“Caddy Shack” was the feature film at the Ag Media Summit party by the pool Monday night. For those of you who have seen the movie, you will likely recall the classic “doodie” in the pool scene. Organizer Diane Johnson, however, had never seen the flick – so when someone asked her yesterday if there would be Baby Ruth candy …
Advanced Blogging, ZimmComm Style
My Advanced Blogging presentation is about to begin in the Royal Palm West room. The chairs are starting to fill up. (sort of) This post is just being done in the moments before we get started to provide a live demo for those wonderful souls who are here early to get a front row seat. I’ll be doing some more …
Rolling Stone is Down to Earth
Gene Hemphill of New Holland became fast friends with Chuck Leavell, tree farmer and keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, as soon as Chuck Zimmerman introduced them some time last year. Since then, Leavell has been on the rock and roll side for New Holland, with Michael Peterson being the country side. By the way – Gene is the one on …
New ACT President
The Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow held it’s annual meeting this morning. You can see a few photos from the meeting in our photo album. Afterward, the now past national President, Matt Splitter and new President, Katy Teixeira, visited Agwired in the BASF Media Room. Katy says that they’re going to work on their website this year. I’m hoping that if …
Onset 5 IN Introduced at AMS
Just before the Ag Media Summit started, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health invited a group of journalists to attend a session on their new Onset 5 IN product. At the event I spoke with Dr. Scott Nordstrom, Intervet, about the first intranasally administered, five-way modified-live virus (MLV) vaccine for healthy cattle 3 to 8 days and older. He says that this product …
New AAEA Leaders
At today’s annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, new officers and board members were elected. The new President is Holly Martin, High Plains Journal, pictured in the center of the group here. Holly says that the big push this year for AAEA will be the combined AMS and IFAJ Congress next year in Ft. Worth. She says they’ll …
Trimble Continues to Innovate
Trimble just announced last week that revenue for its second quarter of 2008 was up approximately 15 percent compared to last year. For the Field Solutions segment of the company, the increase was 68 percent, driven primarily by strong demand for agricultural products. I had a chance to sit down with Rob Lindores, Director of Marketing for Trimble Agricultural, about …
Amy (Betsy Freese) Winehouse Stops At AMS
We’ve been visited by several celebrities here at AMS. This morning I met Amy Winehouse, (Betsy Freese, Living The Country Life) who sat in on the AAEA annual meeting. I think that Betsy made some kind of challenge about AAEA membership and lost. You can find some additional photos of Amy/Betsy in the photo album. Ag Media Summit Photo Album …
Major New Ag Trade Show Announced
The big announcement at the Ag Media Summit today was a new major agricultural trade show to take place in 2010. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) announced AG CONNECT Expo, “a new international agriculture event that will showcase the latest industry innovations, products and technology and offer access to leading industry experts worldwide.” The inaugural Expo is slated for …
Barbra Makes a Return Appearance
Barbra Streisand, also known as Jodie Wehrspann, Farm Industry News, made a guest appearance at our opening reception party. Doesn’t she look gorgeous in her red and pearls? Since it is our 10th industry of the Ag Media Summit she had a special performance of “The Way We Were.” The reality is that none of us are just exactly the …