The Fort Worth-based Hondo Group is expanding its capabilities in marketing communications. Hondo now has a new account executive, a new junior designer and a new production and traffic manager. The company says it’s eager to put the fresh perspectives from these three new hires to use. “We are very excited to bring in these three talented new employees,” said …
Getting a Charleston|Orwig Dairy Perspective
In case you’d like a little more dairy news today I thought you might enjoy this. A quiet place to get away from the crowd at World Dairy Expo is the Charleston|Orwig suite in the Coliseum where they hold meetings and entertain clients. Since Charleston|Orwig is one of our sponsors for coverage of World Dairy Expo this year, I did …
Obligatory Agri Talk Picture
We are covering World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin this week, along with over 175 other media representatives from all over the world. Many of them are farm broadcasters – and here is our obligatory Agri Talk picture, kind of a tradition for us to post a photo of them from every event we both attend. Some other farm broadcasters …
Get To Know Laura Mayfield
I had an opportunity this morning to talk with the new President of McCormick Company, Laura Mayfield. Our conversation will help you get to know her. Laura says she’s worked with some of the staff at McCormick on projects over a period of several years so she’s not a complete stranger. She says that clients can expect the same great …
Laura Mayfield New President of McCormick Company
A new era and a new president for McCormick Company. The company announces Laura Mayfield as the new president. She’ll be leading and managing offices in Kansas City, Amarillo, Des Moines and Fairport, N.Y. “We’re excited about the new leadership Laura brings to the company,” says Mark Perrin. “Laura is very familiar with McCormick. She has worked with many of …
Osborn & Barr Forms New Executive Management Team
Osborn & Barr has a new Executive Management Team in place. These 5 people will report to Joe Osborn and Steve Barr. The new Executive Management Team will take over functional management of the agency on a day-to-day basis. In addition, the team will assist Osborn and Barr as they focus efforts on developing more strategic and long-term growth opportunities …
Promotions at Osborn & Barr
Four staff members at Osborn & Barr have earned enough stripes for a promotion. The company says rewarding its valuable employees ultimately rewards its customers with familiar and expert representatives. Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B), one of North America’s leading full service communications agencies, has promoted key staff members to further strengthen its ability to supply clients with innovative and …
Boehringer Ingelheim Funds PRRS Research
As the swine industry continues raising awareness for the need of porcine reproductive and respitory syndrome, or PRRS, Boehringer Ingelheim continues its annual PRRS research award program. The year marks the sixth year of Boehringer Ingelheim’s funding of PRRS research. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) is again seeking research study proposals on the topic of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome …
Doing The YMCA
Thanks to Brandon Souza, Cal Poly – Brock Center, San Luis Obispo, CA for providing me with another video clip from our opening session. Brandon made sure we never forget the YMCA portion of the evening. 2007 Ag Media Summit Photo Album AgWired coverage of the Ag Media Summit is being sponsored by:
AgraGate Picks Meyocks Group
The brave folks at The Meyocks Group have been selected as the agency of record for AgragGate Climate Credits Corporation, my sponsor here at the Ag Media Summit. You can count on the fact that we’re going to be learning more about carbon credit offsets! AgraGate is a subsidiary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, which has been involved in …