It’s time once again to look ahead to Ag Day 2007 and make your plans. To help you do so there’s a new planning guide available.

Here’s one of my next stops on the agricultural marketing highway. The Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association will be holding their convention in Minneapolis next week. I’ll be part of a panel titled, “Marketing Communications Strategies & Tactics.” It’s going to be on Tuesday afternoon and features some real experts like, Dale Bentlage of Global Reach Internet Productions, Joe Baitinger of Farm Market ID and Connor Flynn of Lessing Flynn.

The 2006 World Championship Appaloosa Show is underway now in Ft. Worth, TX. This is significant because by next year’s show there will be content from the event as it’s happening on a new website we’re developing for The Appaloosa Horse Club. And of course, it’s a blog. It’s not ready yet or I’d direct you to it.

There’s a new national officer leadership team at the FFA. They were elected during the final sesson of the convention.

The 79th FFA Convention got kicked off today. I was hoping to be there but it just didn’t work out. The FFA website has a lot of content you can check out though to keep up with all the action.

FFA is big business from the looks of this announcement about their new Merchandise Center. I guess you learn something new everyday. I had no idea their merchandise business was so big.

Thanks go to Grace Oh for this picture of Janis McFarland receiving her award at the recent CropLife America annual meeting in Orlando, FL.