Football great Terry Bradshaw encouraged thousands of farmers and ranchers to keep smiling during an address at the 91st American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting on Monday. Bradshaw talked about his horses and owning 58 head of Angus cattle that he bought in Kansas. “I had 60 but cougars got two of them,” he said. Then he talked about his …
AG CONNECT Expo About To Go Live
It’s almost time for the official start of the first ever AG CONNECT Expo. It’s historic and it’s going to be fun. The big banners are now hanging outside the Orange County Convention Center welcoming attendees who will be coming from all over the world. The ceremonies will kick off tomorrow afternoon and I’ll be on the scene live bringing …
Farmers Exchange Ideas
American Farm Bureau Federation 91st Annual Meeting Photo Album An Illinois farmer won the top prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation 91st annual meeting on Monday. Paul Berbaum of Champaign (pictured here with his wife Shirley) came up with the “Auger Dolly” to easily move an auger from place to place. As the …
National Beef Ambassadors in Action
My favorite youth agriculture organization, the National Beef Ambassador Program (NBAP), is busy working on behalf of America’s beef cattle producers. Their latest efforts took them to Wooster, OH where they visited the Certified Angus Beef (CAB) headquarters to take part in their Building Blocks for Success Seminar. As the NBAP Team learned about successful marketing programs, grassroots consumer education …
Outlook For Ag Equipment Industry
Agrievolution 2010 is a very international event. We’ve got participants and presentations from countries like Russia, Brazil, Venuzuela and China. I met one of our delegates, Massimo Goldoni, President, UNACOMA, the Italian equipment manufacturers association, who attended the first Agrievolution in Rome in 2008. Massimo says that back in 2008 they thought it would be helpful to pull together the …
AGCO Supports Agrievolution at AG CONNECT Expo
Attending today’s Agrievolution program is Martin Richenhagen, President/CEO, AGCO. I had the opportunity to talk with him about this new ag show – AG CONNECT Expo. AGCO is supporting the show in a big way. Martin says says that although the U.S. is one of the biggest countries in farming, the biggest farm shows are in Europe and they wanted …
An Agrievolution Taking Place in Orlando
One of the co-located events taking place with AG CONNECT EXPO is Agrievolution. Opening up the program this morning is Doug DeVries, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Services – Agriculture and Turf Division, John Deere. I spoke with him just prior to the start of the program. Doug is pictured on the right with Rusty Fowler, Krone NA and Martin …
Zimfo Bytes
NMPF announced a reorganization of its staff to achieve the best possible results in the year ahead. Keith H. Heffernan will serve as senior vice president of operations and industry relations of the Washington, D.C., based U.S. Grains Council. Farmers National Company is pleased to announce that Rod Ferguson, Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) of Argenta, Ill., has been named the …
AFBF President Meets the Press
In his annual press conference, American Farm Bureau Federation president Bob Stallman answered questions from reporters about every thing from climate change and animal rights to crop insurance and estate taxes. With opposition to cap and trade legislation in Congress a major focus at the meeting, Stallman was asked what kind of climate change legislation he would support. “A lot …
Farm Bureau Petition: “Don’t CAP Our Future”
Hundreds of Farm Bureau members were signing their names to a banner telling Congress “Don’t CAP Our Future” at the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) annual meeting in Seattle Sunday on the trade show floor. American Farm Bureau has been collecting signatures on a petition opposing the Climate Change bill being considered by Congress that they believe will create an …