The real business gets kicked off tomorrow here at the National Ethanol Conference. Today was kind of a social and fun day which ended in over 2,000 people enjoying a very nice reception. We were dry inside but it rained outside. I wandered out for some fresh air as the sky was getting dark and thought this picture kind of …

Can you say, “Midwest Winter Storm?” Just in case you’re looking for early morning posts from the National Farm Machinery Show, they’ll probably start more like late morning or early afternoon. It’s about a 6 hour drive from Jefferson City, MO to Louisville, KY but not today. After 6 hours I had made it to Mt. Vernon, IL where I’m …

Have you ever felt like there’s things you should know when in a public setting with a client or prospect that would help you be more successful? If so, Diane Johnson can be your teacher. I think she’s only got a few seats left for this professional development seminar – “The Art of Dining and Social Graces.” Contact her to …

I’m getting ready to finish packing for some industry conferences and will be doing some serious cross blogging (writing on more than one blog at once) over the next week. Starting things off will be the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville. I’ll have a lot to post here but will also be posting onto Beef Board Meeting which is the …

In the Flame Engineering booth they had some pretty cool giveaway lip balm. It’s got a funky name but it works really well. It’s Chicken Poop and you’ll have to read the website to find out why it’s called that since the label says “THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS NO POOP!!” You can not only find the product on their website but …

Thanks to Paul Conley for pointing me to Fresh Talk, “Comment and analysis from the National Editor of The Packer,” Tom Karst. What I wonder is how the traffic on Tom’s blog compares to The Packer website. Keep it up Tom. It looks like you’re getting into a groove with it.

Rob McAlister at Umbrella Heaven sent me an email with this just in case any of you are looking for an out-of-the-ordinary promotional item. They’re cow umbrellas.

It looks like we’re finally on our new server and I’ll have to re-post a number of posts since the end of last week. I’m on a short stopover in Frankfurt but will get things all caught up later in the day.

I spoke to a representative from AgSpeak on Friday and as we were talking I did a Google search of their name. They already knew this but the results show their website at the top and the 2 posts I did on them on AgWired show up as numbers 4 and 5 on the list! That’s higher than the news release they sent out through PRNewswire.

Russell Graves has given me permission to use some of his photos here on AgWired and I’d sure like to do it more often. In fact, I hope to meet Russell in person some time. I just know we’d get along great. He’s going to continue to document wildlife in a variety of ways and I’m going to continue to document agribusiness not only here on AgWired but with some other plans I have for the future.