Well the party is over. For most people anyway.
Tonight we had the 10th Anniversary Celebration for AMS and joint awards ceremonies for AAEA and LPC. The photo album has been updated.
Tomorrow morning (this morning) we’ll finish things up here with a planning meeting for next year’s combined AMS and IFAJ Congress. I’ll be there somehow.
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From propane-powered irrigation systems to tankless water heaters and pickup trucks, today’s propane innovations are helping farmers save money and the environment.
Here at the Ag Media Summit, the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) was talking about the green benefits of propane and some of their upcoming events where they will be showcasing new propane innovations for agriculture. PERC will be sponsoring AgWired’s coverage of two big farm shows in the next few months – Farm Progress show and the Sunbelt Ag Expo.
You can listen to my interview with Brandon here: ams-08-propane.mp3
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There are over 80 students in attendance at the Ag Media Summit this week with high hopes of making a career in this fabulous field.
Being Gator alumni ourselves, we have a special affection for the contingent from the University of Florida. I think they said there are 15 or 16 of them here and I did get most of them lined up for this photo. Most of these young people are majoring in Ag Journalism. Chuck and I actually majored in Broadcasting many moons ago (1980), and it was purely fate that we ended up in this field. But, we are more than happy that our lives took us in this direction because these are some of the greatest people in the world and they love to mentor the future of our industry, as these kids will attest.
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“Caddy Shack” was the feature film at the Ag Media Summit party by the pool Monday night.
For those of you who have seen the movie, you will likely recall the classic “doodie” in the pool scene. Organizer Diane Johnson, however, had never seen the flick – so when someone asked her yesterday if there would be Baby Ruth candy bars in the pool, she had no idea what they were talking about. That someone did see to it that there were candy bars in the pool – and Diane had the courage to actually play Bill Murray and take a bite.
Fun for all – until the hotel personnel told us to keep the food out of the pool!
Post Update: Diane informs me that the hotel people actually didn’t tell us to keep the food out of the pool – they just wanted to know how long to keep the bars open. Not being “party poopers” after all!
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My Advanced Blogging presentation is about to begin in the Royal Palm West room. The chairs are starting to fill up. (sort of)
This post is just being done in the moments before we get started to provide a live demo for those wonderful souls who are here early to get a front row seat.
I’ll be doing some more demo posting probably so stay tuned here and on Twitter.
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Gene Hemphill of New Holland became fast friends with Chuck Leavell, tree farmer and keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, as soon as Chuck Zimmerman introduced them some time last year. Since then, Leavell has been on the rock and roll side for New Holland, with Michael Peterson being the country side.
By the way – Gene is the one on the right in the photo.
I finally had the great pleasure of meeting Chuck at the Ag Media Summit this week and got a chance to sit down and chat with him about farming, forestry and biofuels.
You can listen to my interview with Chuck here: ams-08-leavell.mp3
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The Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow held it’s annual meeting this morning. You can see a few photos from the meeting in our photo album.
Afterward, the now past national President, Matt Splitter and new President, Katy Teixeira, visited Agwired in the BASF Media Room. Katy says that they’re going to work on their website this year.
I’m hoping that if they come to my advanced blogging session this afternoon, they’ll get motivated to develop some new media tools for ACT online.
You can listen to my interview with Matt and Katy here: ams-08-act.mp3
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Just before the Ag Media Summit started, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health invited a group of journalists to attend a session on their new Onset 5 IN product. At the event I spoke with Dr. Scott Nordstrom, Intervet, about the first intranasally administered, five-way modified-live virus (MLV) vaccine for healthy cattle 3 to 8 days and older. He says that this product challenges traditional thinking that young calves can’t respond to treatment because they have an immature immune system.
Onset 5 IN is designed to stimulate at the site of infection an immune response to
Bovine Virus Diarrhea (BVD) Type 1 and Type 2, Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Parainfluenza3 (PI3) and Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) – the costliest diseases impacting beef and dairy herds.
“Onset 5 IN is changing the way the beef and dairy industries think about the immune development of calves and, subsequently, the ability to help beef and dairy calves get off to a strong immunological life,” says Dr. Scott Nordstrom, Manager of Veterinary Technical Services for Intervet.
He says, “The bovine fetus has a much more mature immune system than originally believed.1 In fact, the immune system of the fetus is functional at approximately 170 days of gestation. We’ve also learned that development of the immune system is independent of antibody production, meaning the immune system can respond to an appropriately-delivered vaccine without antibody interference. This knowledge underpins the developmental science of Onset 5 IN and is why the intranasal route of administration of Onset 5 IN is so important.”
You can listen to my interview with Scott here: ams-08-nordstrom.mp3
Ag Media Summit Photo Album
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At today’s annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, new officers and board members were elected.
The new President is Holly Martin, High Plains Journal, pictured in the center of the group here. Holly says that the big push this year for AAEA will be the combined AMS and IFAJ Congress next year in Ft. Worth. She says they’ll be working on organization and developing additional support for the event which will be a great opportunity to showcase American agriculture to the world. AAEA appears to be in great shape and has 400 members.
I spoke to Holly after the meeting and you can listen to our conversation here: ams-08-martin.mp3
You’ll find photos from the AAEA annual meeting in the photo album.
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Trimble just announced last week that revenue for its second quarter of 2008 was up approximately 15 percent compared to last year. For the Field Solutions segment of the company, the increase was 68 percent, driven primarily by strong demand for agricultural products.
I had a chance to sit down with Rob Lindores, Director of Marketing for Trimble Agricultural, about what the company is doing in the area of precision farming and how they are helping farmers be more productive and efficient.
Listen to my interview with Rob here.
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