Maybe you remember student blogger on AgWired, Margy Fischer? She helped me cover Commodity Classic this year.
Well she’s now a working professional for Farm Journal, seen here in the field. I hope she’ll put those blogging skills to work in the future!
Thanks to Mica DeLong at Monsanto for the picture.
Prairie swine producers are applauding a Canadian Grain Commission plan to restructure western Canada’s wheat classes.
Last month, the Canadian Grain Commission unveiled plans to eliminate kernel visual distinguishability requirements on all classes of wheat except hard red spring and amber durum and introduce a new general purpose wheat class. The changes, set for August 2008, will clear the way for the registration of high yielding wheat varieties suited for feed or industrial uses such as ethanol, currently not allowed because they resemble milling wheats. Read More
If you’re looking for an “Accomplished marketing services executive with proven strategic planning, management and implementation experience in agricultural, animal health and business-to-business marketing,” then you ought to look into Steve Mercer. Yes, Steve’s got a blog set up and I hope he gets a lot of visitors.
Here’s somebody who’s embracing his inner blogger and letting the world know what he can do. I know that if you wanted to hire Steve you’d want a resume. How about just going to his blog? Depending on how much and often he posts, you’ll be able to Google for him too.
That’s creative and innovative thinking and a great use of new media by the way. Way to go Steve! And best of luck.
I’m sure that these cattle industry professionals are all online checking the latest on AgWired.
I think it’s great that Micro Beef Technologies is making the NCBA Technology Center available for people to do just that. I’m sure they’re checking their email too.
Centers like this are a must have at a convention or major meeting of any kind these days.
It’s never too early to promote the next major event on the cattle industry calendar.
The Cattle Industry Annual Convention will be in Nashville next January.
You can find out more on the internet about the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.
You never know who you’ll run into at a meeting like this.
At one of the early meetings here I found Kathy Cornett and Jay Truitt. They were observing the situation at the NCBA Allied Industry Council & Product Council Meeting.
One of the early meetings here at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference is the Beef Board Executive Committee.
Here’s some of the officers getting things going early. They actually meet for about a half a day before moving on to the next session.
This meeting is probably just about wrapping up as I post this but we’ve still got two more committees of the Beef Board to meet yet today.
The media room is supervised by Joe Schuele and Grace Webb. Here they are hard at work making sure the agribloggers and farm podcasters and other media types are getting what they need.
Actually it’s been a quiet media day for the most part. I’m sure that will change tomorrow
It sure doesn’t look very busy here at the registration desk in Reno.
However, I didn’t stop by for a picture until the meetings were all underway. I’m sure it was busy early.
The ZimmCast is coming to you this week from Reno, Nevada and the Cattle Industry Summer Conference. For your listening pleasure I interviewed the Chairman of the Beef Board, Jay O’Brien. Jay is a cattle producer from Texas.
I asked Jay to explain what the Beef Board hopes to accomplish at this meeting. He says the budget is one of the main jobs they get done. Looking ahead to the new year he says that reaching young people with a message about beef is a priority since research has shown that their awareness level isn’t as high as adults.
Listen here: 
ZimmCast 75 (14 min MP3)
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