Chuck gets back from 11 days on the road Saturday and has one day to unpack and repack before heading out to learn more about how agriculture protects water quality and improves soil health at the Conservation Technology Information Center, Conservation In Action Tour, August 2-3.
The tour will visit farm operations in east central Virginia that embody “Conservation in Action.” The final stop of the tour will also feature a Nutrient Use Efficiency Expo of tools, technology and equipment that make nutrient use more efficient, more profitable and more effective. Companies making this event possible include Syngenta, Pioneer, The Fertilizer Institute, John Deere, Mosaic, and AGROTAIN International.
I talked with AGROTAIN’s Tim Healey about their participation in the event and the importance of communicating with farmers about the efficient use of nutrients. Listen to or download that interview here:
Tim Healey Interview
Because the tour size was limited, CTIC and AGROTAIN are both sponsoring coverage of the event here on Agwired to bring the educational information offered there to farmers who are unable to attend. Start watching for CTIC Conservation in Action coverage here starting on Monday.
Sophie Marquis works for 
When it comes to sustainable food production, enhanced efficiency fertilizers are starting to play a role. At the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference Charlie Walker, 
Using enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEF’s) in corn and wheat was the subject of a presentation by Greg Schwab, University of Kentucky, at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference. We’re just starting to see these products make their way into large acre crop use.
We had a great mix of international attendees at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference in Miami. I spoke with two of them after being introduced by 
In this week’s program we’ll learn about the 
Enhanced turf nutrition was the subject of a presentation by Elizabeth Guertal, Auburn University, at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference.
For some insight into the N-sight technique we heard from Brian Wade, 
One of our keynote speakers at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference was Ardell Halvorson, USDA-ARS. His focus was on the effect of EEF’s on nitrous oxide emissions from various cropping systems.
There are people from universities as well as fertilizer companies attending the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference. These are the guys from 
One of our keynote speakers at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference is Sarah Landels, Managing Director, 
We seems to have a full house for The New Ag International Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizer Conference here in Miami. We’re now in the afternoon sessions. I’ve been conducting interviews and recording presentations and I’ll probably be posting them over the next week or so.
The New Ag International Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizer Conference is underway. Our opening general session is underway. I will be posting from the session later.
Next week I’ll be covering the 
Agrotain is a product to be used with urea fertilizer. “Urea is a really great product for farmers to be using because it’s safe and abundant and it’s relatively inexpensive,” said Stegmann. “But it’s got a problem and that problem is when its applied to the surface, part of it is lost back into the environment.” A third actually. Stegmann continued, “When that loss occurs it’s not only an economic loss to the grower but also represents an environmental issue.”
You might remember 
No forum on world food security issues would be complete without a session on climate change and that was how the 
It should be no surprise that sustainability is the most often used word here at the World Agricultural Forum’s World Ag Congress in St. Louis since the agriculture industry as a whole remains under the microscope when it comes to environmental issues.
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