During the AG CONNECT Expo last week, I spoke with Nathan Faleide, sales and marketing for Satshot. The company offers a GIS online system for the agricultural industry that handles and manages satellite imagery and other data for use in variable rate technology with a fertilization, seed and chemical all-in-one online mapping system. The system can be managed from anywhere …
Brazil Shows Strong Presence During AG CONNECT Expo
I had a chance to sit down with Alida Bellandi, the Director of International Marketing for the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers (ABIMAQ) during the AG CONNECT Expo. Bellandi’s organization was here to participate in the AgriEvolution Forum, a forum that is promoting a dialogue between the associations of manufacturing around the world. The first forum was in …
Kinze Launches ASD Feature During AG CONNECT
Row crop growers were introduced to some new technology from Kinze Manufacturing during the AG CONNECT Expo: the 3800 Forward Folding and 3660 Twin-Line® planters with Air Seed Delivery (ASD). The ASD is offered in different models and many different configurations and Laura Blomme, Training Coordinator with Kinze, noted that one really exciting feature with the ASD package is the …
AgWired is Top Agriculture Blog in PostRank Analytics
PostRank Topblogs 2009 – #2 in Agriculture PostRank Analytics says, “Over 80% of the engagement with your content doesn’t happen on your blog.” This is the hardest thing for today’s media buyers and marketing/communications people to understand. When it comes to social networking and influence the blog is often just the hub of the wheel while most of the activity …
AG CONNECT Expo Wrapup
The inaugural AG CONNECT Expo is “in the books.” It was a good one too. I believe the show was very professionally done and everything went smooth. Attendees and exhibitors have echoed those comments when I’ve spoken with them. To wrap things up I spoke to Charlie O’Brien, VP Ag Services for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. He says that …
Canadian Ag Minister Talks COOL During AG CONNECT
Canadian Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, was the featured speaker today during the State Agriculture and Rural Leaders’ Annual Legislative Agriculture Chairs Summit Luncheon during the AG CONNECT Expo. While Ritz focused on ag initiatives in Canada and the agricultural and trade relationships and programs between Canada and the U.S., the issue that got many fired up in the audience …
Case IH Floor Show at AG CONNECT Expo
The exhibitors at AG CONNECT Expo really invested a lot in their presentations and none more than Case IH in my opinion. I watched a couple of their floor shows and thought you might enjoy a look at one of them. Centered in the exhibit is a whole command console to control lights and sound. It really is well done …
Catching Up With Trimble at AG CONNECT Expo
When Trimble launches a new product it’s available worldwide and next week Trimble will be launching several new products. I tried to coerce Guillermo Perez-Iturbe, the regional manager for Latin America, to give me a scoop during the AG CONNECT Expo, but he held out. Good for Trimble – bad for me. Today, the company has a suite of precision …
AgDay TV Taping Draws Large Crowd at Ag CONNECT Expo
If you’re in agriculture, then you know Al Pell, the host of AgDay TV. Al and his crew were on hand during the AG CONNECT Expo and while there, taped a show. In the background – a standing room only crowd. Chip Flory, with Pro Farmer was the featured guest. The topic of discussion was to be crop reports but …
Zimfo Bytes
AgriLabs will donate $1,500 to be awarded as scholarships to deserving youth by participating state cattle association affiliates. Selection of the participating organizations will be made during the National Cattleman’s Beef Association Convention. U.S. sheep producers now have access to an approved reproductive management tool, EAZI-BREED CIDR Sheep Inserts from Pfizer Animal Health. Joe Osborn has elected to retire after …