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 …
Challenges For Dairy Farmers
Next up from the recent NAFB convention Trade Talk session is the Dairy Farmers of America. I spoke with Jackie Klippenstein, VP, Industry and Legislative Affairs. Jackie says that priorities for DFA include making sure new legislators are familiar with the needs of dairy farmers. She says the industry lost some long time supporters in the recent election. Looking ahead …
Death Tax and the White House
It looks like the death tax is going to be really hard for Washington legislators to ignore. There are 31 ag groups making sure of it. They sent a letter to President Obama today “urging immediate, permanent and meaningful estate tax reform.” Anyone with a lick of common sense would know that if estate taxes are allowed to be reinstated …
New Research From Beef Checkoff
Some of the latest research being conducted by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board includes environmental footprint research, changes to the National Beef Cook-Off and new lean cuts of meat. To talk about them at the recent NAFB convention Trade Talk session was Robert Fountain, Jr., CBB Secretary/Treasurer. I thought the environmental footprint research sounded especially interesting. Interesting but sad that money …
Vote For AGCONNECT Expo 2011 Advocating For Agriculture Awards
It’s time to vote for the AGCONNECT Expo 2011 “Advocating For Agriculture Awards.” AG CONNECT Expo 2011 is proud to announce the finalists for its “Advocating for Agriculture” Awards. It’s now up to you to determine the Grand Prize winner for each category by voting online from November 24 – December 9, 2010. Meet our finalists by reading their nominations …
Free iPhone App on Cyber Monday
On Cyber Monday you iPhone people can get a freebie. Join the nearly 1,000 who already have the first agricultural news media app for the iPhone – the AgWired iPhone App. The app offers one-touch access to all the latest news and information in the agribusiness and agricultural marketing world posted on Agwired.com, including audio, photos and video, and connections …
CHS Growing With Renewable Fuels
Mark Fenner, CHS Energy (not pictured), was one of the people working during the NAFB Trade Talk session. He says that they market under the Cenex brand. They’ve been selling a lot of diesel fuel products and the new Tier 4 engines are a real focus for them. Trends in the renewable fuels area have a definite effect on them. …