A new research summary shows that BASF Headline® fungicide effectively controls a broad spectrum of corn and soybean diseases, provides Plant Health benefits, and maximizes crop yields. The Headline Fungicide Yield Research Summary demonstrates that the BASF fungicide provides corn growers approximately a 3 bu/A yield advantage over other available fungicides. “Growers are constantly weighing the practices and inputs they …
Alltech Games Day
Here’s one way to get your employees excited about an upcoming promotion. Create your own holiday. It’s official. Alltech has named July 9th “Alltech Games Day.” In anticipation of the largest sporting event to come to the United States since the 2002 Winter Olympics, Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech, has announced that all 120 Alltech offices located …
NAFB Foundation Scholarship Recipients
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Foundation just announced their 2010 scholarship recipients. The Foundation is pleased to announce the 2010 selections: Taylor James, Kansas State University, Glenn Kummerow Scholarship, $5,000 Denise Donley, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, $4,000 Julie Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $4,000 The NAFB Foundation Board of Directors would like to congratulate these students. In addition to their …
2010 NAMA Boot Camp Registration
Registration is now open for this year’s NAMA Boot Camp. Join us for the 7th annual NAMA Boot Camp, August 17-19, 2010 in Kansas City. Sign up for this program today to learn more about the agri-marketing industry. This year the Boot Camp will take it to a new level expanding on marketing and agriculture basics. Sessions at this year’s …
ZimmComm Client Site On Forbes Top 100
Congratulations to Cali Yost. Her website/blog Work+Life Fit made the Forbes Top 100 Websites For Women. Cali has been a ZimmComm client for years and had this to say when she let us know about the distinction: I thought I would share this with you because my blog was just named one of the Top 100 Websites for Women by …
Missourians For Animal Care Continues HSUS Battle
Missourians For Animal Care continue to fight the HSUS battle by releasing another video to help create public awareness. Our mission is to promote and protect Missouri’s vibrant and diverse agriculture, which includes livestock and domesticated animals. Like ’em on Facebook. A ballot initiative is currently underway in the state of Missouri. This ballot initiative is called “The Puppy Mill …
Atrazine Ban Would Cost Jobs
A University of Chicago economist says banning the herbicide Atrazine would add to the current unemployment level in the United States. According to University of Chicago economist Don L. Coursey, a ban on the herbicide atrazine would cost between 21,000 and 48,000 jobs from corn production losses alone. His findings were presented today at a National Press Club briefing sponsored …
Farm Workers Wanted
Unemployment is at 9.5 percent – which means in human terms that about 14.6 million Americans are looking for work right now. That’s a lot of people collecting unemployment. A couple of weeks ago, United Farm Workers (UFW) launched a campaign called “Take Our Jobs”, urging Americans to sign up for farm labor jobs that are normally done by migrant …
Then Versus Now
Each fall, we cruise past fields where combines are busy harvesting crops, averaging 200 bushels per acre at 6 mph with a 6- or 12-row corn head. We have augers and grain bins and yield monitors and so many numbers our computers, not our notepads, are full to the brim. Now let’s rewind about 80 years. I have to preface …
Zimfo Bytes
Planting operations just got more precise and easier to monitor with the new SeedStar XP monitoring system from John Deere. Sandhill Farms was honored with the 2010 Beef Improvement Federation Seedstock Producer of the Year award during the 2010 BIF Annual Meeting and Research Symposium June 30. The NAFB Foundation is committed to the future of the ag and rural …