Two U.S. organic beef producers are teaming up to expand the nation’s organic beef supply. CROPP Cooperative, North America’s largest farmer owned co-op, and Dakota Beef, the largest vertically integrated organic beef producer in the U.S., have partnered in a mutli-year agreement. Consumer demand for high quality organic beef has been exceptional and this partnership will ensure supply to an …
Knowing Novus Now
The week Cindy will be attending the World Pork Expo in Des Moines with our coverage sponsored by Novus International. I was in their office last week to meet with Jeremy Lutgen and Scott Fleetwood. I did an interview with Scott, who is their Executive Director of Marketing and Products. In it you’ll learn a lot more about the company. …
Zimfo Bytes
Jeff Murphy, vice president of sales for Kemin AgriFoods North America, announces the appointment of Marc Hoopingarner as the Key Account Manager responsible for Kemin sales development in the territory which covers Delmarva, West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina. Doug Macklin, who previously serviced these accounts, will now focus solely on managing the Kemin account managers in the East …
Missouri Field Work
It was a beautiful day to be out on the Katy Trail today and with that great weather comes a lot of field work. Here’s some red and green on the job in the Missouri River bottoms. Around here we’re starting to see corn and even some soybeans above ground but there’s still a lot of fields waiting to be …
Multi-Track Editing With SoundBooth CS4 Beta
For you aspiring audio editors or farm broadcasters out there with a Mac, multi-track editing just got easier. I’ve been using Adobe Soundbooth and wondering why they never made a version of Audition for the Mac. Well they still haven’t but they’ve got a new version of Soundbooth in beta and I just edited tomorrow’s ZimmCast with it. It’s still …
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days
In this day of precision agriculture you can still go old school at a show like the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. Although the 2008 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days taking place in Brown County will showcase the latest technological advances in agriculture, it will also pay tribute to the technology that helped farmers increase their productivity in the early 20th Century. …