Representing the National Sorghum Producers on the Commodity Classic stage this morning was Chairman of the Board, Gerald Simonsen. We learned some interesting things about sorghum such as how 30 percent of the crop goes into ethanol and when it comes to export and food aid it’s big too. And last year sorghum was the number one requested food commodity …
Exports Vital To Wheat Growers
National Association of Wheat Growers President, Karl Scronce had his turn with Mark Mayfield on stage here at Commodity Classic. Exports and trade was the first subject to come up in the interview. Karl says exports are vitally important and the U.S. is the biggest exporter in the world. He says trade has been very sporadic depending on the time …
Biodiesel Tax Credit Needed Now
In the general session at Commodity Classic we heard from the President of the American Soybean Association, Rob Joslin. Rob was interviewed by session moderator Mark Mayfield. Rob says one of his goals has been to visit as many of the ASA state affiliates as he can and he’s over half way there. He thinks it’s important to know what …
NCGA President Takes The Stage
South Dakota Corn Grower, Darrin Ihnen, President of the National Corn Growers Association, took the general session stage this morning with session moderator Mark Mayfield. Mark had a list of questions for each of the commodity group leaders. With Darrin he started out talking about ethanol. Darrin talked about what the corn growers are doing in this area including pushing …
Sec. Vilsack Speaks At Commodity Classic
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke to the crowd at Commodity Classic just moments ago. You can listen to his full speech below. Joanna is attending his press conference right now and I’ll post audio from it later. Some of the standout phrases I heard included, “Different strategies for different markets” when he was talking about expanding world trade. …
NAMA Flips For New Members
Get a friend to join NAMA and be entered in a contest to win a Flip camera. That’s cool. Your friend will be entered too. Just get it done by April 12. Tell your friends, peers, and business associates how you benefit from being a member of NAMA – the learning and networking opportunities, skill development, access to agribusiness solutions, …
AgChat Tweetup at Commodity Classic
Here’s the AgChat tweetup group at Commodity Classic. By now you should know that a tweetup is an opportunity for fellow Twitterers to meet face to face at an event. In this case those who participate in the weekly AgChat Twitter conversation got together here for a little bit of networking. Cindy (@FarmPodcaster) took the photo from above us as …
NAFB at Commodity Classic
Members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting got together for their traditional Commodity Classic photo this evening during the media reception that was sponsored by New Holland. Our good buddy Gene Hemphill, New Holland, was on hand as we welcomed new Executive Director for NAFB, Mark Vail, who is in his first week on the job. More photos have …
Guess Whose Boots
It’s time once again for a Commodity Classic edition of Guess Whose Boots. The first person to post the correct answer in the comments of this post will win a prize from the ZimmComm New Media prize stash. I have no idea what that will be right now. So guess away. Commodity Classic Photo Album AgWired coverage of the 2010 …
Commodity Classic Trade Show Opens
The Commodity Classic Trade Show kicked off today and Cindy was there with a camera. Watch the ribbon cutting and start to the show which is where we’ve spent a lot of time this afternoon. Commodity Classic Photo Album AgWired coverage of the 2010 Commodity Classic is sponsored by: and