It looks like the Android app market is beginning to see some agricultural applications. PureSense Environmental Inc. announced today that its Irrigation Manager(TM) Android application is now available through the Android Market. The PureSense app allows growers to monitor their real-time field conditions and irrigation activity from their Android phones. Monitoring stations placed throughout growers’ fields send data through the …
BIVI Swine Health Seminar
Do you know what this image means? If not, you’re not alone. Let’s just say it has to do with Boehringer Ingelheim and pigs. We’ll find out more this weekend when I attend the BIVI Swine Health Seminar in St. Paul, MN. It’s going to take place on Saturday afternoon. We’ll find out together online.
Husker Harvest Days
Speaking of farm shows. How about Husker Harvest Days? It’s going on now in Grand Island, NE. This is a show I haven’t been to in years but always enjoyed. Check out their interactive map. After a delayed start to Day 2 the crowds filled the Husker Harvest Show site west of Grand Island providing exhibitors a strong day. The …
Big Iron Farm & Ranch Shows Draws International Crowd
So many farm shows, so little time. I wish we could be at all of them. One of them taking place this week is the Big Iron Farm & Ranch Show in West Fargo, ND. Pictured are a couple of the guys from the Red River Farm Network. The show runs through today and has a significant international attendance. North …
Book Review – The Food Wars
This week I read a book about the ongoing discussions regarding the causes of the food crisis. It should come as no surprise that several of the main reasons the globe is in the midst of a food crisis, according to a The Food Wars author Walden Bello, are commodity speculation, biofuels, increased demand for food in Asia brought on …
24th Annual Georgia Peanut Tour
The Georgia Peanut Tour got started today. You can get a detailed overview of where they’re going from Amanda Smith, chairman of the Georgia Peanut Tour Committee. Follow along on the blog, Twitter and Facebook. The 24th Annual Georgia Peanut Tour kicked off this week in Americus, Ga., with a Hot Topics Seminar at the Sumter County Extension Service Office. …
Distillers Grains Export Opportunities
Distillers grains exports are climbing to new heights. Exports of the ethanol co-product distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) hit a new record in July of 886,300 metric tons – which is more than was exported in the entire year in 2004. Total exports this year so far are 4.95 million metric tons, getting close to the total last year …
Support NAFB Foundation
Here’s a call out for support of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Foundation. You can donate an item to the annual auction at the NAFB Convention or just send cash! Generous donations in past years have helped provide financial support and educational opportunities for young people in pursuit of careers in agricultural communications. Each year, six college students – …
Urban Wheat Field
If you can’t take policy makers to the field then take the field to the policy makers. On Thursday, September 23rd and Friday, September 24th a live wheat field, approximately one quarter of an acre in size, will sprout from the streets of the nation’s capital in an effort to promote food literacy via farm-to-fork wheat education. The North Dakota …
Ethanol is Right Here, Right Now
There are so many reasons to support American energy independence it sometimes amazes me how many special interest groups or ill informed people oppose it. Sure, we work with groups like the Renewable Fuels Association but we’d support the industry and ethanol anyway. It’s good to see that RFA will make sure lawmakers keep ethanol in mind when they get …