It’s Monday morning and I’m in Michigan getting ready for a couple of days with Pfizer Animal Health. We’re going to hear an announcement from the company here in just about an hour and I should be able to post that by midday if all goes well. This is a Pfizer researcher at work and later today we’ll be in …
Meet The New Presidents of AAEA and LPC
I’m getting a lot more work done in airports today than I planned on thanks to United Airlines. My short connection in O’Hare turned into a 4 hour (I hope it doesn’t get worse) delay waiting for the next flight to Kalamazoo after several hours delay getting out of St. Louis. Lots of people in my boat since you could …
NAFB Board Meets At Ag Media Summit
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting held a board meeting at the Ag Media Summit last week. Does this mean the group’s giving some consideration to getting with the program? I don’t know. A presentation was made to the group by folks representing the AMS though. Here’s some happy looking NAFB’ers bellying up at Huber Winery last week. I don’t …
CHS Buys The DDG Business From CSC
Those DDG’s must have some value eh? CHS , a leading grains, food and energy company, and Commodity Specialists Company (CSC) have entered into a definitive purchase agreement for CHS to acquire the distillers dried grain (DDG) marketing business of CSC. The transaction has been approved by the boards of both companies and is scheduled to become effective in the …
Dry Corn to the Right Dry Beans to the Left
It’s getting a little dry here in parts of the midwest. This is corn on the right side of me as I was out and about this morning. It’s not the worst that I saw when I was driving back from Louisville, KY on Wednesday though. I think the worst was in Illinois. I’m sure it’s not a good feeling …
Talking Nebraska Pork
I just got the latest edition of the Pork Industry Report from the Nebraska Pork Producers Association delivered to me. You can listen to this week’s program here: ne-pork.mp3 Now this should be in an rss feed which would make it a podcast! I looked all over the website but didn’t see it set up as such. NE Pork Talk …
The Next Agriblogging Destinations
The traveling agriblogger is going to take most of the next day and a half off before hitting the road again so you may not see much new from me until the end of the weekend. But then it’s off to new places. The first stop next week is Richland, MI for an event with Pfizer Animal Health titled, “Delivering …
The Canadian Urban Cowboy Blogs
Thanks to Kyle Maw for reminding me about the Urban Cowboy and his blog. Owen Roberts was one of the judges of the AMS Idol competition at the Ag Media Summit btw. I’m looking forward to visiting the University of Guelph later this year (next month) to conduct a day long class in new media for graduate ag communications students. …
Cheryl Schmura to Lead CHS Crop Nutrients
CHS, Inc. will have a new VP for its Crop Nutrients operations. Cheryl Schmura will be taking on those duties. Schmura previously was vice president and chief financial officer for Agriliance LLC, the jointly owned agronomic inputs company of CHS and Land O’Lakes, Inc. The two companies announced in June that CHS will acquire the Agriliance crop nutrients business, while …
Strumming His Blag
He’s John Walter and actually he was strumming a guitar at the Ag Media Summit. John’s the editor of Agriculture Online and the new president of the American Agricultural Editors Association. John does have a blog though. Or maybe I should say a Blag? If you blog about ag I guess that makes it a blag. It’s Blaggin’ on Ag. …