him later. Pictured are Billy Frey and Susanna Elliott. Congratulations go to Aidan for being named an Associate Professor at University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) School of Business, for a five year period …
American Ethanol Will Power NASCAR
NASCAR is in the middle of making an announcement of a “major long-term partnership with American Ethanol which is being led by Growth Energy. You can see a video that was just published below. I hope to have some audio from the announcement added after the official public announcement which is taking place in Las Vegas as of this posting. …
Sara Palin Visits BCS Communications
The streets of Kansas City, MO were safe for a while last night while the party raged on at the BCS Communications Open House. Visiting was Sara Palin (not the Sarah). She took time to pose with just about everyone at some point. Yours truly was taking photos, some of which you can find online. I interviewed the partners of …
BCS Open House
It’s holiday time and that means open house at BCS Communications. Here are the B, the C and the S in their holiday outfits. Can you guess who is who? If you can’t then you should stop by this evening and find out. I’ll be there once again and am glad they ordered some clear weather this year.
AGROPRESS Celebrates 6 Years
Some of my friends I’ve come to know through the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists just held a big party in Serbia. Happy anniversary AGROPRESS and congratulations to Goran Djakovic! The Serbian Association of Agricultural Journalists AGROPRESS has celebrated its 6th ANNIVERSARY. On that occasion, more than 200 journalists, representatives of diplomatic corps, partner organizations, educational institutions, managers of companies …
Advocacy Starts With Weber Shandwick
The next stop in our series of conversations with agency leadership is Weber Shandwick. In this week’s program you’ll hear from JoDee George and David Krejci. Since our theme is all about “what’s new” you’ll hear them answer – Farm and Food Advocacy Practice. It’s a timely focus and one they’ve been working on for some time. As they told …