Dr. Jeff Watts is the associate research fellow, head, Laboratory Sciences, Microbiology Support Laboratory at the Veterinary Medicine Research and Development facility for Pfizer Animal Health. That’s a long title and he’s in charge of some pretty serious research. At the recent media event held at the VMRD he spoke about, “antimicrobial susceptibility testing of BRD pathogens.”
Wow. You may not think you will understand something that sounds that complex but you’d be wrong. He put what he does in easy to understand language which I needed when I interviewed him. First he reviews the type of research he’s done. To start with he focuses on their products and checking for resistance. Since Pfizer has several products to treat for BRD which have different modes of action he says the producer has choices which they can use if a resistance problem were to show up.
You can listen to my interview with Dr. Watts here: pfizer-vmrd-07-watts.mp3
Or if you’d like you can download it here: 
Dr. Jeff Watts Interview
This is a pretty incredible work of art. At least I think I’d call it art. I don’t know about you but I’ve never carved a pumpkin that I’d be willing to enter into a competition.
Here’s a shot of Willie Vogt, editorial director, 
“Marketing at Top Speed” was the lesson presented to agrimarketers at the NAMA Boot Camp Thursday in Kansas City by 
The agricultural media met for breakfast this morning prior to some classroom presentations and heard from John Lagemann, John Deere, Vice President, Sales – Ag Marketing, Lenexa. 
Farmers and growers will have the opportunity to talk business, politics and more at the first-annual 
The 2007 DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit, “Grow and Prosper: Producer Strategies for High-Risk, High-Reward Agriculture,” will help growers identify grain industry trends for 2008 and refine their marketing and business strategies to deal with them.
The show put on for us here at the John Deere product introduction took over an hour so I’ve edited a video clip of it down to 10 minutes to fit on YouTube for you. It’ll give you a flavor of the show, including the music. 
The John Deere product launch is a real show that includes a full band. These guys started out on drop down mini round stages before stepping out onto the floor.
To give you some perspective on how many new products are being brought to the marketplace by John Deere I thought a list would help. It’s a big one like they’ve been saying and farmers will be seeing most of them on display at shows coming up like next week’s Farm Progress Show.