Swine producers are invited to an Alltech iCast on nutrition. It’s “an online video discussion about trial data that was recently conducted by Cape Fear Consulting.” We’re seeing more and more use of video online. You are invited to the swine nutrition iCast featuring Dr. Tommy Shipp and Dr. Walter Tibbetts from Cape Fear Consulting. Beginning May 28, 2008 at …
Alltech Symposium Wrapup
The 2008 Alltech International Animal Health & Nutrition Symposium is over and Alltech President, Dr. Pearse Lyons, provided the final remarks. He summed up the key concepts that were focused on at the Symposium like the greenest generation, re-defining the industry, new technologies, new business practices, having fun and being socially responsible, supporting young people and re-defining education. Then he …
Conversations With Alltech Symposium Speakers
Here at the Alltech Symposium I did a series of video interviews with educational session speakers in addition to participants. They have all been posted to Alltech’s YouTube account. Here’s an example of one of them with Charlie Elrod, Ithaca, NY.
Discussion Group Dinners End The Day
This evening the Alltech Symposium ended with a series of simultaneous discussion group dinners. I went to the one on biofuels which was moderated by Dr. Mark Lyons. Here’s my table. Prior to the general discussion we ate and talked at our individual tables. At mine we had folks from the Dominican Republic, Philippines, Korea and the United States. It …
Feeding a Growing Population
The third person on the debate team for the Alltech Greenest Generation debate was Osler Desouzart, President of OD Consulting, Brazil. He is no soft spoken, hold back his feelings kind of guy and I like that. He got asked about his thoughts on how to feed the growing population of the world. My recorder ran out of batteries when …
David Byrne Speaks to Food Safety
After Mike Johanns got the first question in the Alltech Greenest Generation debate it was David Byrne’s turn. He is the former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. He was asked if we can capture consumer confidence on food safety and how can industry and regulators work together to achieve it. Of course he has a very significant amount …
Mike Johanns on Stage Again
Our former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is now running for the office of U.S. Senate and he’s still great talking about agriculture on stage. Here he is at the Alltech Symposium. The debate was for the most part very cordial. I think Johanns did a very good job of addressing the questions and talking to the issues in a very …
The Greenest Generation Debate
Right now the Alltech Symposium afternoon general session is featuring a debate with these guys pictured with Dr. Pearse Lyons (top). They are Mike Johanns, former U.S. Sec. of Ag, David Byrne, former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection and Osler Desouzart, OD Consulting. Afterward we’ll be visiting with them in a press conference and I’ll have more for …
Alltech Young Animal Scientist Award
The winner of the Alltech Young Animal Scientist Award is Craig Louder, Utah State University. He’s pictured between Dr. Mark Lyons and Inge Russell. In addition to his first place overall award there were 4 regional winners, of which Craig is one. The others include: Asia-Pacific Bayu Mangkurat, Indonesia, Diponegoro University Europe-Africa Zhelyazko Sabev, Bulgaria, Trakia University Latin America Mateus …
Focusing on Farm New Media
I just finished doing Blogging 101 for the international ag media attending the Alltech Symposium. Thanks to Liz Broomall, Alltech intern, for taking the photo. Ignore those empty chairs. The crowd was all around there and behind Liz. I kind of rambled around on the subjects of blogging, podcasting, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. I was also very surprised to be …