The United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff, through USB’s Biotechnology Initiative, announced a $500,000 investment in the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines, Iowa. This investment will be used to help create a kiosk in the new educational wing at the Hall of Laureates that will help educate the public on the value of biotechnology toward …
Trade Show Kicks Off at BlogWorld
The trade show kicked off this morning here at BlogWorld. I did a walk through video clip for you and for myself to decide which ones I want to go back and spend some time with. So if you’ve never seen what a bunch of geeks getting together looks like, now you’ll know. Video shot and uploaded with my iPhone. …
Blogosphere Is Very Healthy
Day two of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo is underway. We’re listing to Richard Jalichandra, Technorati, give a preview of this year’s State of the Blogosphere. It will be published next week. They surveyed bloggers this past year and he’s showing us some selected statistics. He started out by saying that the blogosphere is very healthy and contrary to …
World Food Day Good Time To Thank Farmers
After having Blog Action Day yesterday, today we have the 29th World Food Day. It’s a great time to thank a farmer for feeding you. And we can especially thank American farmers who lead the way in innovation, environmental stewardship and production. World Food Day, October 16th, is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action …
Zimfo Bytes
AgCareers.com is offering a Webinar on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at 11 a.m., “Coaching and Mentoring Strategies for Success.” AgVenture Frontier Hybrids has hired Charlie Maddux as the company’s sales and marketing manager. Eighty-five students from 11 universities competed for top honors in the 2009 Collegiate Weed Science Contest. Among the challenges: Identify more than two dozen weeds on sight. …
Bill Gates Defends Biotech Crops
At the World Food Prize Forum in Des Moines on Thursday, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke out in support of biotechnology to help feed the world. “We have to develop crops, including new inputs to go with them that can grow in a drought,” Gates said. “We have to have crops that can survive a flood, that can …
Blog Action Day Thoughts
It’s Blog Action Day. A day when apparently a whole lot of environmental extremists are joyfully proclaiming the end of life as we know it. Seems like a continuation of the Chicken Little theory. Take the Prime Minister of the UK’s blog post that says, “Climate change is the biggest threat to all our futures.” Maybe we should just all …
ZimmComm On Location at BlogWorld
How do you become new media experts? Participate in conferences like BlogWorld and New Media Expo. That’s why I’m here with Carly and Robert our webmaster. In fact, Robert is in this photo somewhere. The Mac in the front row on the left is mine. The opening session is underway featuring Laura Fitton, Pistachio Consulting. She’s challenging and inspiring us. …
World Food Prize Winner
Gebisa Ejeta, Purdue University Distinguished Professor of Agronomy plant breeder and geneticist, will receive the World Food Prize for his work in developing sorghum varieties resistant to drought and Striga, a parasitic weed common on the African continent. Because of Ejeta’s efforts, sorghum yields are significantly higher in many African nations. The World Food Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of …
Farm Foundation to Host 30-Year Challenge Conference
How do you feed, clothe and fuel a world population that is expected to climb to 9 billion people by 2040? That is the challenge the folks at the Farm Foundation set out about a year ago to address six major drivers impacting agriculture’s ability to provide food, feed, fiber and fuel to a growing world. Those six areas are: …