The Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame is a new program intended to honor the most innovative and influential individuals in the cattle-feeding business. The hall announced its 2010 inductees — the late Kenny Monfort of Colorado and H.C. (Ladd) Hitch of Hitch Enterprises based in Oklahoma. Erin Snyder of Bozeman, Mont., has been selected as the recipient of the $1,500 …
Canal To The Gulf
It’s a beautiful day in the Sunshine State and hopefully will be a calm one on the Gulf of Mexico. I’m taking a day for a little fishing before things get busy on the agriblogging highway which will start in Panama City tomorrow at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. This is the view from the deck here of a little …
Leica Shows Off New mojoMINI at Precision Ag Conference
The trade show is always one of the really cool things about conferences, and I found a pretty neat little item over at the Leica Geosystems booth in the exhibitor’s hall. Leica is introducing its new mojoMINI, an on-the-go guidance system for in the field and on the road. Daryl Southard, an inside sales rep for Leica, gave me a …
Precision Ag Conference Attendees Elect First ISPA Officers
The folks attending the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) have elected the first officers for the International Society of Precision Agriculture. During the opening day’s luncheon, attendees used remote controls (fitting for a group of folks into precision things!) to choose from the nominees for the four posts. The winners are: ISPA President: Dr. Raj Khosla, Professor of …
Precision Ag Conference Attendees Hear: There’s No Magic Bullet
This morning’s opening session of the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) was certainly a good one, as attendees heard that while the world’s farmers have increased the rate of growth of the food they produce, the current increase doesn’t match the rise in the human population and its rising incomes expected by the year 2050 when it’s expected …
Farm American Chevrolet on Track
The Farm American Chevrolet will be on track at the Brickyard 400 Sprint Cup race in Indianapolis on Sunday. You may recall the unveiling of this concept car by Furniture Row Racing last year at the American Farm Bureau Federation public relations conference. It was also on display at the 2010 National Agri-Marketing Conference in Kansas City. On Sunday, Regan …
When I Think Of Home…
On a work tour of Canada a few years back, we drove the countryside and it was filled with fields of yellow…canola. To the local Canadian attendees, it was boring, the usual, and what they really wanted to see were the test plots of field corn. Corn? But I guess I can’t blame them. There’s something about a beautiful field …
Leica Making Contacts with Old and New Friends at ICPA
One of the nicest things about coming to a conference such as the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) is meeting new friends here. Among some of the folks I’ve met are the good people at Leica Geosystems, who are sponsoring coverage of this year’s event. In the exhibitor hall, I met up with Harlan Little, Leica’s North American …
Southern Peanut Growers Conference This Week
ZimmComm will be blogging the Southern Peanut Growers Conference once again this year in Panama City Beach, FL. Cindy has “owned” this job for the last couple years but not this year. I get the tough duty of heading to my home state to blog about all things peanuts. I’m taking a slight detour along the way to a Gulf …
Get Social With AgLoop
There’s a new social network for agriculture and they want you to get in the loop, the AgLoop. Zachary Brown may still be in college but he’s already got a full time job going thanks to his Dad, James Brown. Together they started Hay Talk a couple of years ago and it has done so well that they’ve branched out …