Many of you AgWired readers probably congratulated Ken Anderson last week at the NAMA Convention for his new position with Ayres Kahler as VP/Director of Public Relations. I saw him the first night I was in KC and learned the news. Feel free to send him your congrats when you get a chance. In his new position, Anderson is responsible …
Podcasting’s Solid Growth
Speaking of podcasting, an article out today on eMarketer speaks to the value of the niche audiences created by topical podcasts. According to long-tail theory, these targeted audiences should be especially valuable to advertisers and marketers. Although the audiences are small, each listener or viewer is very interested in the subject, and the audiences should therefore carry commensurately higher ad …
USDA FSIS Begins Podcasting
Podcasting is becoming more mainstream all the time. Now USDA’s FSIS is using this great new media communications tool. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today launched a series of educational podcasts tailored to address food safety and education issues for consumers and other stakeholders. As a part of the Agency’s ongoing outreach efforts …
Willie Vogt Wins iPod touch From ZimmComm
I haven’t forgotten that we had a drawing at our NAMA booth. A winner was drawn (fair and randomly). I did not do the drawing. We had daughter Chelsea handle those duties. So, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Willie Vogt, Farm Progress Companies, wins a brand new, personalized iPod touch. You know he wants and needs one. …
Alltech Symposium Wrapup
The 2008 Alltech International Animal Health & Nutrition Symposium is over and Alltech President, Dr. Pearse Lyons, provided the final remarks. He summed up the key concepts that were focused on at the Symposium like the greenest generation, re-defining the industry, new technologies, new business practices, having fun and being socially responsible, supporting young people and re-defining education. Then he …
Conversations With Alltech Symposium Speakers
Here at the Alltech Symposium I did a series of video interviews with educational session speakers in addition to participants. They have all been posted to Alltech’s YouTube account. Here’s an example of one of them with Charlie Elrod, Ithaca, NY.
Discussion Group Dinners End The Day
This evening the Alltech Symposium ended with a series of simultaneous discussion group dinners. I went to the one on biofuels which was moderated by Dr. Mark Lyons. Here’s my table. Prior to the general discussion we ate and talked at our individual tables. At mine we had folks from the Dominican Republic, Philippines, Korea and the United States. It …
Feeding a Growing Population
The third person on the debate team for the Alltech Greenest Generation debate was Osler Desouzart, President of OD Consulting, Brazil. He is no soft spoken, hold back his feelings kind of guy and I like that. He got asked about his thoughts on how to feed the growing population of the world. My recorder ran out of batteries when …
David Byrne Speaks to Food Safety
After Mike Johanns got the first question in the Alltech Greenest Generation debate it was David Byrne’s turn. He is the former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. He was asked if we can capture consumer confidence on food safety and how can industry and regulators work together to achieve it. Of course he has a very significant amount …
Mike Johanns on Stage Again
Our former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is now running for the office of U.S. Senate and he’s still great talking about agriculture on stage. Here he is at the Alltech Symposium. The debate was for the most part very cordial. I think Johanns did a very good job of addressing the questions and talking to the issues in a very …