I saw one of these bad boys at the POET Project LIBERTY field day recently although I didn’t get to speak with anyone at Vermeer about it. It is the Vermeer CCX770 Cob Harvester, a wagon-style corn cob collection system which enables farmers to harvest corn and cobs simultaneously. The Vermeer CCX770 Cob Harvester is designed to tow immediately behind …
Secretary Schafer at Cellulosic Summit
This may have been the last time I will have the chance to interview the current Secretary of Agriculture – I think this is about the 10th secretary I have been able to report on during my career in ag communications! Anyway – Secretary Schafer was here at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit in south Florida Wednesday and had a small …
Dueling Press Conferences on the Road
Chuck is out hunting with no internet access, I am on location covering the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit and two groups decide to have dueling telephone press conferences. What’s a blogger to do? What I did was put my cell phone on speaker and record it on to my mini Marantz. Worked out pretty well too – not all broadcast quality, …
View At Sunset
I know posting has been light but sometimes the agriblogger has to take a few days off. I’ll be back on the grid by Wednesday evening and ZimmComm will have some exciting news by the end of the week. Cindy is attending the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit in south Florida this week and may have some news for you from there. …
Preliminary Research Suggests Bright Future for Solid Manure Injection
Harry Siemens / Farmscape – Research conducted by the University Saskatchewan suggests a promising future for solid and semi-solid livestock manure fertilizer injection technology. Researchers with the university’s Department of Crop Science have released preliminary results of a three year study examining the agronomic and environmental implications of solid manure injection. The study, which began in the spring of 2007, …
Zimfo Bytes
A Farm Foundation conference on Dec. 4, part of the Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in D.C., will examine the challenges agriculture and the food system face in providing food, fiber and fuel to a growing world over the next 30 years. Highlighting the conference will be release of a new Farm Foundation report, Agriculture’s Strategic Role: Feeding and Fueling …
NAMA Professional Development Award Winners
At the NAMA Trends in Agriculture conference several professional agrimarketers were honored and once again this year, Paulsen AgriBranding captured comments from the honorees. NAMA honored three members for professional development during its Wednesday luncheon. Honored in marketing communications was Paul Redhage, FMC Communications Manager; in Public Relations, Beth Anderson, Charleston Orwig; and in sales, Vernon Benes of Beck Ag. …
NAFB Auction Supports Foundation
The NAFB Foundation auction to support scholarships has been an annual event since back in the days when I was on the Foundation board – long time ago! Last night’s auction included the usual top shelf items, such as a NASCAR Kansas City race package donated by Pioneer, the New Holland Boomer Pink Pedal tractor, NAFB collectible tractors, and several …
Lindsay Hill Elected NAFB VP
We are very pleased to report that our good friend Lindsay Hill of AdVance, ABN and Buckeye Ag Radio Network has been elected as vice president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. She is pictured here with her very proud husband and partner Andy Vance shortly after the election took place. Lindsay is a 10-year veteran of agricultural media …
NAFB Trade Talk Hectic As Usual
I think we need a couple days to get all of the Trade Talking done that we’d like to do! Cindy and I did a lot of interviews today and we’ll be using them in the coming weeks. I got to meet with one of my musical heroes this morning during the NAFB Trade Talk session. He was hanging out …