It doesn’t take much to entertain the media sometimes. In this case it was a toad. The Farm Progress Show Media Tent Toad. This little fellow caught everyone’s attention as he took up residence right in front of the press conference stage. I wonder if he was paying attention during this afternoon’s Growth Energy discussion. We’ll have a full story …
Visiting With Senator Grassley At Farm Progress Show
Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley spent some time at the Farm Progress Show. I caught up to him and found out that he had been checking out all the new technology on display at the show. When it comes to Washington, DC policy and specifically energy policy he provided an update of what we might expect in coming weeks. In September …
Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces IMPACT at Farm Progress Show
Pioneer Hi-Bred announced IMPACT today. That’s Intensively Managed Product Advancement, Characterization and Training trials. The announcement was made at a press event in their exhibit at the Farm Progress Show. I spoke with Brent Wilson about the new initiative. You can listen to him describe what this means for Pioneer’s customers in my interview below. Pioneer Hi-Bred announced plans to …
Vote For Bunge M.O.E. in Great Food Truck Race
For breakfast this morning I went to the Bunge M.O.E. at the Pioneer Hi-Bred exhibit at the Farm Progress Show. My biscuit and ingredients were cooked with Plenish, the new high oleic soybean oil being developed by Pioneer. Bunge Chef Adam was doing the cooking and you can meet him in the video clip. The Bunge M.O.E. is competing in …
Former Governor Branstand Running For Governor
It’s not just farmers who visit the Farm Progress Show. Politicians have a great opportunity to interact with constituents and prospective voters. One of them is former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad who is hoping to become Governor again! Terry is pictured second from the left with his new Pioneer Hi-Bred cap. I spoke with him after our photo opp. He …
Beating Wind and Rain at Farm Progress Show
It was a little wet out here at the Farm Progress Show this morning but the sun is shining now and it’s drying out. Before the show got started I found a couple of examples of what the wind and rain did here. Kudos to the show site builders. I think we have had a great example of how the …
Delayed Start To Day Two at Farm Progress Show
A severe storm passed through central Iowa overnight and due to the water and some wind damage the show will start two hours late today. I’ve been told there were over four inches of rain and that 2 1/2 inches came down in less than two hours at one point. But the show site is draining and I’m sure we’ll …
Welcome To Iowa and Barilla Pasta
Jim Middendorf is an ambassador for the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau. He was just one of the people welcoming the exhibitors in the Farm Progress Show to Iowa. Tonight we had the annual exhibitors dinner and reception. Jim also had a present for us. Barilla pasta! He says a woman came by earlier and after trying some locally produced …
Live Strong With New Holland
USB memory sticks just keep coming out in cool new “styles.” Gene Hemphill, New Holland, is providing the media with media kits saved on them that are built into a bracelet. Kind of looks like the LiveStrong ones and as you can see it’s helping me display mine! Thanks to Meghan Grebner, JMP Media Group, for the photo. Farm Progress …
Corn Talking At Farm Progress Show
The leadership of the National Corn Growers Association is all over the Farm Progress Show helping promote Iowa corn and NCGA. Here’s Mark Lambert, known as @CornGuy on Twitter, driving them around now that the rain has stopped. I spoke with Bart Schott, NCGA 1st VP, sitting in the back behind Mark. Bart says they’ve been conducting media interviews and …