Here’s our group of agricultural journalists at rapt attention today at the Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Medicine Research and Development facilities. Although we sat in a meeting room most of the day we did get a break to go into a wet lab. Tomorrow its a tour around the farm as described below. The region’s facilities serve as the global …
Staying At Historic Brook Lodge
Wow. What a day. Talk about getting to know more about a company and their products. That’s what we got to do at Pfizer Animal Health VMRD Headquarters today. Before heading out there we did have our news conference here at Brook Lodge where we’re staying. The rest of the day involved a lot of presentations and a wet lab …
Writing From Pfizer Media Event
It’s Monday morning and I’m in Michigan getting ready for a couple of days with Pfizer Animal Health. We’re going to hear an announcement from the company here in just about an hour and I should be able to post that by midday if all goes well. This is a Pfizer researcher at work and later today we’ll be in …
Rich Schell Starts Schellacres.com
Joining the agriblogging ranks is Rich Schell, author, attorney and writer on food and agriculture from the Chicago area. Rich is “the immediate past president of The Chicago Farmers, taught Law for Illinois Agricultural Entrepreneurs at Joliet Junior College and has spoken at the Illinois Organic Production Conference, Illinois Specialty Growers, World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Organic Trade Association.” …
Photos From The Field
There’s a reason I like to have a camera with me at all times. Yesterday was one of those. The Bambi Twins here were playing along the edge of a soybean field. I had seen them last week when Cindy and I were out in a soybean field doing some work. This week they were not as skittish. I stopped …
No Travel Necessary in Search of Rural Dream Home
You no longer have to log the miles in your search for that great, rural escape. Thousands of rural properties are now available online at myfcsfinancial.com. FCS Financial recently partnered with LandsofAmerica.com, LLC, an online real estate marketing service provider, to display more than 30,000 rural properties on its web site. Properties for sale on www.myfcsfinancial.com include farms, investment properties, …
Old Hand Steps Up For Leader Postion At Cattle-Fax
Former Cattle-Fax director Mike Miller returns to the beef and cattle market information provider as a new chief. Miller is the new chief operating officer. As COO, Miller will lead efforts to expand the quantity and quality of data collected from Cattle-Fax members, as well as remodeling the entire Cattle-Fax data collection, benchmarking and reporting systems. Miller will also direct …
Turkish Prime Minister Recieves FAO’s Highest Honor
The Agricola Medal is the highest award the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unites States offers. FAO bestowed its latest Agricola Medal on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The organization says the award is meant to recognize Erdogan’s contribution to agriculture and social development in Turkey. “Please accept this Agricola Medal as a token of FAO’s and my …
67 Days On The Road
It looks like I’ve spent 67 days on the road so far this year doing event blogging. This doesn’t count Cindy’s days. Over two months out of just over 6 months. I’m not counting some out of town meetings and presentations either. How does that compare to your travel schedule? I’m curious. Anyone got more days? Feel free to comment. …
My Kind of Field Work
I think some of the best looking corn I’ve seen growing during my travels lately is in north central Missouri. I thought it looked good enough to stop for a picture. It’s what a self timer is made for. I was out taking field photos today for a client project. That’s my kind of field work since I don’t farm …