I’m sitting in an ASABE Technical Session at the NAAA convention. BASF, our sponsor, is making two of them this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll be working with them in their trade show booth. So, let’s see how this iPhone app works.
NAAA Convention Underway
The National Agricultural Aviators Association Convention is officially underway after Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF, welcomed everyone at the kickoff breakfast. BASF is not only sponsoring our coverage of the meeting but is also a major sponsor once again of the convention. He told them that BASF is all about “keeping them in the air.” You can hear Gary’s remarks here: …
Zimfo Bytes
Trimble announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held Rawson Control Systems based in Oelwein, Iowa. Rawson’s products work in conjunction with the Trimble FieldManager Display. BASF announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Sorex Holdings Ltd. The transaction, which includes U.S.-based Whitmire Micro-Gen and U.K.-based Sorex Ltd., will give BASF an increased presence in the United States …
Multimedia Musings With DTN/The Progressive Farmer
While I was in Chicago for the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar I also got to stop in at the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. They’ve been a sponsor of AgWired and some of our collateral material like the ZimmNews and ZimmCast for a few months now. I found publisher, Adrian Blake, and we sat down for a discussion. I …
The JackPlot!™ Background
Cindy wrote a great post on the JackPlot!™Vegas.com website that provides the whole background of the project. Since this is a great example of creative agrimarketing and integrating the use of new media I just thought I’d share it: The JackPlot!™ game is a pretty unique way of reaching out to farmers beyond traditional advertising and trade show exhibiting. One …
The Women of DTN/The Progressive Farmer
After today’s BI PRRS Foundations Seminar I went upstairs at the Marriott to the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. After all they’re our sponsor. So before I left to the airport I visited with a number of my DTN friends including Adrian Blake, Publisher, who will be the subject of tomorrow’s ZimmCast. Here are the friendly faces of the …
Combination of Control Options Works Best on PRRS
The whole focus of today’s BI Foundations Seminar is on area and regional control of the PRRS virus. One of our presenters did some research on just how well applying control techniques works on a wide area basis. He’s Dr. Dale Polson. He presented findings from a project that applied the principals of control to a large production system over …
Vaccines in PRRS Control
The first presentation at the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar was on the “Impact of a modified-live PRRS vaccine intervention on a population of pigs infected with a heterologous isolates.” Presenting was Dr. J. P. Cano from Venezuala. His presentation was on the results of 2 different studies that showed an increase in clinical response to a virus challenge. He says, …
Time Is Right For PRRS Control
The man who is keeping the program running here today at the BI Foundations Seminar is Dr. Bob Morrison. He’s our emcee and right now as I post this, our panel leader. I spoke with him on our break to learn more about what BI is trying to accomplish. He says that by bringing together presentations on various aspects of …
BIVI Foundations Seminar Underway
The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar is underway and we’re already on the second speaker in the program today. At our break and after the meeting I’ll be conducting one-on-one interviews with each presenter to bring you up to date on the latest research in PRRS Virus Control. I’ve got a photo album started for your viewing pleasure already: Boehringer Ingelheim …