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Successful Farming Magazine

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By Jeff Caldwell, Multimedia editor

editor in Chief Loren Kruse exeCutive editor John Walter art direCtor Nancy Nicholas Itani maChinery direCtor Dave Mowitz

Have you ever gleaned a big idea from a bull session ^{CropS and SoilS editor Rich Fee} farm iSSueS editor Cheryl Tevis at the coffee shop that’s yielded good results on buSineSS editor Dan Looker your farm? Imagine that coffee shop, only multiply ^{CropS teChnology editor Gil Gullickson} Copy and produCtion manager Janis Gandy

the number of coffee cups by thousands. That’s essentially deputy maChinery editor Laurie Potter
what you get when you enter in to the Marketing Talk ^{marketS bureau Chief Mike McGinnis}
multimedia editor Jeff Caldwell

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discussion groups at _{® multimedia produCer Jason Meeker} Agriculture Online Agriculture Online Content editor Paula Barbour

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_{( www.agriculture.} Contributing editor, beef inSider
Contributing editorS Alan Kluis, Greg Peterson, Roger Welsch
com/marketingtalk). The Marketing Contributing editor, Sf^® radio magazine Darrell Anderson
Talk discussion group has a devoted dairy editor emerituS James R. Borcherding
editorial offiCe Coordinator Debbie Evans
membership who are never shy when
_{it comes to critiquing one another’s} PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION / ADVERTISING SALES
publiSher Scott Mortimer
marketing plans. Start or join a SaleS development managerS
conversation about your strategies or find ^{Curt Blades, Jim McGough, Jana Rieker}
SaleS exeCutiveS
out how factors like crop conditions are Janelle Buxton, Eric Marzen, Sarah Miller, Marty Wolske
influencing the grain markets. With all ^{marketplaCe SaleS Amber Kohlhaas}
marketing Creative ServiCeS Mark McManus
the influences on the grain trade today, it’s multimedia/eventS Coordinator Tricia Uitermarkt
important to stay on top of everything, See how the action ^{adminiStrative aSSiStantS Jeanette Garcia, Linda Warnock}
and one starting point for staying on the CBOT trad- Senior ConSumer marketing direCtor Jon Macarthy
informed is Marketing Talk. ing floor is affecting ^{ConSumer marketing aSSoCiate direCtor Dan Holland}
buSineSS manager Jeff Stiles
your marketing plan in produCt marketing manager Diana Willits
Stay up to date with marketeye Marketing Talk. ^{Senior produCtion manager Lucy Russo}
advertiSing operationS manager Jim Nelson
While you’re checking out what’s new _{digital imaging SpeCialiSt Steve Lause}
in Marketing Talk, look for reports from
exeCutive viCe preSident Doug Olson

Photograph: Josh Sears.

marketeye, a regular contributor to the group whose spot _{viCe preSident/group publiSher Tom Davis} on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) floor gives him a

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first-hand view of what’s happening each trading day. In _{preSident Jack Griffin}
his “From the floor” reports, see what traders and analysts ^{finanCe and adminiStration Mike Riggs}
manufaCturing Bruce Heston

are saying about each day’s trade, and find out what factors ConSumer marketing Dave Ball are behind the latest price swing. Add your comments and ^{Corporate SaleS Michael Brownstein} _{meredith 360° Jack Bamberger} questions, and connect to the CBOT floor. Go to www.interaCtive media Doug Olson agriculture.com/marketingtalk and look for “From the ^{interaCtive media SaleS Lauren Wiener} Corporate marketing Nancy Weber floor” for the latest trading day’s comments. reSearCh ^{Britta Ware}

Weather will always be one of the biggest fundamentals in the grain trade. Find out what to expect out your back door ^CORPORATION at the Agriculture Online Weather page ( www.agriculture. ^{preSident and Chief exeCutive offiCer Stephen M. Lacy} _{Chairman of the board William T. Kerr} com/ag/weather/). in memoriam – E. T. Meredith III (1933-2003)

Chief teChnology offiCer Tina Steil new media marketing ServiCeS Andy Wilson what’S the weather doing?

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