Scott Asher is a BASF Diversified Regional Manager. He spoke today at their Cotton Consultants Conference and provided some technical information about the product. Scott says that BASF has a variety of activities planned for growers here that ranges from this session to a nightly hospitality suite and trade show booth. He says that communication with consultants is important and …
A Headline Cotton Yield Advantage
One of the experts on the program at the BASF Cotton Consultants Conference is Amber Shirley, BASF Technical Marketing Manager. Amber says that having Headline, a foliar fungicide, available for the first time means that cotton growers now have the full range of plant protection products available to them that other commodity growers have. She says that using a fungicide …
Headline Making Cotton Headlines
Kicking off the BASF Cotton Consultants Conference is Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF Technical Market Manager. Dr. Fellows started things off by announcing that Headline fungicide is now registered for cotton. He says that 4 years worth of field trials are showing great results. Many of the cotton consultants here were hearing the news for the first time. The conference provided …
Cotton Consultants Conference
What better way to kick things off at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences than having lunch with your sponsor? Right now a large group of consultants is having lunch at the BASF Consultants Information Session in the good old Opryland Hotel. The first fungicide registered for cotton is Headline and that’s basically the news headline here at this session. We’ve got …
MO Governor Supports Agriculture
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt addressed a big crowd in St. Louis today at his annual ag conference. I think attendance is up this year and people got here even with a major interstate in the area closed for construction. This is a real who’s who in Missouri agriculture. The conference actually takes place over two days with lots of speakers …
Ag Media Break
The farm media is here in St. Louis at the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture. They don’t always work though. Not all of these guys work for AgriTalk. One of them does. They seem to be on break right now. I didn’t know there was such a thing. Shortly after this photo it was time for lunch and a personal …
Ali Kauffman Joins Meyocks Group
Ali Kauffman is brave enough to start work at the Meyocks Group as a new account coordinator. Kauffman had worked with the agency as a graduate intern and previously was a marketing and communications intern at The Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. She is a native of Odebolt, Iowa. Kauffman earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass …
Gateway Governor’s Ag Lunch
The Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture got kicked off this evening and I’m not there. But I will be for lunch tomorrow. Right now I’m missing the Taste of AgriMissouri. If you’ve never been then I can tell you you’re missing a great party and some good food. I think this is the first time the conference has been held …
Orchestrating Opportunities at Beltwide
It’s off to Nashville this week and the Beltwide Cotton Conferences. Home will be the Opryland Hotel where several thousand growers, consultants and assorted industry representatives will be getting together. It’s been a few years since I’ve been to Beltwide so I’m really looking forward to seeing some old friends. This year’s theme is “Orchestrate Your Opportunities.” That’s sort of …
Sociable Beef Breeds
It’s time to hit the agricultural marketing highway once again. Actually I did that Friday when I did some blog training in Kansas City before attending the Beef Breeds Social. This year it was held at the American Hereford Association offices. It was very well attended and we of course ate some very good beef. Before things got too sociable …