Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) announced that Tim Bettington has been named the senior associate director of swine marketing. Bettington has served the global animal health industry for over a decade.
Asoyia has finalized an agreement with two key venture capital firms, securing $4 million to expand marketing, research and development of its ULTRA low linolenic soybean products. St. Louis-based Prolog Ventures led the round and was joined by LSP (Life Science Partners) of Boston.
Bill Stovell has joined Farm Journal Media as a National Accounts Manager for Farm Journal Database Strategies. In his new position, Stovell will be responsible for the company’s database (products and services) sales efforts with a focus on the livestock industry.
Soyatech announced that it will host Soya & Oilseed Summit 2008 in St. Louis, Mo., on Sept. 17-19 at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel. The conference will explore practical strategies to address the challenges and opportunities that arise as global competition for competing resources continues to escalate. For more information, click here, email soyasummit@soyatech.com, or call 800.424.SOYA (7692), ext. 114. Discounts for early registration apply before July 1, 2008.
At this evening’s BASF Media Summit dinner our speaker was political analyst Charlie Cook. Here he is getting interviewed before our meal.
Charlie thinks we’re going to have a very close Presidential race and that there’s an event yet to happen that will have an important effect on the outcome. He says that Hillary is done and coming in for a soft landing.
I started the interview you see still going on in the picture and you can download and listen to it here: Charlie Cook Interview (5 min MP3)
I don’t think Ray Gilmer, BASF Group Communications Manager, could have scripted a more perfect evening to close out their Media Summit here in Washington, DC.
We just finished our final dinner on top of the Hay-Adams Hotel right across from the White House which makes a great background for a picture. I’ve got quite a few more in the photo album so check them out. Thank you Tricia Braid Terry, RFD Radio Network, for taking the picture.
Before I get to BASF innovation I just have to let you know this is post # 5,000 on AgWired. Talk about some new media innovation!
Our first speaker this morning at the BASF Media Summit was Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, BASF Executive Board member. His job was to provide us with an overview of the company and a key word in his presentation was “Innovate.” Keeping with the theme of From Research to Reality, he says that BASF invests significantly in R&D which leads to innovation and that fuels the constant re-invention of the company.
I like his remark that the future is the “time zone where we’ll spend the rest of our lives.”
According to Dr. Marcinowski, BASF is the number one chemical company in the world in sales. He says their income has tripled in the last 10 years.
Wow. What a morning here at the BASF Media Summit. After doing some live video streaming, interviews, pictures and recordings we got to have lunch with USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Bruce Knight.
Bruce talked about the farm bill of course. He used a description from a story in the Washington Post which called the current proposal “an overstuffed turkey.” When he was asked about so many farm groups coming out in support of the proposal he basically said that if he was a special interest group he’d be pretty pleased with it too. However, he said that just because a lot of groups support it, that doesn’t make it good for Americans.
Apparently we’re going to be moving to different rooms this afternoon so this morning’s episode of AgWired Live TV is over but I have several recorded interviews like the following one with Mike Heinz, BASF President, Crop Protection Division.
Thanks to all of you who watched and made it through our internet access disappearing for a few minutes.
I didn’t know we had internet access here in the BASF Media Summit presentation room so I had to move my set up but we’re live and I’m going to stay live for the rest of the day.
You can see the live stream showing up on my Mac here in the back of the room.
Right now we’re near the end of the first session of speakers.
Somebody just turned the air conditioning on which has been really needed here this morning.
This is going to be a fun day of live web streaming activity. Hopefully I’ll bring you some live interviews during our breaks.
The BASF Media Summit is underway and we’ve got a big group of journalists here. I didn’t count but most seats are filled.
I’m recording the presentations and will be doing one on one interviews with each of them as well as having some on AgWired Live TV at the times listed in the last post.
Our first speaker, Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, BASF Executive Board member, just finished his presentation which included an overview of the company and their priorities. Right now we’re hearing from Dr. Peter Eckes, Senior VP, Global R&D, Crop Protection.
Here’s the schedule for when I intend to be live on AgWired Live TV.
10:15 – 10:30am
12:00 – 12:15
3:00 – 4:00pm, eastern time. Approx. live break times.
Our sessions are across the hall in a different room where I don’t have internet access so I’m going to be be bringing people to the media room for some live interviews. Check us out:
AgWired Live TV
At this evening’s BASF Media Summit dinner our speaker was political analyst 
I don’t think Ray Gilmer, BASF Group Communications Manager, could have scripted a more perfect evening to close out their Media Summit here in Washington, DC.
Before I get to BASF innovation I just have to let you know this is post # 5,000 on AgWired. Talk about some new media innovation!
Wow. What a morning here at the BASF Media Summit. After doing some live video streaming, interviews, pictures and recordings we got to have lunch with USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Bruce Knight.
I didn’t know we had internet access here in the BASF Media Summit presentation room so I had to move my set up but we’re live and I’m going to stay live for the rest of the day.
This is going to be a fun day of live web streaming activity. Hopefully I’ll bring you some live interviews during our breaks.
The BASF Media Summit is underway and we’ve got a big group of journalists here. I didn’t count but most seats are filled.
Here’s the schedule for when I intend to be live on