It sounds kind of like a new reality show and in a way it is. Country singer Michael Peterson’s “My Real Life, Strong For America Tour” is about spending several days in each town getting to meet lots of members of the community and sharing stories, music, motivation and great ideas about how we can all work to build better …
New Holland’s Booming finOvation
Another finOvation award has been announced. This one for New Holland. Farm Industry News, a monthly magazine that provides high-income farmers with information about new products and technology for the farm, has presented a finOvation award to New Holland’s T2410 and T2420 Boomer™ tractors. The awards are presented to the best innovations of 2007 designed to help producers farm more …
New Holland in Thailand
I’m sure most of you didn’t know this, but I haven’t quite made it back home from the Agritechnica event I covered in Germany in early November. In fact, I’ve only ventured further from home… all the way to Thailand. My first impression of farming in Thailand left me thinking that most of the farming operations were small and local, …
New Holland Earns 3 Medals at Agritechnica
New Holland Communications Manager, Klaus Senghaas like to think their exhibit is the major player in Hall 3 of Agritechnica 2007. The three medals New Holland has secured this year suggest that just might be the case. With 2,000 meters of floor space, New Holland has a handful of tractors and 4 combines on display. The German Agriculture Society, or …
Michael Peterson Performs For Farm-City Week
Thanks once again to Gene Hemphill and New Holland for making it possible for me to cover the National Farm-City Week Luncheon and get to see one of my favorite performers, Michael Peterson. Michael has a great message for anyone in our country and especially our young people. If you’ve never heard Michael then you can watch a short part …
Agritechnica Hands Out Innovation Awards
Agritechnica organizer Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agri-cultural Society has awarded 7 Gold Medals and 33 Silver Medals for leading innovation in agriculture. Agricultural companies worldwide submitted a total of 331 innovations to DLG, making this year’s submissions the highest number of submissions in twelve years. “This can be assessed as a clear indication that agricultural machinery manufacturers are starting an …
A Farm Progress Show “Guess Who’s Boots”
I almost completely forgot about this. This is an AgWired, “Guess Who’s Boots” post. Your job is to be the first person to correctly identify who is wearing these Red Wings and post your entry as a comment to this post. The winner will receive a pair of ZimmComm New Media retractable ear buds so we make it worth your …
Farm Progress Show Harvesting
It’s cool and breezy today but the sun is shining at the Farm Progress Show. There’s a big crowd out watching the corn harvest demo as different combine brands take turns doing a row. Laura was out there yesterday and shot a video clip of a Case IH unit. Farm Progress Show Photo Album AgWired coverage of the 2007 Farm …
Tour The New Holland Exhibit
So you say you’ve never been to a Farm Progress Show? Hopefully the 40 something posts from here on AgWired will give you a pretty good overview of what it’s like. Since New Holland is my sponsor I thought you might enjoy a walking tour through their exhibit. This is not meant to be a serious product demonstration so it …
AQHA Test Rides
Combines, tractors and 4-wheelers aren’t the only thing you can test drive here at the Farm Progress Show. You can also test drive a quarter horse thanks to the American Quarter Horse Association. I didn’t get to watch for long but it looked pretty sedate to me. No racing going on out here today. Just test rides like these and …