Trimble introduced its Web-based Agriculture Manager™ asset management system which combines GPS, machine sensors and automated wireless communications that allows farmers to more efficiently manage and operate large machinery fleets. The new Trimble Agriculture Manager system is designed to help farming operations, agriculture retailers and others automatically track their fleet’s precise GPS location, operating status and real-time productivity — all …
Agri-Culture: The Vietnamese Coffee Bean
I didn’t just see hills covered in coffee plants during my motorcycle excursion through central Vietnam. I also witnessed just how the locals dry their beans. No, there are no big factories or warehouses with some sort of huge electrical dryers as you might imagine. The Vietnamese way isn’t quite so fancy or complicated. The locals just lay some tarp …
Center for Global Food Issues Warns Farmers Can Either Produce Food or Fuel
Harry Siemens – The director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues warns society will ultimately have to decide whether farmers should be producing food or fuel. The U.S. government recently mandated the increased use of biodiesel and ethanol fuel. Center for Global Food issues director Dennis Avery estimates global farm output will have to double just to …
There Is No Greater Sacrifice
I know that you AgWired loyalists will remember Paul McKellips. He’s a co-founder of a great sounding organization that I thought I’d bring to your attention. It’s No Greater Sacrifice. I will make no excuses for my support of our military men and women and this sounds like a good organization to support. The men and women of the United …
Cali Orange Comeback
Last year, California orange growers sustained a crippling freeze and lost 40 percent of their crop. But, this year California citrus growers are reporting healthy, plentiful crops. Call it global warming or just a freak of nature, but last year’s crop of California oranges weathered a forty percent decrease because of a devastating freeze. Thanks to good planning and a …
New Talent At Colle McVoy
Colle McVoy has added some new talent. Todd Zerger has been hired as Interactive Associate Creative Director. He joins the agency from Periscope, where he worked onprojects for national consumer brands like Red Bull and Arctic Cat. Metin Sozen is the newest member of the Creative group and will perform duties as an Art Director. Sozen received his education at …
Another Farm Podcaster Recorder
I haven’t really heard much from Tascam lately until today. Those of us who grew up in broadcasting know them well though. Now they’ve got a new tool to make the farm podcaster drool. It’s the DR-1. I found out about it in a comment on Mindy McAdams blog, “Teaching Online Journalism.” Cindy, if you read this: “No, I am …
Colleen Callahan For Congress
Let’s root for Colleen for Congress. Thanks to a heads up from Cyndi Young we learned about a report in the Springfield Register. Colleen Callahan, a former agriculture reporter for Peoria radio and television stations, is asking the Democratic Party to be its nominee this fall for the 18th Congressional District. She said Thursday that numerous people have asked her …
Agri-Culture: Central Highlands of Vietnam
As I mentioned before, I haven’t quite made it back to the States yet after traveling to Germany in November (where I covered the Agritechnica farm equipment show in Hanover). For the last month and a half or so, my travels have taken me throughout much of Southeast Asia. I have already posted pics from when I stumbled upon a …
I Don’t Want To Be Green
I really hate to bring up the color green here even though it used to be my favorite color. But after reading on Meatingplace.com about a Greenpeace study that says that people should all become vegetarians in order to reduce global warming I can’t keep quiet. C’mon. They supposedly say according to the article (I don’t even want to waste …