The aviators attending the NAAA Convention got to hear some optimistic news today from Dr. Abner Womack, University of Missouri (pictured on right). He was here to talk about the results of the latest FAPRI outlook. I asked him what the news was. For one thing he says that inputs are coming down. Then over on the price side he …
BASF Makes Business Soar for Ag Aviators
BASF Headline has been a boon for the agricultural aviation business and the fungicide was in the spotlight during technical sessions on the first day of the NAAA convention in Las Vegas on Monday. Jim Gaffney is market manager for BASF aerial application strategy and he presented some results for low volume Headline application. “A couple years ago, BASF introduced …
NAAA Kickoff Breakfast Features Pilot’s Story
The opening breakfast for the National Agricultural Aviation Association convention this morning featured a compelling story of survival, rescue and personal success by accomplished military Strike Eagle pilot Brian Udell. He is pictured here next to his wife, along with NAAA president Bob Bailey and executive director Andrew Moore. With a story eerily similar to the F-18 crash today in …
NAAA Convention Underway
The National Agricultural Aviators Association Convention is officially underway after Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF, welcomed everyone at the kickoff breakfast. BASF is not only sponsoring our coverage of the meeting but is also a major sponsor once again of the convention. He told them that BASF is all about “keeping them in the air.” You can hear Gary’s remarks here: …
Multimedia Musings With DTN/The Progressive Farmer
While I was in Chicago for the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar I also got to stop in at the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. They’ve been a sponsor of AgWired and some of our collateral material like the ZimmNews and ZimmCast for a few months now. I found publisher, Adrian Blake, and we sat down for a discussion. I …
The JackPlot!™ Background
Cindy wrote a great post on the JackPlot!™Vegas.com website that provides the whole background of the project. Since this is a great example of creative agrimarketing and integrating the use of new media I just thought I’d share it: The JackPlot!™ game is a pretty unique way of reaching out to farmers beyond traditional advertising and trade show exhibiting. One …
Combination of Control Options Works Best on PRRS
The whole focus of today’s BI Foundations Seminar is on area and regional control of the PRRS virus. One of our presenters did some research on just how well applying control techniques works on a wide area basis. He’s Dr. Dale Polson. He presented findings from a project that applied the principals of control to a large production system over …
Vaccines in PRRS Control
The first presentation at the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar was on the “Impact of a modified-live PRRS vaccine intervention on a population of pigs infected with a heterologous isolates.” Presenting was Dr. J. P. Cano from Venezuala. His presentation was on the results of 2 different studies that showed an increase in clinical response to a virus challenge. He says, …
Time Is Right For PRRS Control
The man who is keeping the program running here today at the BI Foundations Seminar is Dr. Bob Morrison. He’s our emcee and right now as I post this, our panel leader. I spoke with him on our break to learn more about what BI is trying to accomplish. He says that by bringing together presentations on various aspects of …
JackPlot!™ Winners
It looks like Cindy made it through the National JackPlot!™Finals in Las Vegas. I’ll be joining her there later on today after the BIVI Foundations Seminar I’m attending in Chicago. So here’s her post on who won: It got down to a Husker vs. Husker contest in the Final Four with the two Nebraska teams taking first and second place. …