Alltech does so many things it takes a while just to list them and understand them. A new venture is the production of “Lyons Reserve,” the first ever Kentucky Malt Whiskey. Here’s Alltech President, Dr. Pearse Lyons, presenting the first bottle to Kentucky Governor, Steve Beshear. I’d say the Governor did well at today’s Nutrigenomics Center ribbon cutting! Dr. Lyons …
Alltech Founder Dr. Pearse Lyons
Alltech’s founder and President, Dr. Pearse Lyons, is holding up a gene chip. It’s what the company’s new, first-of-it’s-kind Nutrigenomics Center is all about. Dr. Lyons says that when he started his career he could only dream about the type of laboratory that the researchers here will be working in. I, along with everyone at Alltech, am very excited about …
Alltech Hosts Kentucky Governor
Kentucky’s Governor, Steve Beshear was on hand this morning to cut the ribbon to open the Alltech Nutrigenomics Center. He says that he’d love to see a facility like this in every county in the state. He wants Kentucky to project an image of a state that encourages technology, industry and engineering as well as race horses and good bourbon. …
Alltech Opens Nutrigenomics Center
Today Alltech opened the first ever Nutrigenomics Center at its headquarters in Lexington, KY. This state of the art facility will be employing 80 researchers doing cutting edge research in nutrition and genomics. Nutrigenomics is the study of the relationship between diet and gene expression. To officially open the center, a ribbon cutting was held this morning with Alltech President, …
Alltech Receives DOE Grant For Ethanol Plant
The Alltech Symposium agriblogger has arrived in Lexington, KY, still just a little bit NAMA lagged (kind of like jet lag). I’m in the Radisson right across the street from the convention center. There’s going to be lots of news from here and on the Alltech Symposium Blog. But we’ve already got news. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded grants …
NAMA Bombers Hit The Highway
The NAMA Bombers apparently had a good ride this year. It certainly wasn’t as long as last year though. Here’s a couple of them. I’ll let you identify them. Thanks to Jerry Povenmire for sending along a few photos. They have been added to the Conference photo album. 2008 Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album
NAMA Withdrawal
Yes, things were getting a little out of hand at the Best of NAMA Awards this week. This is one of my favorite pictures from the Conference. I think this convention will rank right up there as one of the busiest and best I’ve been to. Having almost 1,100 people there is awesome. If I didn’t get to chat then …
Audio Recorders
I’ve been asked by so many ag journalists which digital audio recorder to buy that I thought I’d do a post on it so I can just send the link the next time I get the request. I have multiple recorders and usually travel with 2 of them. I’ll list them in the order of my favorites here with a …
Postcards From Kansas City
Once again this year, Carol Anderson is helping keep NAMA members who cant attend the conference up to date on whats happening with a daily email called, Postcards from Kansas City. Here’s the copy from yesterday’s: Greetings from Kansas City! Thursday, April 17, 2008 The 2008 Agri-Marketing Conference in underway at Kansas Citys Hyatt Regency Hotel. Nearly 1,100 agrimarketers are …
Guess Whose Boots
While you’re looking through AgWired coverage of the NAMA Convention try to guess whose boots these are. They were seen at Howl at the Moon last night. I know it was kind of dark inside but you should be able to figure this one out pretty quickly. The first person to correctly guess by posting a comment here gets an …