Some busy travel days are coming up for ZimmComm. After tomorrow’s ethanol press conference at the Chicago Board of Trade I’ll be off to Burbank, CA for a little project involving this man, Jay Leno. I will have more on that for you by Tuesday afternoon or Wed. morning. Cindy will be taking pictures in a Missouri soybean field tomorrow …
National Poultry Judging Contest Winners
Pictured here is the Texas A&M University winning team in the National Poultry Judging Contest. You can find a complete list of winners here. The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association sponsored the 60th National Poultry Judging Contest held at Louisiana State University April 11-13. The contest works to increase student enrollment in poultry science. Collegiate teams from across the nation …
World Trade Organization Podcasting
It looks like the World Trade Organization is podcasting. Here’s a notice I received that pointed to it with this episode being a 17 minute press conference on the following. FARM TALKS CHAIR SEES REAL NEGOTIATION IN COMMENTS ON TEXT – Members’ comments on his “challenges paper” showed they were starting to negotiate the content rather than rejecting it, Ambassador …
Zimfo Bites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved a label change for Prowl H2O herbicide from BASF that allows growers to make applications to their citrus crops up to one day before harvest. The label change currently applies to all citrus-growing states except for California. The previous label prohibited application within 60 days of harvest. The Prowl H2O label now specifies …
More Rural Broadband Support From USDA
USDA is once again working to develop broadband internet services in rural areas of the country. Yesterday Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Thomas C. Dorr announced the publication of “new proposed rules designed to facilitate the further deployment of broadband services to rural communities nationwide.” It’s only a matter of time before no farmer or rural resident can complain …
Missouri River Flooding Along Katy Trail
Everyone’s watching to see how much flooding we get here in Missouri along the river. The Missouri River is up enough to close the Katy Trail. I still went out for a bike ride today and shot a little video. I didn’t have time to make it to the closed section but saw all I needed of the river up …
Corn Talking on Sky Radio
The National Corn Growers Association is using a new mechanism to help educate people about farming. It’s called Sky Radio. You can listen to it here (mp3 file). The next time you’re on an airplane, you may be in for a little “shop talk” about corn. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is taking its environmental/stewardship message to the “skyways” …
A Little Bull Shop
If you’re buying or selling breeding stock then I guess you need to do a little BullShop.com-ing. BullShop.com is a useful site to anyone buying or selling breeding stock. Over the past five years, it has grown into the largest, all breeds, breeding stock site serving the cow-calf industry. The site is presented in a state-by-state format making it easy …
Drug Awareness From the Progressive Agriculture Foundation
The Progressive Agriculture Foundation has a new component of it’s “Progressive Agricultural Safety Days” which will help raise awareness of the problems of meth in rural America. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive drug that is affecting every segment of society, especially rural America. To help educate rural children about the dangers of this drug and its manufacturing, which is often …
Sec. Johanns at World Agricultural Forum Congress
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns was on hand at the World Agricultural Forum Congress. Here he is getting interviewed by Mizzou Ag Journalism blogger Julia Shuck. His full comments are available online. Here’s an excerpt. Ladies and gentlemen, in the Doha talks, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to really have a profound impact on hunger and poverty in …