This week’s program contains interviews with Alltech founder, Dr. Pearse Lyons and Owen Roberts, University of Guelph. You can also hear a song from Jen Elliott and Bluestruck called “Curse on You” from the Podsafe Music Network. Dr. Pearse Lyons founded Alltech in 1980 and his company has grown into an international agribusiness. Each year he holds a Symposium for …
Meyocks Team Grows
The Meyocks Group has added two new team members and the president is pleased. Kristin Oelmann joins the agency as an account coordinator. Previously she was a marketing coordinator with Iowa Realty/First Realty GMAC in West Des Moines. A native of Ackley, Iowa, Oelmann earned a bachelor’s degree in communication arts at Wartburg College in 2006. Angel Modtland, a former …
Indy Race Week Is Here
I sure hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about where I’m going next. This time it’s another ethanol related adventure in Indianapolis. It’s race week folks and that means working with the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council once again. I’m heading east today and there are activities scheduled through race time on Sunday. For example, on Thursday, we’re going …
DTN Acquires Quickfarm
According to a letter I just received from DTN the company has acquired all the assets of QuickFarm effective May 14. It looks like this means that all Quickfarm customers now have access to a lot more information and services. With the acquisition, customers now have access to the full suite of DTN agribusiness tools and services including DTN AgHost™, …
Celebrity Signed Tractor Online Auction
Last year I covered the Michael Peterson/New Holland Celebrity Tractor Race at the CMA Music Festival and now the tractor that was signed by the racing celebrities is up for auction online. It will end just in time for us to do it again this year! Proceeds from the auction will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Habitat for …
Opening Session at Alltech Symposium
Alltech’s Director of Research, Karl Dawson just got things started at the opening session here at the Symposium. He introduced the mayor of Lexington, Jim Newberry who gave us a very thorough overview of the city and it’s business structure. Unfortunately I have to go. Right now Dr. Pearse Lyons is on stage giving the opening address. He’s talking about …
Alltech Fun Run
The Fun Run is done. A lot of people showed up at Transylvania University this morning for the Alltech Fun Run. We did about almost 2 miles around the campus. Here’s Alltech founder Dr. Pearse Lyons with the women’s competition winner. I’ve got a few more pictures in the photo album. These are from my phone. Today the program really …
Everett McCorvey Sings My Old Kentucky Home
Alltech founder Dr. Pearse Lyons calls him the greatest voice in Kentucky. He’s Everett McCorvey, Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Voice, Director of Opera, University of Kentucky. He performed on stage tonight at our International Dinner. Playing Violin with him is Dr. Lyons’ daughter Aoife. Not pictured but playing piano was Tedrin Lindsay. The first selection he sang for us …
Blogging About Blogging
One of the IFAJ members took my picture this morning while I was doing my agriblogging and farm podcasting presentation. I’ll have to get his card so I can let you know who. Another member thinks it’s funny that I blog about me blogging. It was a good session with lots of questions about things like how I promote my …
Alltech Founder Dr. Pearse Lyons
The founder of Alltech is Dr. Pearse Lyons. He just concluded a presentation to the IFAJ board meeting. I had a chance to interview him just before we got started. I knew right away he didn’t have a Kentucky accent (he’s Irish). He says he’s almost been in the United States as long as he lived in Ireland. I started …