This afternoon the winner of the New Holland Zero Turn Radius Mower was drawn near the end of the opening trade show session. Pictured are Mike Adams, AgriTalk, who emceed the drawing, Gene Hemphill, New Holland and Bill Zurn (winner) and his wife Karolyn. Bill says he’s got a nice sized yard that the mower will be put to use …
Let’s Get Corn Fed With Shannon Brown
This Saturday night at the big Commodity Classic evening of entertainment at the Grand Ole Opry one of the performers will be Shannon Brown. I saw Shannon earlier this week at the National Ethanol Conference in Orlando. The song that wowed them there will also do so here I’m sure. It’s Corn Fed and in case you haven’t heard it …
New Holland Booth Tour
I got a tour guide to take me through the New Holland booth today here at Commodity Classic. The media get an hour in the show before all the farmers are allowed in so it’s kind of nice and quiet. I took advantage of that to get Mike Harvey, New Holland, to walk me through and talk about all the …
Tractor Pull Video
I tried to shoot a video clip of these tractors last night but my little point and shoot just couldn’t handle the noise I guess since it kept shutting off when they got close. But Leah Guffey, WFMB, save the day with her camera and provided me with a clip I can use. Hopefully this video clip will give you …
John Deere Booth Video
John Deere is sponsoring my coverage of the National Farm Machinery Show so today they get all the love. I’ve done at least 7 interviews so far with more to go. Some of them will be featured on the Precision Pays website as well. Before it got too difficult to walk through I shot a video clip of their booth …
Boot Shine
Baxter Black has nothing to do with shining boots. He was just signing books at the booth next door while I got by boots shined. I got that done today at the Zinpro booth. While there I learned a lot about the art of shining boots from Mary Sawyers who is a professional and has been doing this for a …
On The Trade Show Floor With Mehlhaff
This morning I got together with Dave Mehlhaff, American Hereford Association, and we took a tour of the NCBA Trade Show. Actually we didn’t make it very far but we found a few friends you may know as we made our way down the aisles. You might want to follow along as we explore some of the booths starting out …
Pequea Spreads a Little Manure Love
Pequea is helping prove that sometimes you’ve got to use video and in this case YouTube. Gotta love a company that’s willing to put the manure on the line in online communications and use some of the new media tools out there! I love the comments that are already being posted. Thanks to Lorena at Schubert Communications for sharing.
Taking the Oath to Serve the Beef Board
I attended my first swearing-in ceremony today of the new Beef Board members. Representing the Sec. of Agriculture was Craig Morris, USDA Deputy Administrator of AMS’ Livestock and Seed Program. Here you can see them taking the oath. I spoke with Craig prior to the swearing in and he says this is one of the highlights of his job. He …
Cattle Convention News Center
Joe Schuele and Grace Webb, NCBA, say hello from the news center at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center where the Cattle Industry Convention is getting kicked off. I really didn’t expect anyone to be there working early this morning but there they were with the media room all set up and hot food and coffee. It did start out at a …