Because you can’t have too many photos to look at.

How about another photo album?

This Flickr album has most of the pictures I took at the NAMA Conference this year: NAMA 2006 Conference Photo Album

There are 76 of them. Feel free to look and download if you’d like. If you need one at higher resolution just let me know.

Until next time . . .

The closing brunch here at the NAMA Conference features Dr. Barrie Richardson. He’s pictured here (right) with meal sponsor Monte Reese, Cattlemen’s Beef Board.

His presentation is on “The Plus 10% Principle – How to get extraordinary results from ordinary people.” I asked him if there are any ordinary people and how we can apply his ideas in our own lives.

Learn a little from Dr. Richardson here: Dr. Barrie Richardson Interview (5 min MP3)

NAMA’s Marketer of the Year is Tom Davis, Successful Farming.

Tom is a past president of NAMA. I finally caught up to him on closing morning and asked him about what his award means to him

You can hear what Tom has to say, including why he’s jazzed about NAMA here: Tom Davis Interview (2 min MP3)

I think everyone agrees that one of the biggest benefits to attending a NAMA event of any kind is the networking with peers.

As you wander around the convention hotel you’ll see impromptu and planned meetings taking place everywhere.

On the last morning of the NAMA Conference several breakout sessions were held like this one on Consumer Trends Affecting Agriculture.

All the sessions were well attended just prior to the last session of the day.

The World Famous Willie Arthur Smith Marching Cobras entertained us at the closing session of Connection Point.

After parading around the trade show they did a little drumming and dancing.

You can watch a short video clip here: Marching Cobras (3 min wmv)

At the end of the final Connection Point session it’s time to draw winners in all the drawings going on.

One that NAMA has been running as a membership incentive was a chance to win a video iPod (sponsored by yours truly).

The winner was Krystil Smit who was not present.

Hopefully the incentive was helpful. I think that during the time the promotion was running NAMA has had a couple hundred new members. Someone correct me if that’s not right.