Sorghum Fueling Food Aid

Chuck Zimmerman

Representing the National Sorghum Producers on the Commodity Classic stage this morning was Chairman of the Board, Gerald Simonsen. We learned some interesting things about sorghum such as how 30 percent of the crop goes into ethanol and when it comes to export and food aid it’s big too. And last year sorghum was the number one requested food commodity …

Ag Leader, Audio, Commodity Classic, sorghum

Exports Vital To Wheat Growers

Chuck Zimmerman

National Association of Wheat Growers President, Karl Scronce had his turn with Mark Mayfield on stage here at Commodity Classic. Exports and trade was the first subject to come up in the interview. Karl says exports are vitally important and the U.S. is the biggest exporter in the world. He says trade has been very sporadic depending on the time …

Ag Groups, Audio, Commodity Classic, Wheat

Biodiesel Tax Credit Needed Now

Chuck Zimmerman

In the general session at Commodity Classic we heard from the President of the American Soybean Association, Rob Joslin. Rob was interviewed by session moderator Mark Mayfield. Rob says one of his goals has been to visit as many of the ASA state affiliates as he can and he’s over half way there. He thinks it’s important to know what …

Ag Groups, ASA, Audio, Commodity Classic, Soybean

NCGA President Takes The Stage

Chuck Zimmerman

South Dakota Corn Grower, Darrin Ihnen, President of the National Corn Growers Association, took the general session stage this morning with session moderator Mark Mayfield. Mark had a list of questions for each of the commodity group leaders. With Darrin he started out talking about ethanol. Darrin talked about what the corn growers are doing in this area including pushing …

Ag Groups, Audio, Commodity Classic, Corn, NCGA

Sec. Vilsack Speaks At Commodity Classic

Chuck Zimmerman

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke to the crowd at Commodity Classic just moments ago. You can listen to his full speech below. Joanna is attending his press conference right now and I’ll post audio from it later. Some of the standout phrases I heard included, “Different strategies for different markets” when he was talking about expanding world trade. …

Audio, Commodity Classic, USDA

Nebraska Soybean President Wins New Holland Mower

Cindy Zimmerman

Hopefully, Scott Richert’s wife believes him by now. He really did win the New Holland G4050 Zero Turn Radius mower in the drawing held at the New Holland exhibit at the Commodity Classic trade show Thursday evening. Scott is president of the Nebraska Soybean Association and lives in Gresham, Nebraska. He was the sixth name to be drawn out of …

Audio, Commodity Classic, New Holland

Leica Geosystems Announces mojo3D

Chuck Zimmerman

Leica Geosystems is represented here at Commodity Classic by Harlan Little, North American Business Manager. He showed me information that has just been released about their new mojo3D which puts mapping and guidance in a “new perspective.” Designed to help growers get the job done more quickly and efficiently, the system combines a unique, three-dimensional user interface with rugged, water-resistant …

Agribusiness, Audio, Leica Geosystems, Precision Agriculture, Technology

Soybean Superstar Speaks at BASF Seminar

Cindy Zimmerman

You can never get enough of the always entertaining World Soybean Yield Champion Kip Cullers. During the BASF Science Behind Soybeans seminar at the 2010 Commodity Classic on Wednesday, Kip talked about the recent trip he took to Brazil and what he learned there. “The reason I went to Brazil is because, if you want to learn something, you got …

Audio, BASF, Commodity Classic, Soybean, Uncategorized