One-stop shopping for agricultural information: The National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) 2007 Convention – “A Rural Renaissance” – will be held Nov. 14-16 at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo. Trade talk is from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15th. Visit the NAFB site for a tentative agenda and registration information. Makhteshim Agan of …
New Portable Farm Podcast Recorder
Hey all you farm podcasters out there. Here’s a new digital recorder to drool over and plan to put in your tool kit. Marantz is finally coming out with a small form recorder. Finally! I got to demo this one at the Podcast & New Media Expo. It’s supposed to be coming out some time in November and I will …
Vote For AgWired – Hot Juicy Burgers
Some viral promotions catch my eye more than others. Take this one from Wendy’s. It’s not only cool but it’s about “Hot Juicy Burgers.” Something I had for lunch today in fact after a project meeting at the Missouri Beef Industry Council. Great background music too. This is also a call to action post. I would like some hot juicy …
Monsanto Suit Fails to Keep Syngenta Away from Agrisure
Syngenta will continue to use and sell Agrisure(R) GT (GA21 corn), despite the Monsanto Company‘s effort to block Syngenta’s right to sell the product. Monsanto took its plea of patent violation to the US Federal Courts, but couldn’t convince judges of any patent violation. The US Federal Appeals Court today ruled unanimously in favor of Syngenta Seeds, Inc., with respect …
Dr. Franz Fischler Will Chair IFAJ Congress 2008
We may have just concluded one IFAJ Congress but it’s time to look forward to next year. The man in charge is former EU Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Franz Fischler. He’s chairing IFAJ 2008 and I met him in Japan. I found Dr. Fischler to be very easy to speak with. He’s got me convinced that Cindy and I should …
Farmers Appointed to Serve on USSEC
In an effort to continue to increase U.S. soybean farmer profitability through international exports, the United States Soybean Export Council (USSEC) announced director appointments to its board at a recent meeting. The United Soybean Board (USB) appointed seven soybean checkoff farmer-leaders to the 19-member board, which was created in 2005 to strengthen relationships with foreign buyers and increase exports of …
World Dairy Expo Summary
Wow. It’s nice to be home. You can call this a catch up day and a much needed one. I’m going through cheese withdrawal right now. It’s always interesting (to me) to summarize our activity when blogging an event. So here’s some current totals for World Dairy Expo: 42 posts on World Dairy Diary, 10 on AgWired 24 episodes of …
Zimfo Bites
Washington, DC, American Farmland Trust (AFT) announces the availability of the Norm Berg Special Collection, an online archive of speeches and writings by and about Norm Berg. Berg is a living link to the beginnings of agricultural conservation in the United States. He worked for the first chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Soil Conservation Service (SCS), and then …
The Champions of World Dairy Expo
The 2007 World Dairy Expo is over and it ended with a great Parade of Champions. You can see pictures of all the action in my photo album. There’s 242 of them in there! Here’s your Supreme Champion, Indian Acres Mm Pistachio Pie, Ashley Elise Sears, So. Deerfield, MA . Jersey was the Reserve Supreme Champion, Llolyn Jude Griffen-et, Peter …