It looks like Cindy made it through the National JackPlot!™Finals in Las Vegas. I’ll be joining her there later on today after the BIVI Foundations Seminar I’m attending in Chicago. So here’s her post on who won: It got down to a Husker vs. Husker contest in the Final Four with the two Nebraska teams taking first and second place. …
PRRS Virus Control Seminar
The streets of Chicago have a little snow on them but it’s warm inside. The 2008 International PRRS Symposium has been taking place here. After the Symposium Boehringer Ingelheim is having a “Foundations of Area and Regional PRRS Virus Control” seminar. It takes place tomorrow. Some of the topics include; Managing Immunity, Exposure and Monitoring and Measurement. It all takes …
JackPlot!™ National Competition in Vegas
The JackPlot!™ National Competition officially got underway here at the Las Vegas Hilton yesterday sponsored by Winfield Solutions and CROPLAN GENETICS® seed. Friday’s first round allowed all 16 teams to play the game four times. Total scores will be accumulated and the Final Four will play for the championship later today. The winning team – both farmer and agronomist – …
Ag-Chem Operator of the Year Named
Kyle Jones, a 22-year custom applicator with Heartland Coop in Slater, Iowa, was named as the 2008 Ag-Chem Operator of the Year during this year’s Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) annual convention in Austin, Texas. Jones covers an average of 44,000 acres each year between fertilizing and spraying fields. He started in custom application because he enjoys the work, being in …
Mindy Teaches Online Journalism
If you’re a regular AgWired reader then you know I’ve pointed you to Mindy McAdams before. She’s a University of Florida Journalism Professor. I got to meet her for coffee yesterday to talk about “online journalism.” You definitely need to be reading her blog if you want to enhance your agricultural communications skills. She actually has some ag background from …
Zimfo Bytes
Effective, Oct. 1, 2008, ANIMART is responsible for all customer sales and service functions for Trim-Tec. Customers previously ordering through Trim-Tec can contact ANIMART to place their Trim-Tec trimming discs and other hoof care product orders. AGROTAIN International has announced that effective Nov. 28, 2008, final registration procedures were completed, clearing the way for use of its AGROTAIN technology in …
Financial Crisis Starting to Impact Rural Lending
The financial crisis that has gripped many of the urban areas of the country is now spreading out to the rural parts of America. And that is bad news (obviously)… and actually some good news. Attendees of the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. heard from a panel looking at the risks and challenges facing American …
Infrastructure Challenges for Rural America
Rural America’s infrastructure challenges cut to the heart of the six challenges outlined during this morning’s session of the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit being held in Washington, D.C. As you might remember from my earlier post, this morning, Farm Foundation Pres. Neil Conklin outlined the six major areas of challenges facing agriculture over the next 30 years: …
U.S. Farmland Being Lost at Alarming Rate
America is losing rural farm and forest land… some of it the best farmland in the world… at an alarming rate, the equivalent of losing the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont over a six-year period. Bob Wagner, the Senior Director for Farmland Protection Programs at the American Farmland Trust, spoke to attendees of the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture …
Drive Green Show Rolls On
It’s back on location time here in Gainesville, FL at GreenSouth Equipment and another Drive Green Utility Tractor Show stop. I wonder if all John Deere dealers have internet access this good. I love it. I just took a break from interviews and photos to get some posting done here and on the Drive Green Show Blog. I’ve started shooting …