The cattle industry honored Terry Stokes today for his service to NCBA. It was a very emotional presentation which included his being joined on stage at the opening session by the staff, including from many state affiliates. A highlight for Terry I’m sure was being presented with an American flag that flew in his honor at an Army post in …
Producers Support Checkoff and Concerned About Economy
The activity is picking up here at the Cattle Industry Convention. More media are showing up in the news room and I’ve been doing a little Beef Board Blogging. I think that from a Beef Board perspective the financial outlook is really the main conversation in the hallway and meetings I’ve sat in on so far. This morning I interviewed …
CBB Budget Decreases
The Cattle Industry Convention is in full swing with NCBA Cattlemen’s College going on this morning in addition to other meetings. One of them that took place yesterday was the Beef Board Operating Committee: This committee has directed staff of the Beef Board to implement an approximate 5% cut in the budget due to projected lower income this year. That’s …
Top CBB Issues
The Beef Board Operating Committee meeting is over and before he went to dinner I caught up with Chairman Dave Bateman. A large part of the meeting was taken up by discussion about lower budget projections. Dave says that’s one major issue they’re facing. Another one is the improvements process they’ve been going through for the last year. You can …
Feeding RSS In St. Louis
This afternoon I got to visit with Bob Callanan and Cassandra Schlef, American Soybean Association. We talked about RSS feeds which I believe you’ll soon see ASA making greater use of to distribute information. In our session we started out looking at how RSS works from the user perspective and then moved to the publishing side. I really believe this …
Livestock Week
We’ve got a week full of conventions coming up on AgWired. I’ll be the Beef Board Blogger once again at the Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix while Cindy is attending the International Poultry Expo. It’s a livestock kind of week. Cindy gets on location first so you can expect to see her posts before mine. She’ll be in Atlanta and …
Blogging The Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair
I never have been able to work out a deal to blog the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair but I guess the idea got through to someone. Thanks to Rich Schell for the heads up. Chicago Farmers Offering Seminar on Using Social Media Marketing to Grow Your Business at Farmland Investment Fair! Jeff Korhan, green industry speaker, video blogger, Internet …
Southern Blogging From Midwest Corn Growers
Cindy noticed that our friend, David Buchholz, David and Associates, is doing a little South American blogging at Midwest Corn Growers, 2009 Study Tour to South America. In this space we allow corn growers, media and others who are interested to learn what we’ve learned and experience a bit of what we experienced on a two-week study tour to Brazil …
Inaugural Food Could Have Been A Turkey
Actually recipes made with turkey like this Turkey Tostada Ensalada are fit for the inauguration even if they won’t be served there. But that didn’t stop two chefs who offered some dishes they would have served. Looks great to me. I would happily let them serve it any time. Chefs Rocco Whalen and Mary Sue Milliken might not have been …
ASFMRA Members Use New Communications Technologies
The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers recently surveyed its members and asked them some communications technology questions. I provided some ideas for the questions and they’ve shared the results with me. So here’s some items you might find interesting (I rounded out the #’s). To start with, of the respondents, almost 70% are over 50 years old …