At the NAFB convention recently I spent some time in the John Deere booth. Pictured here are Seth Crawford (l), Leigh Ann Cleaver (BCS Communications) and Barry Nelson (r).
I interviewed Seth about John Deere’s new “Reach For The Stars” program they announced in conjunction with the American Soybean Association. This program is designed to provide U.S. soybean growers with opportunities to learn more about precision ag systems. It also has a contest portion in which selected growers will be able to choose from among “15 premium level precision ag systems, each with a suggested retail price of more than $20,000, for the entire 2007 U.S. growing season. After the program ends, qualified participants will be offered an opportunity to purchase the entire system, or just the components they want to own, at a greatly reduced price.”
This sounds like an interesting event. The 
I’ve got a very interesting interview this week with Kyle Russell, Director, Livestock Marketing, Case IH.
Well I was heading out. Then I got an email 
I just got another report from Paul McKellips, US Department of State, Public Affairs GO Team. He’s on assignment in Erbil, Iraq. This report is about the work being done to repair tractors in Iraq.
I finally had a chance to walk around a little today. One of the first exhibits I wandered through was 
Here’s a Deere Gear Store 
I thought this would make Barry Nelson happy at 
There’s some new tractors out in the