The FAO is just concluding e-Agriculture Week in Rome. A week-long dialogue focusing on the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in sustainable agricultural development and food security. “e-Agriculture” is an emerging field comprising the enhancement of agriculture and rural development through improved information exchange, communication and learning processes, based on the use of internet and other digital technologies …
Hereford Product Best In Years
Texas cattle producer Lee Haygood is a board member of the American Hereford Association. He chairs the breed improvement committee which he says is a busy committee but he thinks it’s fun. Lee says the committee oversees the research projects like those we learned about today. He says the industry needs to get more efficient and that the Hereford breed …
National Beef Sells Certified Hereford Beef
One of the companies that Certified Hereford Beef is working with to market their product is National Beef. On hand with us today at lunch was Nick Rausch, National Beef Brand Manager, CHB. He says they target retailers to market the beef and sees penetration into the food service industry as a real growth area but only if they get …
Managing Certified Hereford Beef
The General Manager of Certified Hereford Beef is Arden Gremmert. Arden spoke to us today about the program including giving us a lot of facts and figures. For example, they’re shooting for 25 percent growth in sales in the coming year and one of the ways they’re going to try to accomplish that is through a new food service expansion …
Certified Hereford Beef
Here at the American Hereford Association media day I got to eat Certified Hereford Beef and learn more about the program. The President of Certified Hereford Beef is Bill Cox. He’s a producer from Pomeroy, WA. Bill says he loves the Hereford breed and I think you’ll hear that in my interview with him. Bill says that the research programs …
Overview of the American Hereford Association
The group attending the American Hereford Association media day has just finished another pleasant eating experience. Getting us started here at City Tavern is Craig Huffhines, EVP of AHA. I talked to Craig before we ate and he explains the history of the Hereford breed and AHA. He says they’ve got about 40 employees working in 4 major divisions in …
First Press Conference with Acting Ag Secretary
It didn’t go off quite as planned, but Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner held his first telephone press conference with the media on Monday afternoon. After a brief opening statement, it was opened to questions, but there weren’t any! Even though there were nearly 100 reporters on the line. That was because they apparently had some technical difficulties and an …
IFAJ Congress Wrapup Interviews
In this week’s ZimmCast you get to hear from Masaru Yamada, the main coordinator of the IFAJ Congress that just concluded and a number of the American delegates. Masaru is happy with how the event went and I don’t think he’s ready to do it again anytime soon. I can only imagine what it was like to conduct one of …
Precision Agriculture in Rice Planting
Precision agriculture is hitting the rice industry in Japan. At least it’s in R&D now at the Furukawa Agricultural Research Station. I interviewed Yoshisada Nogasaka, Research Team for Farm Machinery and Systems for NARC, the National Agricultural Research Center. He’s the guy who’s developing the software to run the prototype Autonomous Rice Transplanter we saw on demonstration at the Furukawa …
Learn About Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives
We started out a very long day of activities here at the IFAJ Congress with a sort of a press conference at the “Imagine” studio of the Japan Broadcasting System, NHK. You can see the title on the glass wall of the studio here with the activities going on inside. I don’t have the information on what the building is …