Exhibitors and attendees can now make the most of their time at World Ag Expo using the Digital Show Grounds feature at WorldAgExpo.com. The Digital Show Grounds feature allows those planning to attend World Ag Expo to view a high-resolution map of the show grounds and map out their experience minute-by-minute with seminars, tours and stops at exhibits that apply …
Monsanto Sponsors Tweetups at Farm Bureau Meeting
Monsanto and the American Farm Bureau Federation will host two “tweetups” for Twitter users in the Monsanto booth during the AFBF annual meeting which starts Sunday in Seattle. The Tweetups will be held at the Exhibitor Showcase in the Monsanto Booth #210. First one is Sunday at 3 pm, then they will do it again on Monday at 8 am. …
Fluidigm Inks Deal With USDA
It looks like AgWired sponsor, Fluidigm Corporation, is making some new inroads into the agricultural sector with their announcement that “USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has purchased a Fluidigm microfluidic-based EP1™ System to help develop and validate focused 96- and 384-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) panels for testing America’s dairy and beef cattle. To ensure healthy cows and top quality product.” ARS …
Zimfo Bytes
AgraQuest Inc. announced the launch of SERENADE SOIL, the first soil fungicide based on its patented active ingredient Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713. Patrick Pelstring, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of National Wind, lays out the ways in which farmers can benefit economically from wind energy and demonstrates how unobtrusive wind turbines can be to farming. Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences, announced that …
AG CONNECT Expo in Action
AG CONNECT is in action as setup has been underway for a couple days now in Orlando, FL. You can see photos in the official ACE Flickr photo album. They’ve also been shooting some video to commemorate and document the first ag show for AEM. Here’s a video clip example from the official ACE YouTube channel. You can also follow …
New Year Brings Kixor to Control Weeds
Weeds are still the number one enemy of growers, costing some $95 billion a year in lost global food production. But this new year brings a new herbicide technology that kicks weed control up to a whole new level. BASF Kixor herbicide technology was approved for use just as the 2009 season was coming to an end, so growers can …
AgChat Tweetup at AG CONNECT Expo
Next week we’re going to have an “A” class tweetup. It’s an AGCO/AEM/AgChat Tweetup at AG CONNCECT Expo. Tweetups are a great opportunity to meet in person the people you communicate with via Twitter. After our tweetup anyone who wants to hang around can participate in an actual AgChat! Here’s the details: Date: Tuesday, January 12 Time: 6pm following opening …
Getting Ready for Farm Bureau in Seattle
I am really looking forward to heading for the blue skies of Seattle this weekend for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 91st annual meeting. I do have a special place in my heart for Farm Bureau, since that is where I started my life in agricultural communications. I interned at Florida Farm Bureau while I was still in college at …
Summary of U.S. Grains Council 2009 Corn Mission
For those of you who didn’t get to follow along with the U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission trip I went on last month I have prepared a slide show that will give you a pretty good overview of all we saw and learned. In the show you can hear from some of the key individuals I interviewed including the U.S. …
New Fuel Saving Technology from Case
Gary Truitt with Hoosier Ag Today recently published an article titled, “New Fuel Saving Technology from Case,” that describes new says Case IH is improving their red tractors to save fuel and innovate the agriculture industry. Check it out! Over the next few weeks, some of the biggest farm equipment trade shows will be taking place including the Ft. Wayne …