Once you got into Field Museum for the gala reception last night you were greeted with mini crabcakes since Maryland was a sponsor. Mmm, mmm good.
Field Museum Reception
The Field Museum was the site of the second best reception I have ever attended. The BIO folks know how to recept.
IL Blues At IL Pavilion
You can’t be in Chicago and miss the blues and thanks to the IL pavilion we had some awesome blues.
Pony Express A Hit In MO at BIO
My home state is well represented here at BIO.
Russian TV Crew
Besides our own domestic ag journalists there has been a large (larger) contingent of foreign ag journalists.
More Farm Press At BIO
It’s always fun trying to keep posts at a conference in some sort of chronological order. But it just never works out that way. Here’s Orion Samuelson, doing an interview with one of the visiting ag journalists at the U. S. Grains Council/IL Corn Growers event. I was glad to see Orion here since there really hasn’t been many U. S. ag reporters.
Former CIA Director Talks Renewable Fuels
The plenary breakfast speaker today, R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, just finished speaking. He really focused on how biotechnology can play a role in our national security. Besides what most people probably think of first in terms of cures or innoculants for bio-terror induced disease he spent a while talking about energy and independence from terrorist controlled foreign oil.
BASF Plant Science Debuts At BIO
BASF Plant Science held an end-of-day press conference to talk about their intent to dedicate more than $320 million over the next three years to develop biotechnological optimized crop plants.
iPod Giveaways Continue
I’m just can’t get over how many companies are giving away iPods here.
International Ag Journalists Get “Earful” From IL Corn Grower
Last night Illinois farmer, banker, ethanol plant CEO and RFA board member Ray Defenbaugh was one of several people who spoke to a group of visiting agricultural journalists during a media reception sponsored by the US Grains Council and Illinois Corn Growers here at the BIO 2006 conference.