After a long history of futures and options open outcry trading, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is closing its trading pits effective December 19, 2008. The decision to make the transition to exclusively electronic trading was unanimously approved by the MGEX Board of Directors and is pending MGEX ownership approval. According to a MGEX release, the decision comes after an exhaustive …
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E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University, and 4-H Alumnus, has been elected to National 4-H Council’s Board of Trustees. The Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) has unveiled a new Web site as the next step of an ongoing campaign to promote independent seed companies. The site features a “Members Only” section, as well as a search function to …
Road Birds
I told you I would be posting lightly for a couple days. It’s pretty wet in South Dakota with some early morning fog. However, if you look down the gravel road at our hunting lodge you can see some pheasants having a little get together out on the road. I just thought you might enjoy the fact that I am …
Here’s What’s Wrong with the Canadian Wheat Board’s Monopoly
Siemens Says – This is why Farmers Must Vote to elect Marketing Choice candidates in the upcoming CWB board directors’ elections because Freedom of the Press is at stake. . The Canadian Wheat Board has refused my registration on two CWB media events, effectively banning me from covering, reporting, and commenting on the Wheat Board’s activities from a point of view …
Mystic Blogging Experience
This is a heads up AgWired fans that I’ll be sort of off the grid for a few days starting tomorrow. Even the agriblogger has to go far afield to recharge his batteries. It’s just that time of year. However, I’ll still be connecting periodically and I couldn’t go somewhere without blogging it. So, posting will be light for a …
Badger NAMA Awards Tree
The Badger NAMA chapter must have won a lot of awards to have this many leaves on their “tree.” The Badger National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Chapter recently donated $500 to the building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison NAMA Awards Tree, a display that recognizes the accomplishments of the student chapter over the past 30 years. “Since its accreditation in 1978, …
Get Your Gala On
If you haven’t made your reservation for this year’s Livestock Publications Council Royal Gala then what are you waiting for? There is still time to confirm your plans for the 5th annual LPC Royal Gala which will be held next Friday, October 31, in Kansas City at the American Royal headquarters. This fundraiser is designed to celebrate and honor this …
Write About a Future In Cotton
Do you have a future in cotton? Want to have one? Then write an essay and enter this Deltapine scholarship program. The future of the U.S. cotton industry continues to rely on new talents and fresh perspectives. To keep bright young minds involved in cotton, Monsanto is creating the Deltapine Class of 09 scholarship program. The program will award nine …
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Novartis Animal Health US, Inc. sponsored an interactive quiz at the recent 2008 American Association of Bovine Practitioners Annual Convention. This activity resulted in donations of $2,470 to the AABP Amstutz Scholarship Fund and $500 to the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s student AABP Chapter. Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine took top honors. The 17th annual …
Grain Power For Your Life
I don’t know about you but I like corn in all its various forms, fuel for my body or fuel for my car. Here’s some new research that shows just how healthy the milled food products can be. Someone please get me a bowl of grits! Corn – a Grain For Life. New research just published in the October issue …