FarmPolicy.com Publisher Blogging From Europe

Chuck Zimmerman

Farm Policy blogger Keith Good is really getting into it and doing a great job. I’ve been watching him blog from a European trip he’s on sponsored by the German Marshall Fund (EU Journalism Study Tour). He’s posting pictures like this one of Ursula Soyez, a Program Officer with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and Charles …

Farm Policy, International

How About Using More Internet Video

Chuck Zimmerman

I think some of the first people I spoke to about YouTube just laughed and I think they were laughing at me and the whole idea of uploading simple little videos to an internet site that makes them public. Well read on here and see if I’m crazy. The Kelsey Group just released the results of a survey they conducted …

Internet

Healthy Canadian Animals

Chuck Zimmerman

As Canadian Animal Health Institute president says, “Healthy animals make for healthy humans.” You can hear her point of view on that in this week’s program. You can also hear a song from Ric Seaberg called “Hog Line” from the Podsafe Music Network. Jean Szkotnicki is the president of the CAHI and in my interview with her at their annual …

Ag Groups, Audio, International

Cotton Seed Company Musical Chairs

Chuck Zimmerman

It looks like Monsanto’s acquisition of Delta and Pine Land Company is making progress. Monsanto Company announced today that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that will allow it to complete its proposed acquisition of Delta and Pine Land Company. Under terms of the agreement, which was filed today in Federal Court in Washington, …

Agribusiness, Cotton

Satellite Broadband Internet Access

Chuck Zimmerman

This is a freebie plug for HughesNet only because I just saw a commercial for them on the monitor in the little bistro here in Buffalo airport. The announcer asked if you lived in an area where broadband internet access was unavailable and told how that’s no longer the case with their satellite internet packages. I looked them up to …

Internet

Presenting New Media At CAHI

Chuck Zimmerman

Here we are in the meeting room for my morning presentation to the Canadian Animal Health Institute annual meeting. I’m talking about blogging and podcasting. Right after we’re done I’ll be heading on home but I’ll try to get some additional posts done along the way. This is a demo post as some of you are familiar with seeing when …

Ag Groups, Animal Health, Audio, International

CAHI Recognizes Its Leaders

Chuck Zimmerman

The Canadian Animal Health Institute has started the CAHI Recognizing It’s Leaders Award which might normally go to one person. Tonight it went to 3 people who CAHI president, Jean Szkotnicki called her three wise men. They are (pictured left to right), Dr. Paul Wilson, Bayer, Inc., Dr. Bruce Groves, Pfizer Canada, Inc. and Dr. Paul Doig, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada). …

Ag Groups, Animal Health, International

CAHI Industry Leader Stan Eby

Chuck Zimmerman

One of the awards presented here tonight at the Canadian Animal Health Institute dinner was the Industry Leadership Award. This year’s recipient is Stan Eby for his efforts on behalf of the Canadian cattle industry. Stan has served as president of the Ontario and Canadian Cattlemen’s Associations and during some trying times like the BSE crisis.

Ag Groups, Animal Health, International

Eating With CAHI Progressively

Chuck Zimmerman

Tonight at the Canadian Animal Health Institute Awards dinner it was set up as a progressive dinner. I’ve never been on one of these but it’s a cool idea. Basically every table is numbered and at your first seat you receive a card which tells you which table you go to next and then you rotate to one more. They’re …

Ag Groups, Animal Health, International

Near The Niagra

Chuck Zimmerman

I’ve only ever been through Niagra Falls once before and a long time. It’s just as pretty as I remember it. This is a view of the river below the falls I took while waiting in line for Canadian customs this afternoon. I’m here at the White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa and getting ready to head to the reception …

Ag Groups, Animal Health