{"id":7139,"date":"2013-05-01T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2013-05-02T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:34:14","slug":"abef-at-the-agri-marketing-conference-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7139","title":{"rendered":"ABEF at the Agri-Marketing Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/golf.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7186\" title=\"golf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/golf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Despite the chilly weather, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nama.org\/abef\">ABEF<\/a> golf tournament kicked off the 2013 Agri-Marketing Conference at Tiffany Greens Golf Course.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0  First place golfers included Les Kahl, AdFarm; Roger Reierson, AdFarm; Shaun Crockett, AdFarm; and Bill Vaughn, Merck.\u00c2\u00a0 Second place went to Doug Catt, Farm Journal Media; Clint Thezan, Farmland Foods; Mike Wegner, National Pork Board; and Lyle Orwig, Charleston Orwig. Taking third was Don Dauterive, Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman; Bob Brunker, J.L. Farmakis; Greg Guse, Paulsen Marketing; and Dennis Bryant, DF Bryant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABEF AUCTION<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ABEF Online Auction is still open! There are many great packages to be had.\u00c2\u00a0 Packages are available for bidding at <a href=\"http:\/\/agday.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=46b0223d98f965d50b60b9eaa&amp;id=3ea811afff&amp;e=62742b8fc5\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nama.org\/abef\/silentauction\/bidco.htm<\/strong><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Auction closes May 31 at 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WALL OF WINE GIVEAWAY<br \/>\n<\/strong>Once again, the NAMA Executive Committee and the ABEF Operating  committee\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0donated over\u00c2\u00a0two cases\u00c2\u00a0of wine\u00c2\u00a0to be given away to one  lucky\u00c2\u00a0individual\u00c2\u00a0who\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0renewed\u00c2\u00a0their century club membership before or  during conference.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Over 84 members signed up or\u00c2\u00a0renewed and the lucky  winner was Kelly Berg with Western Producer Media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABEF STUDENT RAFFLE<br \/>\n<\/strong>Over $3,300 was raised from the student raffle\u00c2\u00a0with Chris Sidles of\u00c2\u00a0 Farm Market iD winning\u00c2\u00a0 the Vizio 55&#8243; Flat Screen TV, courtesy of\u00c2\u00a0  Penton\/Farm Progress.\u00c2\u00a0 A portion of the money raised\u00c2\u00a0will help cover student  expenses for next year&#8217;s conference.\u00c2\u00a0 The top school selling the most  raffle tickets was Delaware Valley College.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the chilly weather, the ABEF golf tournament kicked off the 2013 Agri-Marketing Conference at Tiffany Greens Golf Course.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 First place golfers included Les Kahl, AdFarm; Roger Reierson, AdFarm; Shaun Crockett, AdFarm; and Bill Vaughn, Merck.\u00c2\u00a0 Second place went to Doug Catt, Farm Journal Media; Clint Thezan, Farmland Foods; Mike Wegner, National Pork Board; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,36,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-general","category-student-nama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7240,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}