Pork Quality Assurance Plus: Good for Consumers & Producers

John Davis

One of the highlights from this year’s World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines is the celebration of the Pork Quality Assurance Plus program and the milestone of having about 60 percent of all hogs in the U.S. and nearly 50,000 producers certified under the program’s guidelines. Chris Novak, Chief Executive Officer of the National Pork …

Audio, Novus International, Pork, Swine, World Pork Expo

BASF Introduces Sustainability Analysis Tool

Cindy Zimmerman

Sustainability has become a challenge to the agriculture industry because everyone seems to have a different definition of the word and ways to objectively measure sustainability are seriously lacking. BASF announced an Eco-Efficiency Analysis tool during the 2010 Ag Media Summit in Chicago today that examines the entire lifecycle of a crop to measure and manage sustainability. “When we look …

Audio, BASF, Sustainability, Uncategorized

Carney: More Upbeat at This Year’s World Pork Expo

John Davis

It’s a much more upbeat attitude at this year’s World Pork Expo in at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. National Pork Producers Council President Sam Carney, a pork producer from Adair, Iowa, welcomed members of the media this morning and says they are expecting much bigger crowds than they’ve seen in the last couple of years because of …

Audio, Novus International, Pork, Swine, World Pork Expo

China Perspective On CUTC

Chuck Zimmerman

The Corn Utilization and Technology Conference has international participants. We have quite a few from China. I had an opportunity to speak with Li Bin, CEO, Xin Jiang Tianda Biotechnology Co., Ltd., pictured here with Linyi Li, Novozymes China, my interpreter. Thank you Linyi! I asked him what stimulated his interest in participating. He says that corn utilization in China …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, CUTC, International

Info, Food and Fun at World Pork Expo!

John Davis

It’s World Pork Expo eve (that’s a holiday, right?), and we’re here in Des Moines, Iowa to keep you up-to-date on all the news from event. This evening as producers, industry leaders and media converge on Central Iowa in anticipation of the next three days of information, I caught up with Cindy Cunningham, Assistant Vice President of Communications with the …

Audio, Novus International, Pork, World Pork Expo

CUTC Encouraging New Uses For Corn

Chuck Zimmerman

It looks like we have nearly 300 people attending the 2010 Corn Utilization and Technology Conference. I sat down with NCGA President and South Dakota corn farmer, Darrin Ihnen, this morning and we talked about the need for this kind of conference. Darrin says CUTC brings out ideas that are still in the development stage while helping the industry come …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, CUTC, NCGA

Fluidigm Introduces First Reusable Bio-Chip

Chuck Zimmerman

Fluidigm Corporation held a joint press conference this morning with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service to announce their new reusable bio-chip architecture which is a first for the commercial market. These reusable integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) will dramatically lower SNP genotyping costs and are designed to support accelerated sample throughput, while maintaining data quality of 99.75 percent or greater accuracy …

Agribusiness, Audio, Research, Technology, USDA

Ag Research Key To New Green Revolution

Chuck Zimmerman

I previewed the keynote address to open the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference earlier today. Now here’s the full comments from Dr. Gale Buchanan, former USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. Dr. Buchanan was introduced by NCGA President, Darrin Ihnen, and I’m also posting his welcome message. During the next couple days I’ll be doing …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, CUTC, Research

The CUTC Keynote Will Focus On Ag Productivity

Chuck Zimmerman

This is the welcoming committee here at the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference. Actually, our keynote speaker at this afternoon’s opening general session, Gale Buchanan, former USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics, just happened to be registering at the same time I was. Gale is always happy to help anyone so I got a pre-CUTC …

Audio, Corn, CUTC