You may remember that Laura McNamara went to Honduras this summer and met with the Chorti Maya and a man who is working to help them increase their agricultural production, Billy Collins. There is a group of indigenous people in Honduras that live off an average of $300 a year… less than one dollar a day. At least two months …
Technorati Releasing Annual State of Blogosphere
Technorati, the blog indexing authority, is releasing its annual “State of the Blogosphere” in 5 installments. The first one is out and it’s got lots of interesting information, focusing on who is blogging. Bloggers Self-Identified as Personal, Professional, or Corporate Bloggers are not a homogenous group. One way of segmenting bloggers is by their blog type: * Personal: blog about …
Urban Farmer Receives MacArthur Fellow Award
An “urban farmer” has received one of the MacArthur Fellows awards. The MacArthur Foundation today named 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2008. This past week, the recipients learned in a single phone call from the Foundation that they will each receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years. The new Fellows work across a broad spectrum …
Georgia Peanut Tour Blog
I am so lame. I was supposed to alert you to the Georgia Peanut Tour before the tour. But guess what? This is the great thing about a blog. It’s archived! So take a look at what agriblogging professional Joy Carter did. I think she’s raising the bar for you ag group communications managers. I think Joy has been drinking …
The Goal of the BIVI Flex Symposium
Our emcee for the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium was Dr. Klaas Okkinga, Brand Manager, Ingelvac CircoFLEX. He says, “The goal of the symposium is to really bring the latest information that we find in trials we recently conducted, to share those with our customers, who in the past asked questions that these trials are hopefully answering.” Klaas was a little …
BIVI Research Behind The Scenes
Attending the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium from the corporate marketing group was Dr. Petra Maas. She is the Technical Manager for Ingelvac CircoFLEX. Her presentation was focused on a behind the scenes look at the research and development of Ingelvac CircoFLEX-MycoFLEX. She says the other speakers presented all the data, she just wanted to let attending veterinarians know more about …
Vaccination Comparison
“Qualifying Animal Responses to Various Immunization Protocols.” That’s the title of the talk given at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium by Dr. Keith Bretey. He’s a professional services veterinarian for BIVI. He says that basically means comparing the negative side effects of different vaccines. The BIVI products Ingelvac CircoFLEX and MycoFLEX were used in the study and he says they …
Vaccinations Make a Difference
Dr. Ernest Sanford came to the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium from Canada. He had some of the hottest new research to present. The title of his presentation was, “Impact of PCV2 Vaccination on Subclinical PCVAD Cases in Canada, France and U.S.” He says this topic has come up fairly recently and they’ve now got some new research data with some …
One Dose Is Enough
One of the speakers at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium was Dr. John Kolb. I met him at the company’s Animal Health Seminar last month. His topic was “Pig Performance with Ingelvac MycoFLEX vs. Two-Dose Vaccines.” At the Flex Symposium he presented research data that compared using this new single dose product vs. some of the competition’s that required two …
PCVAD Overview
The opening speaker at the Boehringer Ingelheim Flex Symposium was Dr. Edgar Diaz, DVM. He’s a technical manager for BIVI. His task was to provide a scientific overview of PCVAD (porcine circovirus associated disease). Dr. Diaz says that they’ve found the focus to be on vaccinations recently so he was on the agenda to talk about some new research in …