There were several PCVAD Research awards presented at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium. A double award recipient was Tanja Opriessnig, DVM, PhD, seen here in front of the attendees. BI is providing $25,000 cash grants to the winners of the PCVAD Research Awards for their projects. Tanja will be working on two different studies as follows: * a study to …
A Sweet Surprise From Corn Refiners
I love these new ads about high fructose corn syrup from the Corn Refiners Association. The fact that they have to make them shows what kind of an ignorant consuming public we have that doesn’t want to take responsibility for what or how much it eats. Here’s one of them: Find more videos like this on AdGabber You can get …
Farm Progress Re-Designs Websites
Farm Progress has re-designed their websites. They’re calling it a new “internet portal.” Farm Progress has redesigned its state and regional magazines’ Web sites to provide readers with a more feature-packed and flexible Internet portal. The introduction is more than a redesign and its functionality is not found elsewhere in agricultural media Web sites. The sites have a totally different …
Flex Symposium Full
The Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium is underway in St. Paul, MN. We’ve got several presentations taking place right now and I’ve already interviewed all of them. I’ll probably be posting them by Monday since I’ll be traveling home on Sunday. We had to bring in more chairs because the attendance at this year’s Symposium is larger than expected. Now isn’t …
Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium
This afternoon Boehringer Ingelheim will be holding a “Flex Symposium.” I’ll be attending to conduct some interviews and take pictures. Our program includes: PCVAD Scientific Overview – Dr. Edgar Diaz Pig Performance with Ingelvac MycoFLEX® vs. Two-dose Vaccines – Dr. John Kolb Impact of PCV2 Vaccination on Subclinical PCVAD Cases in Canada, France and U.S. – Dr. Emest Sanford Qualifying …
Traditional Slovenia Dancing
I mentioned traditional Slovenian dance in an earlier post and that’s what we saw at our final dinner of the IFAJ Congress. IFAJ Congress 2008 Photo Album AgWired coverage of IFAJ 2008 is sponsored by: and
Farm Aid Today
If you’re looking for something to watch today besides college football, then you might want to tune in to Farm Aid. Farm Aid 2008 Presented by Whole Foods Market and Horizon Organic is today! Doors open at noon and the music starts shortly after. If you’re not coming to the show, watch all the action on in HD on DIRECTV …
Dancing To Quasimojo
I don’t know when the first Quasimojo performance was at an IFAJ event but they’re still going strong. This year’s Congress found them playing on stage after our final dinner in Portoroz, Slovenia. We had just finished all the speeches and awards and were full and it was late. The band has a kind of flexible membership and somehow seems …
Pumpkin Seed Oil
A year before the IFAJ Congress 2008 we were given packets of pumpkin seeds to plant and then we were supposed to send in or bring photos of our pumpkin plants. I tried but let’s just say growing pumpkins isn’t one of my things. We saw lots of pumpkin fields but never got to visit any when we were in …
Slovenia Ag Group
While we were in Slovenia at the IFAJ Congress one of our hosts was Ciril Smrkolj who is President of the Slovenia Agriculture and Forestry Chamber, a primary ag group in the country. I spoke with him at our closing dinner. He’s very much a pro-agriculture kind of guy. He says that his organization does work on promotion and marketing. …