We’re celebrating 50 years at the U.S. Grains Council. I’m in Puerto Vallarta for the 7th USGC International Marketing Conference and 50th Annual Membership Meeting. Tomorrow morning I’ll be going AgWired Live TV with the opening general session starting at 8am, central. So tune if you’d like. I’ll also be recording the session too. If you’re an ag journalist please …
Get on the ISOBUS with TeeJet Technologies!
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the best parts of the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is the cutting-edge technology you see in just about every booth along the way. Companies obviously know this gathering is the perfect place to show off what they’ve got and time the release of many products to coincide with …
EZ-Sync from Trimble to Keep Producers & Offices Connected
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album There’s another innovation from Trimble making its debut at the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Ky. Trimble has sent out this press release introducing its EZ-Sync™ solution, a wireless data transfer capability that provides enhanced information management for growers and agribusinesses. While I was at the Trimble booth checking out the …
Trimble Shows EZ-Surface Software at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album California-based Trimble, a technology company specializing in software that has, among others, applications for agriculture, construction and mapping, has introduced its EZ Surface Software to provide surface drainage analysis and design, especially for farmers and drainage contractors. This marks the first time in the industry where the complete survey, design, layout, machine control, …
Championship Tractor Pull at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the great things about the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Kentucky is that it is held in conjunction with the Championship Tractor Pull … the largest, oldest and most prestigious indoor tractor pull, according to Corinne Fetter, Director of Expositions for the Kentucky State Fair Board. I sat down …
New Holland Wins FinOvation Award at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Chalk up another innovation for our friends at New Holland! The company that is bringing you AgWired’s coverage of the 2010 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is being recognized with Farm Industry News’ FinOvation Award for New Holland’s BB9000 Series large square balers at this year’s show. I caught up with …
A Biodiesel Family
In case you can’t tell, I’m a big fan of the music of Emily Richards and Jason Brock since I first met them at a National Biodiesel Conference years ago. The photo is from one of the screens that was displaying them during their time on stage at the conference and I thought it looked cool. Emily announced that she …
New Holland Exec on State of the Industry
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album I had a chance to chat about the state of the farm machinery industry with Dennis Hann, manager of North American Strategic Planning for New Holland, at the 2010 National Farm Machinery Show. He told me that, even though some segments of the farm economy are suffering, they were seeing serious buyers at …
Joliet Junior College
Joliet Junior College and specifically the Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center was the location of the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair. I spoke with one of their faculty, Bill Johnson (pictured left), about the school. Bill is one of the many volunteers who work to put on the Fair. He says that the College started that state’s first ag program in …
New Holland Workmaster Debut
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album New Holland’s new WORKMASTER™ tractors bear a trusted name, and the same important qualities that made the original WORKMASTER tractors so popular in the 1960s. The new Workmaster made its debut right out of the box and off the boat here at the National Farm Machinery Show. I talked with Mike Stolitca, New …