AgWired

It’s time to kick off a new week of stories here on AgWired. Let’s start with Novartis Animal Health, US. Why? Because they were the first in the old inbox and because I thought it was interesting that they sent releases out announcing the results of the competition they held at their booth at a recent trade show.

The show was the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Two daily winners were announced:

Christopher C.L. Chase, DVM, PhD and Kim Ehlers, DVM, captured the daily high scores at the recent conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

By playing an interactive quiz sponsored by Novartis Animal Health, the top scorers earned a $1,000 scholarship in their names to be sent to a U.S. veterinary school of their choice. The quiz was part of Novartis’ “Legacy of Leadership” theme for their booth at AABP. The theme tied into the Vira Shield® Legacy of Leadership sweepstakes, which commemorates cattle producers who will buy the 200 millionth dose of Vira Shield this year. Five winners will receive $5,000 to use toward college expenses. The quiz contest was designed to allow veterinarians to help bovine veterinary medicine students continue their education.

This thing apparently was “born from one farmer’s struggle to find farm auction listings on the Internet.” That farmer being Dwayne Leslie, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. I’m posting this since Dwayne commented on my recent article about Sirius satellite radio. He subscribes to the ZimmCast and I’m sending him an invitation to be my guest on an upcoming program. This auction guide business looks like it has turned into serious business for Dwayne.

I also have to point out that Dwayne’s a blogger too! How ’bout them ag bloggers? We’re the few, the proud, the, well I don’t know what else we are but you get the point. Anyway, visit Dwayne on the Global Auction Blog.

The Global Auction Guide Media Group announces the launch of GlobalAuctionBlog.com to help participants keep up with new developments in the traditional onsite auction industry.

Global Auction Guide Media Group is the leading auction advertising network on the Internet with over 17,000 auctions listed in the past 5 years from over 300 of the most progressive auctioneers on the continent. Auctioneers are able to list an unlimited number of sales, items and photos for a very economical monthly fee.

This is appropriate for a Friday afternoon post. I noticed a story on Just-drinks.com that Heineken announced today that they’ll be introducing Heineken Premium Light next spring in the United States. Then in researching it I found this release on the Heineken corporate site that announced this in March. I guess it takes a while to get the ball rolling across the big pond. I’m sure the light version will be just as good as the “original.”

Date: 11 March 2005
Location: Amsterdam, Heineken N.V.
Publisher: Heineken N.V.

The introduction of Heineken Premium Light is consistent with Heineken’s strategy to expandand optimise its product portfolio and to capture an ever-growing share of the premium import segment of the US beer market.