For some insight into the N-sight technique we heard from Brian Wade, AGROTAIN. He was on a panel discussion here at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference. He covers Europe, the middle east and Africa and is based in Switzerland. He comes from an Iowa farm too. Brian spoke about the N-sight technique: A visual and quantitative analysis of urea hydrolysis …
AgWired High On List of 50 Best Farm/Agriculture Blogs
It’s always nice to receive recognition for your work. Carol Brown of Online Degrees.net notified me last night that AgWired is on the list as well as our AgNewsWire.AgWired.com website. You can find their list of 50 Best Farm and Agriculture Blogs here. They have some other interesting lists that include 50 Best Beer Blogs and 100 Best College Sports …
Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions
One of our keynote speakers at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference was Ardell Halvorson, USDA-ARS. His focus was on the effect of EEF’s on nitrous oxide emissions from various cropping systems. He said that the work he’s been doing shows that the use of EEF’s has helped reduce nitrous oxide emissions in his area in Colorado. He says that this …
Controlled Release Big Element of Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers
There are people from universities as well as fertilizer companies attending the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference. These are the guys from The Scotts Company. I spoke with two of them on a break today. They’re Karl Shrom, Specialty Ag Marketing Manager and Keith Santner, Technical Services Manager. They both work in Scotts Professional Business Group. Many people are familiar with …
World Market For Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers
One of our keynote speakers at the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Conference is Sarah Landels, Managing Director, AgIndustries Research & Consulting, Inc. Her job was to talk about the world market for EEF’s. Let’s just call them EEF’s since that’s easier than Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers, okay? Sarah conducted a study on this subject a few years ago and presented information from …
Smarter Fertilizers
We seems to have a full house for The New Ag International Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizer Conference here in Miami. We’re now in the afternoon sessions. I’ve been conducting interviews and recording presentations and I’ll probably be posting them over the next week or so. You can see that AgWired is online in the back of the room. Yes, that’s my Mac …
Nicholson Kovac Selected By USGC For Public Relations Campaign
Nicholson Kovac has been selected by the U.S. Grains Council as its integrated marketing communications agency for their 2010 “Partners in Agriculture” international public relations campaign. Nicholson Kovac will provide public relations services, including media relations and event coordination, for a series of commemorative events that will take place in Japan in 2010. These events, part of the “Partners in …
Putting A New Face On Agriculture
The New Ag International Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizer Conference is underway. Our opening general session is underway. I will be posting from the session later. Before we got started though I spoke with John Hassell (right), Manager, Research and Agronomic Development, AGROTAIN, pictured here with Jeff Whetstine. AGROTAIN is one of the major sponsors of the conference and my coverage from here. …
Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizer Conference
Hello from sunny south Florida and the New Ag International Conference on Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizers. I’ll be here today and tomorrow courtesy of our sponsor AGROTAIN. In just a few minutes I’ll have a pre-conference meeting with the AGROTAIN folks and then the conference kicks off at 10am this morning. So we’ll be learning more about this relatively new class of …
ZimmComm Crew At Commodity Classic
Cindy just found a photo from Commodity Classic in Anaheim that didn’t make it into our photo album. Pictured l-r are Joanna Schroeder, one of our web editors, Robert, our web guru, yours truly and Cindy. Rob and I met at our hotel for several hours of face to face consultation time since he lives out on the west coast …