One of the really great things about Farm Foundation events is how the group brings together people from divergent backgrounds and points-of-view to freely discuss the issues affecting American Agriculture today. The latest session at the Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit it is hosting here in Washington, D.C. is another great example of that. Just a few minutes ago, …
Farm Foundation Talks About Providing Food and Fuel in Growing World
The world’s population will grow by 33 percent by the year 2040, but the amount of farmland to feed and fuel that growing demand won’t have to grow by that same one-third… that’s what attendees at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. heard this morning. Greg Webb from Archer Daniels Midland gave that optimistic assessment …
Drive Your First Tractor
Let’s see, Cindy’s on her way to Las Vegas for the JackPlot!™ national finals, John’s in Washington, DC at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit and I’m just about to head out to day two of the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show. Busy times for ZimmComm, eh? Here’s an example of what you’ll be seeing on the Drive …
Stenholm: Who Will Bailout Farmers?
More fascinating conversation today at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. as former Rep. Charlie Stenholm is on the stage again leading a discussion on how to restructure agriculture infrastructure. In the spirit of the current talk of whether the government should bailout the American auto industry, Stenholm is asking the question: “Who will bailout …
Farm Foundation Releases Report on Ag’s 30-Year Challenges
An increasing world population coupled with increasing incomes will pose agriculture with some major challenges over the next three decades, as the world puts greater and greater demands on farmers to meet the world’s food and energy needs. Farm Foundation has released a new report this morning at The Food and Agriculture Policy Summit the group is hosting in Washington, …
Will Stenholm Be Next Ag Secretary?
On a day when he moderated a conversation between seven former Secretaries of Agriculture, speculation swirled that former Rep. Charlie Stenholm would be the next person to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Stenholm’s primary role was to ask questions of the six who attended in person and one who appeared by video at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture …
Next Prez Dominates Farm Foundation’s Ag Secretaries Forum
It was a pretty historic meeting this afternoon at the Farm Foundations’ Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. as six former Secretaries of Agriculture shared the stage and another joined by videotape. This truly bipartisan meeting of the minds was moderated by Farm Journal’s Roger Bernard and former Rep. Charlie Stenholm (who is rumored to be on the …
Florida Spanish Moss
This is spanish moss. I love the stuff. Seeing it means you’re in the south where it’s usually warmer than most of the other places I’m in this time of year. This is a shot I took driving through Starke this afternoon heading to Gainesville, home of my alma mater, UF! I’m going to be having coffee in the morning …
The Show Team
You don’t put together a traveling tractor show without a team of people making it happen. Here’s part of that team. Actually, most of the ones on site here in Middleburg, FL. There are a couple missing because they’re selling tractors to customers. It was a fun first day of the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show. I’ve got …
Former Secs. of Ag Discuss Future
Six former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture… John Block under Pres. Ronald Reagan, Clayton Yeutter under the first Pres. George Bush, Michael Espy and Dan Glickman for Pres. Bill Clinton, and Ann Veneman and Michael Johanns under the second Pres. George (W.) Bush… and one on video… Robert Bergland for Pres. Jimmy Carter… are on the diais today in Washington, D.C., …