The National Agri-Marketing Association has named the recipient of its highest honor of the year. George Thornton, President & CEO of Agriliance, LLC is the Agribusiness Leader of the Year. “The award honors outstanding leaders in agribusiness, education, government service or other agribusiness related areas who exemplify excellence in agribusiness by their significant contributions to the industry.” The award will be presented at the opening session of this year’s annual conference, April 20 in Kansas city.
4 New Partners At Context Network
Are you in need of ideas for how to run your organization or business. Then maybe you need to put it in context, Context Network that is.
Corn Users to Focus on CITT Hearings to Overturn Duties on US Corn
It’s a trade war. One that really doesn’t matter to the Americans and puts one ag sector against the other in Canada. I can’t believe how we are so prone to shoot ourselves in the foot. Be that as it may. The Canadian Pork Council will press for the elimination of countervail and antidumping duties on imported unprocessed U.S. grain corn when the Canadian International Trade Tribunal begins pubic hearings next week.
Move That Movie To Your iPod
Okay so it’s a St. Patrick’s day Friday night and I’m posting. Workaholic. Not really. Just learning how to convert a movie to my iPod. Although I don’t have green beer at least it’s in a green bottle.
Integrate This Into Your Vocabulary
I subscribe to news releases from a variety of places using agriculture as a key word so I’m sure this thing has an agricultural application. This is one of those things you’re never going to hear a radio ad for. Just look at the words in this selection of the release from Analytical Spectral Devices:
Ag Day Essay Winner
A high-school junior from Wisconsin was named the national winner of the 2006 Ag Day Essay Contest
Podcast Expo Number Two
I didn’t get to attend this event last year but I hope this year is a different matter. The Podcast & Portable Media Expo just seems like a place a gadget friendly farm podcaster ought to be. Registration is open. Anyone want to tag along?
Gary Myers – Exec In Residence
I just got alerted to the fact that Gary Myers, Morgan & Myers, was selected Thursday to be a CAFNR Executive in Residence at the Universtity of Missouri in the fall. Gary is an agricultural journalism alum of the school. He’s the Featured Alum on the school’s website. Here’s an excerpt from his bio:
Ag Week Grassroots Support By D&PL
With National Ag Week coming up D&PL decided to create a grassroots initiative to show off the valuable contribution agriculture makes to our society. This is an idea that I’d like to see more of. I hope we get a follow-up report on the project. The company’s employees are creating word of mouth advertising in support of a good cause. Who would be better evangelists than the people who work for a company that make their living from the success of our farmers?
Micro Flo-ing To Arysta LifeScience
Although the financial details are a secret it’s still a big deal. Micro Flo will be part of Arysta LifeScience now.