The Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition has named Dr. Harold F. Reetz, Jr. its new executive director. Ag Leader Technology, Inc. introduced its latest product offerings: the GPS 2500 all-in-one antenna and GNSS receiver. Trimble introduced the new AG GCS200 system for agricultural water management. BASF and Monsanto Company announced significant progress toward launching next-generation dicamba-based weed control systems for soybeans …
Vagueness of GIPSA Proposal Concerns Montana Producer
The basic problem with the proposed Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule as far as Montana cow-calf producer Bill Donald is concerned is that it is just too vague. “We can have intelligent people that read it and come up with a very different analysis of what it will or won’t do,” Bill says. “It’s so hard to …
Farm Foundation Forum Tackles Obesity, Food & Policy Issue
Our friends at Farm Foundation are offering another one of their free conversations on agricultural policy in this country … this time tackling the issue of the connection between obesity, food and the nation’s agricultural policy on Tuesday, November 9 from 9-11 am at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. : What’s the Connection? Presenters will be: * Jon …
Kip Cullers Shares Record Soybean Techniques
Kip Cullers recently set yet another world soybean yield record with 160.6 bushels per acre on his 2010 test fields. The question other growers have is “How does he do it?” Kip maintains that he has no big secrets and that any farmer can do what he does. He shares some of his techniques in two recent BASF Top Plots …
Dairy Business Driven By Social Media
At the beginning of the Alltech Global 500 I participated in a presentation on social media and I’ve been overhearing farmers talking about how to use it for their farm. During a discussion dinner last night I met a dairy farmer who has been using it to drive business on his farm. He’s a great example for all farmers. He’s …
New Strawberries Website
Strawberry lovers have a new website from the California Strawberry Commission. The new website is chock full of some of the best recipes from professional chefs and top food bloggers, along with colorful and mouth-watering food photography. Recipes can be shared via social networks, voted on, and printed. Additionally, consumers and bloggers can submit their own recipes to be featured …
Beef Producer Emphasizes Importance of Social Media To Ag
This year’s Alltech Global 500 includes a full program for beef producers. As we’ve said many times before, if you’re in the dairy business, you’re in the beef business. So, I spoke with one of the beef farmers here, Charles Miller. He’s a Kentucky cattleman so he didn’t have as far to go as many who are here from 29 …
House Ag Committee Dems Decimated
With debate on the next farm bill expected to begin in earnest next year, the make-up of the House Agriculture Committee will be significant – and after yesterday’s election there will be lots of new faces. While Chairman Collin Peterson was re-elected, he will no longer be chairman with the Republicans in control. What is really amazing is that 16 …
Zimfo Bytes
Pioneer Hi-Bred is adding 29 new soybean varieties to its 2011 lineup. Winfield Solutions, LLC is keeping the tradition of the Careers in Agriculture Scholarship Program, by announcing that scholarships worth $1,000 will be awarded to 10 high school seniors and 10 first- or second-year college students who demonstrate scholastic achievement, leadership in agriculture and a perceived ability to contribute …
Three Weeks Until GIPSA Comment Deadline
Livestock producers – and anyone in the meat industry, including those who eat it – have just three weeks left to make comments on the proposed Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule designed to “provide significant new protections for producers against unfair, fraudulent or retaliatory practices,” according to USDA. As of right now, nearly 13,800 comments have been …