The USDA has named the winner in its Name the Healthy Bird Contest. “Healthy Harry” is the name that Shelley Petersen of Glendale, Arizona and Patti Sheppard of Millville, New Jersey came up with and will be the name of the plucky mascot for the Biosecurity For Birds campaign, which raises awareness about infectious diseases that can threaten backyard poultry: …
Farm Foundation Forum Tackles Obesity, Food & Policy Issue
Our friends at Farm Foundation are offering another one of their free conversations on agricultural policy in this country … this time tackling the issue of the connection between obesity, food and the nation’s agricultural policy on Tuesday, November 9 from 9-11 am at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. : What’s the Connection? Presenters will be: * Jon …
American Farmland Trust Invites You to “Dine Out for Farms” this Week
Need a good excuse to dine out this week? Well, the American Farmland Trust invites you to have a meal out on the town in support of farms in this country now through October 16th: “We hope that many consumers will be a friend to farms and join us at the table during the national Dine Out for Farms™ week …
America’s Favorite Farmers Markets Announced
The American Farmland Trust has announced the winners in its 2010 America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest. More than 50,000 people across the country cast their votes, and these are the top ones selected in each category: Boutique Markets – King George Farmers Market, King George, VA Small Markets – Champaign County Farmers Market, Urbana, OH Medium Markets – Falls Church …
Former UN Sec’y General Awarded World Food Prize Medallion
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has picked up the World Food Prize Foundation’s Norman E. Borlaug Medallion, recognizing world leaders whose actions have benefited mankind but who would not normally be eligible for the World Food Prize. This World Food Prize Foundation press release says Annan was befittingly awarded the medallion during the first-ever African Green Revolution Forum …
Farm Foundation Looks at Farm Bill’s Budget Implications
Some of the best minds in agriculture will get together to discuss and debate the budget implications for the next Farm Bill, Tuesday, Sept. 14 at the next Farm Foundation Forum at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: Presenters will include: Craig Jagger, chief economist of the House Agriculture Committee; Patrick Westhoff of the Food and Agriculture Policy Research …
Soybean Board Sponsors Jeff City, MO Tractor Pull
This weekend, Friday, Aug. 27 & Saturday, Aug. 28, the folks in Jefferson City, Missouri will enjoy the power of the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), courtesy of the United Soybean Board (USB). Todd Gibson, the director of the USB and a soybean farmer from Western Missouri’s Carroll County, says this will be his first professional tractor pull he’s attended, …
Farm Foundation Event to Highlight Local Control of Zoonoses
Some researchers believe local prevention could be the key to controlling zoonoses, infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans or humans to animals. That’s why the Farm Foundation has organized a Sept. 23-24 symposium, titled “Zoonoses: Understanding the Animal Agriculture and Human Health Connection” at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, D.C. Creating community environments in which zoonoses …
Wyffels Attendees Hear About Great Potential in Ag
Too often we hear about all of the negatives in agriculture – bad weather, bad markets, opposition from groups that really don’t understand production agriculture. But attendees of the recent Wyffels Hybrids Corn Strategies 2010 held in a tent on the Cummings family farm just outside of the eastern Iowa town of Malcom heard that there is tremendous potential in …
Awards Handed Out at Int’l Conf. on Precision Agriculture
Nothing like moving across country to put you a bit behind. Just a couple of things left over from last month’s 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture that I wanted to share with you. First and foremost is the awards handed out at the ICPA gathering. The awards were presented by Paul Schrimpf, Group Editor the CropLife Media Group at …