RFA Ethanol Podcast

What’s New With Trimble and Pioneer

Chuck Zimmerman

In this holiday shortened week the ZimmCast will feature two interviews I conducted at the recent NAFB convention to find out what’s new in the world of agribusiness from Trimble and Pioneer Hi-Bred. I interviewed George Huber, Trimble, who talks about virtual reference stations and “the connected farm.” He says this allows you to get data to and from your …

Audio, Corn, NAFB, Pioneer, Precision Agriculture, ZimmCast

Off The Cob Podcast

Chuck Zimmerman

The National Corn Growers Association has just started a new podcast series. Welcome to “Off the Cob”, an original podcast series produced by the National Corn Growers Association. This series features interviews with grower-leaders on hot topics in agriculture and will expand media options for those wishing to further their knowledge of the industry. The first piece looks at the …

Ag Groups, Audio, Corn, NCGA, Podcasts

Corn Yield Contest Winners Annouced

Chuck Zimmerman

The National Corn Yield Contest winners have been announced. It’s been a challenging growing season weather wise but yields have been great. The National Corn Yield Contest is in its 45th year and remains NCGA’s most popular program for members. This year, NCGA has processed 6,960 entries – a 3.5 percent increase over 2008 (6,727 entries) and 41 percent increase …

Ag Groups, Corn, NCGA

Headline Harvest Report from Conrad, Iowa

Cindy Zimmerman

Getting these BASF Headline harvest reports done this fall (yes, it is still fall) has been a challenge, to put it mildly. We’ve been trying desperately to get interviews set up with farmers since late October – in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. We did okay in Missouri, but when the harvest kept getting later and the rain kept falling, it …

Audio, BASF, Corn, Soybean

Infrared Grain Testing

Chuck Zimmerman

When the U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission team visited a feed mill this morning owned by the Hamoudeh Group they saw some state of the art grain testing. The company has infrared grain testing equipment which quickly analyzes a sample and provides a printout of a number of the qualities most important to them. You can see a sample being …

Corn, Grains, International, USGC, Video

Largest Dairy Producer In Jordan

Chuck Zimmerman

The largest integrated dairy producer in Jordan is Hamoudeh Group and the U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission team visited their largest facility northeast of Amman which houses about 4,000 cows. Before getting a tour we heard a presentation from Marwan Hawari, pictured center showing some grain test results to team members, at their feed mill. I’ll have a video clip …

Audio, Corn, International, Poultry, USGC

Jordan’s National Poultry Company

Chuck Zimmerman

The National Poultry Company in Jordan is managed by Mousa Wakileh who met with the U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission team. Mousa would like to see more education of traders and producers in order to increase imports of corn from the U.S. He’s also predicting a 50 percent increase in poultry consumption per capita in Jordan over the next five …

Audio, Corn, International, Poultry, USGC

Monsanto and BASF to Develop NutriDense Corn Hybrids

Cindy Zimmerman

BASF Plant Science and Monsanto today announced they will be working together to develop new corn hybrids with better nutrition for animal feed. The new hybrids will contain BASF’s NutriDense® traits that are designed to enhance animal feed performance. NutriDense corn has higher levels of essential amino acids and energy, greater phosphorous availability and is more digestible. BASF’s NutriDense traits …

BASF, Corn, Feed