Almost 3,000 delegates descended on Lexington, Kentucky today to attend the 28th Annual International Symposium. Delegates can now plan their attendance, find information on speakers and follow and contribute to pre-event discussions through the Symposium app which is available to download for all mobile devices.
If Alltech has almost 3,000 guests attending Symposium and 1,620 of those will attend our facility tours, and a tour bus will hold 54 people... how many buses will Alltech need? Answer = A lot!
Tomorrow morning Alltech will open the doors and welcome over 2,800 guests to our Annual International Symposium. The first Alltech Symposium was held in a single hotel meeting room in 1985. There were 37 people in attendance watching presentations on a single slide projector. Alltech was only four years old at the time.
Earlier this year Yahoo’s Education site published a list of “useless” college degrees. Agriculture was at the top of the list. Animal Science came in fourth and Horticulture was number 5. The list is based on conclusions made by Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., author of "The 10 Best College Majors for Your Personality." He analyzed and interpreted U.S. Department of Labor statistics.