A day in the life of country music star Michael Peterson. Sounds like a book or a movie. Actually, it’s the theme of my posts here in Green Bay, WI at the Three Hills Rodeo. This morning we started out at 6am with live spots on local tv and radio stations. Here’s Michael being interviewed by the local NBC affiliate. …
Michael Peterson is Ready for Some Rodeo
Hello from Green Bay, WI, the site of the Three Hills Rodeo which will kick off this evening in the Resch Arena. I’m here documenting a day with Michael Peterson which started out very early this morning. I interviewed him early to get a perspective on what all’s going on. He’s here to watch some young people get sworn in …
Rodeo Blogging in Green Bay
As I was driving to a client presentation today I received a phone call from another client and tomorrow I’m headed to Green Bay, WI for the Three Hills Rodeo. This is going to be fun. For one thing, I haven’t been to a rodeo for a while. For another, I’ll be shooting some more video to play around with …
Troy Price New VP of Sales For New Holland
Troy Price has been named to a newly created position of Vice President of Sales to oversee the New Holland North American sales organization. In that position, he is responsible for promoting sales growth and increased profitability of the North America market, directly managing the sales team. He will report to Lorenzo Sistino, President of New Holland worldwide, and will …
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 …
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. …
The Latest On NAFB & The BARN/ABN
Another Commodity Classic has come and gone and I’m in recovery mode. But I do have a ZimmCast for you which is in part from the trade show floor. In the first part of the program I interviewed the three amigos you see in the picture. They are (l-r) Jeremy Povenmire, National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Me, Bill O’Neill, NAFB …
Don’t Forget the Podcast & Photo Album
I’m about done for the day here at Commodity Classic. The trade show’s over. This evening is the final entertainment function with country music star Collin Raye. I think Cindy and I are going to take some time off and miss that. I’ve got some more things that will be posted like the winner of the New Holland Blue iPod …
The BASF Wrapup
I know I’ve covered a lot of BASF activities here at Commodity Classic but they are very involved and hey, they’re one of my sponsors. To get a wrap-up I spoke with Steve Henning, Marketing Manager Corn Belt after he got done with a tv interview. Steve exudes enthusiasm and I think you’ll hear that in his voice. He says …
Kleckner on Biofuels
Cindy was trade show talking today with Dean Kleckner, Truth About Trade & Technology. They had an extended discussion on one of the main topics everyone’s been talking about and that’s biofuels. Dean always has an opinion and he shares that with Cindy. I think you’ll enjoy it. Listen Cindy’s interview with Dean here: cccast-26-kleckner.mp3 This interview is part of …