I love it when I see a group “get it.” I mean get this new media thing. The Agriculture Institute of Florida is having Josh Hallett as a speaker for their upcoming annual meeting. You do know who Josh is don’t you? Downloading podcasts and checking blogs may not be standard practices for farmers, but that may soon change. As …
Lots of Corn in Latest USDA Forecast
Since I know how much this kind of information affects so many of you (me too) I thought you might want to see the latest USDA crop forecast information. Remember that you can hear an analysis of it each month from the Minneapolis Grain Exchange podcast. Of course if you subscribe to the USDA NASS news feed you might already …
Pfizer Suggest Paradigm Shift
One of the Pfizer Animal Health specialists we met this week at their media event in Kalamazoo was Dr. Gordon Brumbaugh. He’s an anti-infective specialist in their Cattle-Specialty Veterinary Operations. The theme of his talk was a “Paradigm Shift.” Basically he wants to challenge producers to think in new ways now that there are products on the market that work …
The State of ACE and Ethanol
Things are winding down here at the ACE Convention. Looking very relaxed this morning was the executive vice president of the American Coalition for Ethanol, Brian Jennings. He gave the state of the industry and organization speech yesterday. I interviewed Brian this morning to find out what he thinks about how things are going in the ethanol industry and especially …
Pfizer Animal Health’s R&D Investment
The executive director for Pfizer Animal Health’s Global Clinical Development is Dr. Bill Baker. He’s responsible for managing the staff and budgets for this group of 120 individuals. At the media event this week he gave us an overview of Pfizer’s Veterinary Medicine Research and Development which is the research organization that has 700 staff in total. He says that …
Pawlenty and Peterson At ACE
We had a couple of politicians with us here today at the ACE Convention. The first one on stage was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. When I asked him about his vision for the future of ethanol in Minnesota he said he wants to be the benchmark state for the rest of the country on the development, use and availability of …
Looking Down on AgriTalk
I don’t mean that the way it sounds. I was actually looking down on AgriTalk just a few minutes ago when they were doing their show live here at the ACE Convention. In the picture Mike Adams is interviewing ACE executive vice president, Brian Jennings. This takes care of the AgriTalk road picture portion on my ACE Convention coverage. It’s …
American Coalition for Ethanol Convention Underway
The American Coalition for Ethanol convention got kicked off yesterday. I might have made it to the opening trade show reception except for United Airlines problems again. But I’m here now enjoying a very large media room. This morning the trade show was the first order of business before breakout sessions. We’ll have an opening general session this afternoon featuring …
Jay Leno Talks Biodiesel With Joe Jobe
Hello from the American Coalition for Ethanol convention in St. Paul, MN. Before I get into some ethanol coverage though I’ve got a biodiesel story for you. You might remember that I went out to Burbank earlier this year with Joe Jobe, National Biodiesel Board and Gene Hemphill, New Holland to visit Jay Leno’s Garage. While we were there Jay …
Seeing The Pfizer Manufacturing Site
Day two of the Pfizer Animal Health Media Event started out in a serious rain storm. I sure wish we’d had some of this back home. Here’s most of our group getting ready to board the buses this morning to go to our first stop. We went to the Pfizer Global Manufacturing Site to see where they make products and …