While looking into this story I discovered that the American Farmland Trust has a podcast. You can use this link to subscribe in iTunes. But besides that they’ve just promoted a couple of really wonderful people. William Kuckuck, Executive Vice President, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has announced the promotion of Jane Kirchner as Director of Marketing and Jennifer Morrill as …
New Cattle-Fax Officers & Directors
Cattle-Fax has some new officers and directors. They were elected during the organization’s board meeting at the recent Cattle Industry Convention. The new President is Alabama cattleman Ned Ellis, owner of Circle E Farms. Ellis is the Southeast Regional director on the Cattle-Fax Board. He succeeds John Maddux of Imperial, Neb., as president. Jamie Willrett, the Midwest Regional director on …
United Soybean Board Reviews Communications Contract
It’s always good to review how things are going and after 11 years it’s probably about time. However, I’m sure this can be an interesting time if you’re Osborn & Barr Communications. Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B) today announced it will fully participate in a United Soybean Board (USB) periodic review of its communications contract. The USB decision to commence …
RSS Feeds From NCGA
The National Corn Growers Association just announced that they are now using RSS to distribute information. Just use this link to subscribe like I did with my NewsGator Outlook plugin. Why don’t we see more of this? It’s good for getting information to members and the media. Sure, not all farmers know how to use RSS. Not all of them …
Corn Yield Contest Winners Being Announced
As we get closer to Commodity Classic the winners of the National Corn Yield Contest are surfacing in a variety of news releases as companies proudly announce who’s using their varieties. The Walter brothers here won in the AA Non-Irrigated Class for Illinois. You can find a list of state winners here and national winners here. Ralph and Don Walter …
New Potato Board Members
Learn all you want to know about U. S. Potatoes. Did I spell that right? Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today (Feb 16) appointed 27 producer members and two importer members to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board. All terms begin March 1, 2007, and end Feb. 28, 2010. Producer members reappointed to the board are: Ronald Ray Lehr, Jr., …
Merle Haggard Press Conference
One of the newest stars to advocate biodiesel is Merle Haggard. The legendary country star performed for attendees at this year’s National Biodiesel Conference after meeting with the press and the board of the National Biodiesel Board. Before coming to the auditorium where he performed though his bus got a fill up with biodiesel. During the press conference Merle said …
A Beefy Media Room
One of the best media rooms you’ll find at a major sized conference is managed by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Joe Schuele and Grace Webb are always there during the event to help with any question and never lose their patience. Before the Cattle Industry Conference ended last week I interviewed Joe Schuele about how they run the media …
Honoring Monte Reese
At the joint business meetings this morning, retiring Beef Board COO, Monte Reese was presented with a plaque in appreciation for his service to the organization. Presenting the award are Ken Stielow, new chairman of the Beef Board and Vice chairman, David Bateman and immediate past chairman, Jay O’Brien. I’m sure Monte will be receiving some more awards. In fact, …
Showing the Blog to the Secretary
Before he got started with the speech and press conference, Secretary Johanns toured through the media room. I figured that since he’s the head of USDA and it oversees the Beef Checkoff that he should know about the Beef Board Meeting.com blog. So when he got over to my work area we took a little tour of the website and …