No matter where a grower farms, glyphosate resistant weeds are threatening his profitability. With confirmed glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth (Palmer pigweed) in the South and waterhemp and giant ragweed resistance in the Midwest, growers are looking for control options. RFD-TV Live! with Syngenta Crop Protection will present two programs on this topic. During each hour-long, live call-in show, a panel of …
New Specialty Tractors From John Deere
John Deere has announced a new line of specialty tractors. Interesting, because I just recently was talking to a tractor dealer who was saying that he sees a real need for more attention to specialty crop producers from the manufacturers. To better meet the needs of orchards, vineyards, nurseries and greenhouse operations, John Deere introduces a new line of specialty …
Ag Media at Biodiesel Conference
There are actually a good number of ag journalists here at the National Biodiesel Conference this year – more than usual. Of course, we had our good friends from AgriTalk, seen here interviewing NBB CEO Joe Jobe for Monday’s show. They did a show Tuesday also and then took off to head for Reno for the Cattlemen’s meeting. Other farm …
Cattle Industry Convention Preview
Things were very relaxed here in Reno last night so I sat down with Beef Board CEO, Tom Ramey (l), Cheri Delgado, Senior Executive Assistant and Executive Dir. of Communications, Lynn Heinze to get a preview of what will be going on. Tom says that this is the beginning of the annual planning cycle for the Beef Board. He says …
Cattle Convention News Center
Joe Schuele and Grace Webb, NCBA, say hello from the news center at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center where the Cattle Industry Convention is getting kicked off. I really didn’t expect anyone to be there working early this morning but there they were with the media room all set up and hot food and coffee. It did start out at a …
Blogging With Daryl in Orlando
This is the first time since we’ve been biodiesel blogging that I can’t be at the National Biodiesel Conference but Cindy and John are there and boy have they been posting some content. You can see posts like this one on the National Biodiesel Conference Blog. Green actress and “sustainable summiteer” Daryl Hannah has been a part of every National …
Arriving In Reno
On the road again. Here’s Oakland Airport on the way to Reno. It was a beautiful day for flying. On the way out there were plenty of cowboy hats on the plane. The Cattle Industry Convention is a multi-organizational meeting and I’m not even going to try to cover all of it. The meeting will feature joint and individual meetings …
Podcast Audience Growing
There’s a new report out from eMarketer that shows a growing podcast audience. You can purchase the complete report from this link. Hopefully those of you who are podcasting or thinking about it will find this helpful. They don’t measure farmers (who does?) but you can pretty much expect that farmers track along with the general public – my opinion …
Zimfo Bytes
PureSense, recently named a Top 10 New Product by World Ag Expo, has unveiled an upgrade to its Irrigation Manager software. The upgraded Irrigation Manager software takes a cost-saving and money-making product one step further by making the system even easier to use with more powerful analysis in the background. Improvements include access to information simply by dragging the pointer …
Commenting On Corn
Hello on Super Bowl Sunday. I’m trying to get ready to hit the road to Reno early in the morning but am planning on cooking some brats and watching the annual big game in high def. This week you can listen in on a discussion I had last week with Mimi Ricketts, Communications Director for the National Corn Growers Association. …