I am going to have lots of audio coming from the BASF Seed Treatment Symposium and already have a bunch of photos which I loaded into a separate Flicker Photo Album for your viewing pleasure. BASF 2008 Commodity Classic Symposium Photo Album The room is literally packed here with media with two more on the phone. The presenters are giving …
BASF Seed Treatment Seminar Starts
The BASF “Science Behind Seed Treatments” media seminar is underway at Commodity Classic with about 40 ag journalists participating. The presenters are Steve Hawkins from The Context Network, Andy Lee of BASF, Dr. Gary Munkvold of Iowa State University, Dr. Dirk Voeste of BASF Seed Treatment Technology Center in Germany, and Craig Lindholm of BASF. The reason for the seminar …
A Nashville Classic
2008 Commodity Classic is getting underway here in Nashville at the Opryland. Little bit of snow fell this morning, but its clearing up now and folks are getting in, getting registered and getting orientated to this huge venue. The media room is a bit far off from the main activities of the convention center but – as always – it …
Off to Classic
While Chuck is busy basking in the glorious Florida weather, I am preparing to head on out to the 2008 Commodity Classic in Nashville at the Opryland. First on the agenda tomorrow afternoon is the BASF International Seed Treatment Symposium to provide us media types with all the latest info on BASF products and technology. The Classic really gets rolling …
National Sorghum Producers Join Commodity Classic
It’s now official that the National Sorghum Producers will be joining with corn, soybeans and wheat at Commodity Classic in 2009. As if there wasn’t enough activity to keep the ag media busy there! Commodity Classic, the tradeshow and convention of the U.S. corn, soybean and wheat producers, announces the National Sorghum Producers will be part of the premier annual …
FarmPolicyFacts.org and 2008 Commodity Classic Website
It’s Friday afternoon in Nashville and time to relax with a very tasty treat. After a full day of CMA Music Festival related activities and a nice run I thought I’d check out the end of the week emails. There are a number of them that come in from Washington, DC. Like the NAWG Newsletter. In it I learned of …
John Deere Keeping You Safe
At the Commodity Classic John Deere gave away a very nice safe. The winner is Doug Rund, Twin Valley, MN. He’s a member of the Minnesota Wheat Council. Since this wouldn’t fit in the overhead on the plane he’s going to have it delivered by his local dealer. I think he’ll have to settle for putting your guns and other …
Grandma’s Got a Blue iPod
The winner of the New Holland Blue iPod contest which was held at their Commodity Classic booth is Edith Gaffner of Greenville, IL. Here at ZimmComm we like to provide order fulfillment with a smile so I was in St. Louis already and decided to just drive out to the Gaffner farm to personally meet Edith. I had a very …
Largest Combine in North America
This is one big combine and it was on display at the Commodity Classic last week. I really didn’t get much done in the way of video but Cindy got motivated and thought that something this big spinning on a pedestal was worth a minute of YouTube’s time. So here’s what you’ve got. A minute of: The largest combine in …
New Holland Blue iPod Winner
New Holland held a drawing for a blue iPod Nano this year at their booth at Commodity Classic. That’s so one more person in agriculture can subscribe to and listen to farm podcasts right? Well the drawing was held and the winner is: Ms. Edith Gaffner from Greenville, IL We’ll be contacting Ms. Gaffner to let her know she won. …