Alltech founder Dr. Pearse Lyons calls him the greatest voice in Kentucky. He’s Everett McCorvey, Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Voice, Director of Opera, University of Kentucky. He performed on stage tonight at our International Dinner. Playing Violin with him is Dr. Lyons’ daughter Aoife. Not pictured but playing piano was Tedrin Lindsay. The first selection he sang for us …
Blogging About Blogging
One of the IFAJ members took my picture this morning while I was doing my agriblogging and farm podcasting presentation. I’ll have to get his card so I can let you know who. Another member thinks it’s funny that I blog about me blogging. It was a good session with lots of questions about things like how I promote my …
Alltech Founder Dr. Pearse Lyons
The founder of Alltech is Dr. Pearse Lyons. He just concluded a presentation to the IFAJ board meeting. I had a chance to interview him just before we got started. I knew right away he didn’t have a Kentucky accent (he’s Irish). He says he’s almost been in the United States as long as he lived in Ireland. I started …
Kentucky Ale On Tap
Probably the biggest disappointment of the Alltech tour was that their in-office Irish Pub was closed. You have got to love a company that has their own pub on the premises. I’m sure I know where happy hour is. These are the taps in the pub because they only serve Kentucky Ale from the Lexington Brewing Company. This is an …
Alltech Sponsoring World Equestrian Games in 2010
Talk about forward planning, Alltech is going to be the sponsor of the World Equestrian Games which will be held in 2010 in Lexington, KY. It’s a multi-million dollar investment and you might wonder why they would choose this venue. Here’s how they put it to the IFAJ group in a short presentation about the future games. The Olympics bring …
Touring Alltech Headquarters
Alltech has a beautiful headquarters building here in Lexington, KY. We got to tour the facilities this afternoon and you can find the pictures I was allowed to take in the online photo album. Right before we got started we were welcomed to the building and given a little background on Alltech. I recorded our presenter and you can listen …
Alltech Symposium at Lexington Convention Center
It’s afternoon now and our IFAJ board meeting group took a break to tour the Alltech headquarters building. First we stopped at the convention center to get registered and then board a bus. I understand there will be almost 1,700 people here from around the world attending the Alltech Symposium. It’s truly an international experience. In fact this evening’s dinner …
Getting Started In Lexington
Hello from downtown Lexington, KY and the Alltech International Feed Industry Symposium and IFAJ board meeting. This is the fountain right outside our hotel. We just got back from dinner at the Woodlands Grill. The award winning chef uses Kentucky Ale in his recipes so of course we had to go there. In case you didn’t know, Alltech owns the …
Alltech International Feed Indusry Symposium
It’s off to Lexington, KY for the 23rd Alltech International Feed Industry Symposium. I’ll be arriving late Saturday and activities get kicked off on Sunday. Bright and early on Sunday I’ll be doing a short presentation on blogging and podcasting for the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists board meeting which is taking place there. This group of editors and broadcasters …
Your Farm And Some Peace On The ZimmCast
The ZimmCast is done and this week you can listen to interviews with Joel Jaeger, founder of Your Farm and Ken McCauley, NCGA president. Joel just launched Your Farm, the coolest online community for farmers and with it he’s made available the USDA/FAS 1614 Farm Subsidy Database which you can search. ZimmComm freelance reporter Mike Rogers actually did the interviews …