Here’s our group of agricultural journalists at rapt attention today at the Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Medicine Research and Development facilities. Although we sat in a meeting room most of the day we did get a break to go into a wet lab. Tomorrow its a tour around the farm as described below. The region’s facilities serve as the global …
Staying At Historic Brook Lodge
Wow. What a day. Talk about getting to know more about a company and their products. That’s what we got to do at Pfizer Animal Health VMRD Headquarters today. Before heading out there we did have our news conference here at Brook Lodge where we’re staying. The rest of the day involved a lot of presentations and a wet lab …
Pfizer Announces SelectVAC Partnerships
Right now Don Sauder, Pfizer Animal Health, VP, U.S. Cattle Operations is speaking about two new announcements involving the Pfizer SelectVAC preconditioning program. I’m going to interview him as soon as we break and post that later. The first announcement is that Superior Livestock Auction has chosen SelectVAC as the preferred health program for calves sold through their auction. According …
Writing From Pfizer Media Event
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 …