This is pretty much the pose you see at a Trade Talk booth. Here’s NAFB president, Emery Kleven, conducting an interview.
A real issue at Trade Talk is that there’s so many booths and so little time. There’s just no way one person can possibly make it for even a short visit to all the booths here. I think there’s 98 booths and in my best year I’ve done 34 interviews in one Trade Talk and I think that’s a lot. At least that’s all I could do since my voice quit working at that point.
By the time you’ve done a dozen interviews it gets very difficult to focus and concentrate on the subject matter. That’s when the public relations staff really comes in handy. You just enter the booth and say “What do you want me to ask you?” And thankfully they have handy little talking points to help us do our interview.
The NAFB convention is underway here in Kansas City and one of the first main activities is Trade Talk. This is a unique trade show where companies and organizations exhibit with representatives who are available to be interviewed by the attending broadcasters who hopefully will use the interviews in their broadcasts, or in our case, podcasts.
The question is, “Who’s in the boots?” This is for me to know and you to find out. I’m wondering if anyone can guess the identity of the owners of these.
When I asked what would be the ideal place to take a picture inside the new AdFarm offices in Kansas City, it was a unanimous “the windmill” so here we are. In the photo are Scott Kurfman (l) and Bob Wilhelm (r).
Continuing our little series of photos from the AdFarm open house. Here’s the upstairs entrance way with greeting committee number 2. The open house was very well attended and keeping with what KC, MO is famous for they had plenty of great barbeque!
Before things really got going at the NAFB convention this week agricultural advertising agency, 
At the NAMA Agribusiness Forum it was interesting to see a presentation on customer focused marketing from a very non-ag company. 
Here’s your exclusive first look/listen to a “new” 
You can see a lot more of what was happening today on the NAMA Agribusiness Forum blog at www.namaconnect.org. AgWired is sponsoring and posting.
At the NAMA Agribusiness Forum the evening reception featured putt-putt golf. My team (Monte Reese, Steve Taylor and Judi Lampe) were the Earthly Beef and seen listed here in the winners position. That is until they started this thing about letting people buy points to add to other teams scores. When it was all over with we lost first place. I just think this is unfair. We won it fair and square on the field where it counts! So there. Anyway it was all in fun for a good cause.