Alpharma Student Video Contest Winners

Chuck Zimmerman

The winning video in the Alpharma Student Video Contest was produced by the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’ll try to update this post with a video embed once it’s on YouTube. Alpharma Inc., Animal Health has announced that students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the $5,000 grand prize winner of the 2008 Alpharma Student Video Contest. Second …

Agribusiness, University

Trucking On Down The Farm Podcast Highway

Chuck Zimmerman

The year is trucking right along and in this week’s program we keep on trucking with ZimmCast #200. To keep with the trucking theme the program has an interview with Ron Lang, John Deere, who is the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show driver. I’m going a regular feature for the project called the Truck Driver’s Diary and just updated it …

Audio, John Deere, ZimmCast

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

Eco friendliness is “in” when it comes to Christmas/New Year’s cards. Take this one from KL Energy. In our ongoing efforts to be environmentally responsible, KL Energy Corporation is electronically sending our holiday cards this year (please see attached). Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in …

Ethanol

Get Connected at AG CONNECT

Melissa Sandfort

Agrievolution, a gathering of high ranking international agriculture industry leaders and equipment associations from around the world, will collocate its next meeting with the new agriculture trade show, AG CONNECT Expo, scheduled for Jan. 13-15, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. The summit will be held Jan. 11-12, 2010. The show will feature international exhibit pavilions highlighting …

Events

Zimfo Bytes

Melissa Sandfort

MANA Crop Protection introduces Pyrimax 3.2SL cotton herbicide for the 2009 season to provide broad-spectrum control of tough weeds, including those resistant to glyphosate. AgraQuest Inc., announced that it has received EPA registration for its new insecticide REQUIEM. REQUIEM, which has demonstrated control of whiteflies, aphids, mites, thrips and other pests in more than 600 trials and grower demos, is …

Zimfo Bytes

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

A holiday favorite of mine is the Carol of the Chins. I’ve already had them sing The First Noel and Silent Night. It is our pleasure to present the Carol of the Chins, our interactive holiday gift to you. Happy Holidays! They’re here to sing all your holiday favorites. Give them a try! Brought to you by Sundog.

Agencies

No Global Warming in Midwest

Chuck Zimmerman

It is more than a little cold here in mid Missouri and all you have to do is look at the river to see how much. The ice is forming and by tomorrow I’ll bet the river is frozen all the way across. I’m glad I wasn’t at the KC Chiefs game today! The sun was shining here today but …

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Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

What list of holiday greetings would be complete without an Elf Yourself? This one is from the Mark Jewell Family. Merry Christmas to all! As you can tell, we’ve all been having a bit too much fun this year! Blessings to you in 2009!

Agribusiness

Happy Holidays

Chuck Zimmerman

It’s Happy Holidays from The Hondo Group. Nicely done. If you watch the card online you’ll find out that they’ve “purchased enough carbon credits to offset your carbon footprint.” Uh. Okay, I guess. That’s nice. I kind of liked my carbon footprint though. I worked hard at it!

Agencies

New Farm Podcaster Tools

Chuck Zimmerman

It’s time to take an agriblogging break. But first I thought I’d let you farm podcasters know about a couple new products you might want to check out. First up is the Incipio Lloyd Microphone for iPod Nano. Lloyd allows you to use your nano 4G as a personal assistant and note taker by unlocking the powerful voice recording capabilities …

Equipment, Podcasts