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BASF Plant Health – Weather or Not

Cindy Zimmerman

Keeping plants healthy in all types of weather conditions was the theme of a BASF Crop Protection presentation at the 2013 Farm Progress Show and if there ever was a year of weather extremes, this has been it. “You can come up with an extreme spell of dryness, an extreme spell of wet weather, you put them together and technically …

Audio, BASF, Crop Protection, Farm Progress Show

ZimmComm Hits 100,000 Photos During IFAJ 2013

Cindy Zimmerman

“I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph, so Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.” Paul Simon Sometime last week during the IFAJ 2013 Congress, ZimmComm reached a milestone of 100,000 photos in our eight-year-old Flickr account. We picked this photo as our 100,000th – since we are not exactly sure but it’s one of our favorites. …

IFAJ, Livestock, Photography

Vote for Your Favorite FMC Anthem Singer

Cindy Zimmerman

Four agricultural students will win scholarship prizes in this year’s FMC “Stand & Be Heard Anthem Singing Contest.” Alexandra Carpenter, Noelle Goodson, Hayley Hall and Alexander Raun (pictured here with FMC’s Paul Redhage) were recently selected by a panel of judges and then traveled to Nashville to take part in a professional Music City recording experience. “The quality of this …

Agribusiness, Crop Protection, FMC

IFAJ 2013 Finale Features Evita and Maria

Cindy Zimmerman

A beautiful performance of Evita’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” was the highlight of the IFAJ 2013 Congress Gala Dinner on the last night of a very memorable trip. One of the event organizers, María Mosquera, said the Congress was a lot of hard work but well worth the effort. “We had almost 200 people registering from 30 countries,” she …

Audio, IFAJ, Video

Corn Communicators Talk Maizall in Argentina

Cindy Zimmerman

Communications directors of three major grain grower organizations in the United States were among those attending the IFAJ 2013 Congress in Argentina this week. It was the first time for Mindy Williamson with the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Marri Carrow with U.S. Grains Council, and National Corn Growers Association Communications Director Ken Colombini to attend the international meeting of agricultural …

Audio, Corn, Farm Progress Show, Grains, IFAJ, International, NCGA, USGC

Buenos Dias from Buenos Aires!

Cindy Zimmerman

Agriblogger and Farmpodcaster have arrived in Argentina to blog the 2013 International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Congress! Not sure how many Americans are making the trip this year but it’s at least a couple dozen. There are 14 pictured in the photo below taken at Ag Media Summit, plus Chuck – and I know of at least 5 more …

AAEA, Events, IFAJ, International, Novus International, Pioneer

Monsanto Update on FieldScripts

Cindy Zimmerman

Last year at Farm Progress Show, Monsanto previewed FieldScripts, the company’s first product from the Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) platform. This year, we got to actually see how it worked in the field – sort of. “Our original plans were to harvest the first FieldScripts here at the Farm Progress Show,” said FieldScripts launch lead for Monsanto Dave Rhylander at …

Audio, Farm Progress Show, Precision Agriculture, Weather

Corn Growers Strong at Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) president Pam Johnson of Iowa and First Vice President Martin Barbre in his home state of Illinois were visiting with farmers and the media at the Farm Progress Show this week. The farm bill is still a big concern for the corn growers and Pam says they are “not waiting very patiently anymore” for …

Audio, Corn, Farm Progress Show, NCGA

Ag Leader Introduces AgFiniti at Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

Ag Leader Technology‘s biggest announcement at Farm Progress Show this week is wireless connectivity in the cab with their new cloud-based platform, AgFiniti®. Users can simply connect the Ag Leader Wi-Fi Adapter to the Ag Leader® Integra or Versa™ display to access a wireless internet network in the cab through any mobile hotspot of their choice, such as a smartphone, …

Ag Leader, Farm Progress Show, Technology, Video