AgWired

The awards show was a good one last night. Now I’ve got the results and can at least bring you the winners of the Best of NAMA, Best of Show awards:

Advertising

Client: New Holland NA, Dawn Fox
Agency: Colle+McVoy, Jamie Moran
Message: New Holland is the machine for the future
Audience: Entrepreneurial livestock producers, row crop producers and rural lifestylers

Public Relations

Client: Syngenta Crop Protection, Kim Dawson
Agency: Gibbs & Soell, Inc., Caryn Caratelli
Message: To educate the media and consumers on Syngenta as leader in technology and soybean rust resources
Audience: Soybean growers and retailers

Specialty

Client: Pfizer, Inc., Dan Kramer
Agency: Brown+Associates, Sue Brown
Message: Solitude IGR is new, scientifically-advanced technology for dealing with the age-old problem of flies in horse operations
Audience: Horse owners, trainers, breeders and equine veterinarians

Look to the latest issue of AgriMarketing Magazine for a listing of all the winners.

One of the highlights of the annual NAMA convention trade show is the Agri Marketing Magazine toy tractors you have a chance to win.

Each booth gets one with a number on it and each registrant gets a number. We had a winner today. He’s Robert Bulman, BCG Communications, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Congrats Robert. Now if I could just find #304 . . .

Not to confuse you or anything but it was a Cindy afternoon.

This is Cyndi, Cindy and Cindy. You guess their last names.

You know it’s going to be a good party when the Cindys are here.

The NAMA Conference is underway here in Kansas City. Cindy and I are jazzed.

It’s NAMA Connection Point time and we’re set up and ready for business.

Feel free to stop by.

It is a beautiful day here in KC, MO. This is the view from the 31st floor.

When you check in for the NAMA convention you get a registration bag. This is something you have to go through before you do anything else. The bags are very nice ones supplied by Western Producer, Canada’s largest weekly farm newspaper. So I’m looking through the bag to see what there is. Here’s some items of note:

1. Long Lasting Rubber Latex Band supplied by K-Mag. Before you think anything wrong. It’s used to solve the problem of “whose drink is whose.” It’s a bottle bracelet with an ID tag you can write your name on. Pretty cool if you ask me. Don’t you hate it when you lose your drink at a party?

2. The DTN Best of NAMA Celebration Reception Invite. This one has a blinking lights saxophone you wear to the reception and then you get to “receive complimentary beverages.” Can you say drink free?

3. The Colle+McVoy lanyards. These nice orange plastic lanyards with the Colle+McVoy logo hold your name tag in comfort and style.

There’s lots more but I just wanted to highlight a few for you.

I’m here. Let the games begin. It’s NAMA Conference 2006.

There’s a golf tournament going on this afternoon then a reception. I can’t make it but someone’s taking pictures for me.

I’m going to wander around and see what kind of trouble I can get into.