If you’re in agriculture, then you know Al Pell, the host of AgDay TV. Al and his crew were on hand during the AG CONNECT Expo and while there, taped a show. In the background – a standing room only crowd. Chip Flory, with Pro Farmer was the featured guest. The topic of discussion was to be crop reports but …

Here’s the happy smiley greeting crew for AG CONNECT Expo Networking Night at Universal Studios. Attendees had the opportunity to go to the Islands of Adventure, Marvel Super Hero Island, which we had all to ourselves. Who’s your favorite Marvel super hero? Mine has always been The Mighty Thor although Spiderman comes in a close second. I took photos of …

A year ago would you have thought you’d see this proudly displayed in an agribusiness booth? I didn’t think so. But AGCO is connecting socially with their customers as we found out at Tuesday evening’s Tweetup. So how about your company? Are you getting your social network in order? If you follow the AG CONNECT Expo Twitter hashtag which is …

My Alma Mater was out and about at AG CONNECT Expo today. Here are three ag comm students from The University of Florida. They were watching this afternoon’s panel discussion in the Innovations Theater on the future of ag communications. I’ll have more on that later. Joanna and I have spent all day collecting interviews which we’ll be posting right …

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking information from Monsanto about the company’s soybean traits business. According to a press release from Monsanto, the Justice Department “has issued a civil investigative demand (CID) requesting information on its soybean traits business, primarily seeking a confirmation that, as Monsanto has previously indicated, farmers and seed companies will continue to have access to …

The crowd of attendees here at AG CONNECT Expo is pretty diverse as you might expect at a major agricultural trade show. We’ve got lots of international visitors and exhibitors. And it’s always great to see blue coats. These Florida FFA’ers are getting an on the floor lesson today. AG CONNECT Expo Photo Album

We had a great tweetup here at AG CONNECT Expo tonight. Thanks to AGCO for sponsoring it. You can find AGCO socially: Facebook Twitter Ustream.tv YouTube Tweetups are a great place to meet in person with other Twitter folks and network. That’s what we did. AG CONNECT Expo Photo Album

Chad Yagow, John Deere, (r) already has his picture on AgWired but he gets another one. At the AETC luncheon today he was presented with the AETC MVP award. Yes, that’s a baseball bat. I guess that’s so he can keep conference attendees in line. More photos have been uploaded to the photo album so please keep checking it as …

It’s almost time for the official start of the first ever AG CONNECT Expo. It’s historic and it’s going to be fun. The big banners are now hanging outside the Orange County Convention Center welcoming attendees who will be coming from all over the world. The ceremonies will kick off tomorrow afternoon and I’ll be on the scene live bringing …

While Cindy is covering the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Seattle I’m in Orlando for AG CONNECT Expo. The show doesn’t officially start until Tuesday afternoon but there are a number of co-located events going on starting with tomorrow’s Agrievolution program. I’ll be there as well as other locations but got myself all comfortable here in the news media …