I don’t know about you but I’ve wondered just what Angus Productions, Inc. does. When I got into the media room at the Cattle Industry Convention early last week I saw these little cards promoting www.4cattlemen.com and they said it’s producted by API. That raised even more questions in my mind after visiting the site. So to learn more I …
Try to Guess Whose Boots These Are
Okay. Maybe this is too hard. So, I guess I can provide some clues. Such as, “she” works in farm broadcasting. So here’s how it works. The first person to correctly identify Whose Boots these are and post it in a comment here will win a ZimmComm Logo speaker for their iPod. Post Update: The guesses are good but not …
New CBB Chairman Dave Bateman
The Cattle Industry Convention is about over. I’ve got some posts to do still but you can also find a lot of additional interviews over on the Checkoff website – Beef Board Meeting.com. This morning the CBB welcomed a new chairman – Dave Bateman. Here’s Dave, hard at work at today’s annual meeting. After the meeting I did a short …
Honoring Paul Hitch
The beef industry honored Paul Hitch today at the general session. His family joined him on stage and he was presented with a plaque and accolades for all the work he’s done on behalf of the industry over the years. Paul’s a producer from Oklahoma. Paul was to be the next President of NCBA until illness struck which has prevented …
Peter Shinn Questions The Secretary
The press got to meet with our new Ag Secretary, Ed Schafer, after his speech today. Just so you can see what that’s like I shot a short video clip of a question asked by Brownfield’s Peter Shinn. He asks the secretary under what circumstances would he release some acres from CRP? 2008 Cattle Industry Convention Photo Album
A Couple of Johnsons
The ever lovely Executive Director of the Livestock Publications Council, Diane Johnson, has been here at the Cattle Industry Convention interacting with her peeps. I caught her outside the convention center at the end of the day with Todd Johnson, Executive Director of the Kansas Beef Council. No, they’re not related. Diane does a lot more than just run LPC. …
Secretary Ed Schafer and Me
Our Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Schafer, made his first major public policy speech today at the Cattle Industry Convention. Thanks to Andy Vance, Buckeye Ag Network, for snapping a picture for me. It was a pleasure for the ag media to get to meet Schafer. For many of us, it’s our first opportunity and I’m sure not our last. I’m …
Passionate About Beef
The Beef Ambassadors sure do a good job of getting out and promoting beef. I know passion about the product is necessary to be chosen and Jennifer Rassler, Kempton, PA is one of them. She decided to get involved since there are so many people in her area who are not educated about where their food comes from. She says …
Guess Whose Boots
It’s time once again for a Guess Who’s Boots post. So here’s how it works. The first person to correctly identify Whose Boots these are and post it in a comment here will win a ZimmComm Logo speaker for their iPod. Go ahead and give it a try. If needed I can post clues. Let’s see how you do first …
Boot Shine
Baxter Black has nothing to do with shining boots. He was just signing books at the booth next door while I got by boots shined. I got that done today at the Zinpro booth. While there I learned a lot about the art of shining boots from Mary Sawyers who is a professional and has been doing this for a …