Trimble announced it has acquired privately-held NTech Industries. The PrecisionAg Institute has announced the recipients of the 2009 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence. This is the third annual presentation of these awards, designed to celebrate the people and programs that have helped agriculture realize the full benefits of technology to improve agronomy, efficiency, and stewardship in crop production. Click here for …
Live Country Music Delayed
This evening the CMA Music Festival had a storm issue at the LP Field concert. The second act was Reba McEntire and she was just getting started when they had to clear the field. We got to see Brooks & Dunn and then a couple songs by Reba. It was very disappointing and I’m sure most fans stayed underneath the …
Festival Race a Winning Promotion For New Holland
In this week’s program we’re going to hear all about how well the New Holland Celebrity Tractor Race, hosted by Michael Peterson, is working for the company. I sat down with Gene Hemphill, New Holland Public Affairs, and we talked about this project that we’ve been involved with for 4 years now. Gene says he and Michael took the idea …
CMA Music Festival Parade
Michael Peterson recruited Carly to ride on in the parade with him here at the CMA Music Festival. So she hopped on and joined the FFA members who rode in the sunshine as we kicked off another country music extravaganza. While Carly was riding, Cindy was multitasking in the back. Here in the picture you can see her shooting with …
Boehringer Ingelheim Focused on PRRS
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a major focus for Boehringer Ingelheim, which sponsored a press conference at the recent World Pork Expo to talk about some of the latest in PRRS-control strategies. Dr. Reid Phillips, with BI’s Swine Enteric Technical Services, says they strive to encourage collaborative research in the field and continue to evaluate their modified live …
FFA at CMA
New Holland and Michael Peterson showed their support for the FFA here at the CMA Music Festival once again. The officers of the Westmoreland FFA chapter rode with Michael in the kickoff parade. Before we got started I interviewed them. They’re north of Nashville about 45 minutes. They were pretty excited to ride along with Michael behind a new New …
Michael Peterson Parades at CMA Music Festival
The CMA Music Festival is underway in Nashville, TN. My good friend Michael Peterson was a crowd pleaser in the opening parade this afternoon. He and I found a cool place for an interview after the parade. Michael and I agree that it seems like there are even more people here than last year. It was a big crowd lining …
Zimfo Bytes
McGill University and Becker Underwood have signed a commercial licensing agreement granting Becker Underwood exclusive rights to patented nitrogen-fixing technology developed by a team of McGill researchers. A new report by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) shows direct-to-consumer farm marketing in the United States is growing faster than total agricultural sales—the two categories increased 104.7 percent and 47.6 percent, …
Tractor Racing in Nashville at Fan Fair
AgWired goes country this week at the 2009 Country Music Association’s annual summer Music Fest, commonly known as Fan Fair. Once again we’re sponsored by New Holland to cover their activities which culminate on Sunday with the Michael Peterson/New Holland Celebrity Tractor Race. You’ll be able to watch live video of the race, announced by AgriTalk’s Mike Adams, here via …
Novus International Partners With Chr. Hansen
NOVUS International signed an agreement last week at World Pork Expo with Chr. Hansen to provide the direct fed microbial BioPlus 2B® for swine producers in the United States. BioPlus 2B® contains two strains of Bacillus (Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis). These Bacillus strains can improve the intestinal microbial balance of swine. Safety studies have proven that BioPlus 2B® strains …