Iowa Corn is proud to announce 10 scholarships to be awarded through the Iowa Corn Future of Agriculture Scholarship program to high school seniors college students who are pursuing a degree in the 2011-12 school year. New leadership was elected by the members of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. America’s Heartland, the only nationally-distributed program …
Classic Rock Makes For Great Ending
The 2011 Commodity Classic had a rock and roll ending. The evening entertainment was the Little River Band. I think they played most of their hits and a couple of songs with a new twist. They sounded great and a little loud but then that’s what I remember when Cindy and I saw them a long time ago. The coolest …
AAEA Relaxes At Commodity Classic
The American Agricultural Editors Association held a reception for members attending this year’s Commodity Classic. Quite a few of the 126 members of the ag media attended including past president Karen Simon, Iowa Soybean Association. I spoke with Karen and Willie Vogt, Farm Progress Companies, about this summer’s Ag Media Summit. Karen is the Conference Chair and Willie is chairing …
Self Propelled Guardians From New Holland
The biggest machine in the New Holland booth at this year’s Commodity Classic is their Guardian Rear Boom Sprayer. There wasn’t enough space for it to “spread its wings” though. I talked with Tyler Roberts about the self propelled sprayers now being made by New Holland. Tyler says these machines are ready to get out in the field after being …
BASF Presents Kip Cullers Bobblehead
On behalf of a number of well-wishers in the agricultural world, BASF Crop Protection congratulated soybean yield world champion Kip Cullers during a special presentation at Commodity Classic in Tampa, Florida. Kip, a corn and soybean grower from Missouri, is a rock star in the ag world. He set yet another new world soybean production record in 2010 – for …
The Technical Side of AgHaven
The Chief Technology Officer for AgHaven is Pat McGinty. He’s responsible for the software that runs AgHaven. We talked about their agricultural search engine which is really tweaking the interest of a lot of people. He says that it allows for search results specific to agriculture. It’s not search results from other search engines. He says they crawl the web …
AgWired Joins BIVI at Swine Health Seminar in Phoenix
I’m getting settled in here in Phoenix for the 2011 Swine Health Seminar hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI). They couldn’t have picked a more beautiful location to host their event – Phoenix is sunny and beautiful today. I’m guessing everybody who flew in from a cold climate will be having some fun in the sun over the next …
Classic Commodity Group Unity
We’re talking commodity group unity here at Commodity Classic. Here’s the leaders of each of the participating groups, Bart Schott, NCGA, Alan Kemper, ASA, Gerald Simonsen, NAWG and Jerry McReynolds, NSP. Emceeing this morning’s general session once again was Mark Mayfield. He asked them each to answer the question, “What are you doing to enhance public trust and what efforts …
Ag Secretary Vilsack at Commodity Classic
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave the keynote address today to an audience of more than 4,500 farmers and commodity group representatives during the General Session of the 16th Annual Commodity Classic in Tampa, Florida. In his remarks, Vilsack commended American farmers, ranchers and producers for helping to lead the United States’ economic recovery by shattering agricultural trade records, creating jobs …
Zimfo Bytes
Ohio Brownfield Ag News radio network will be introduced in 2011. Monsanto Company will provide more than $1 million in sponsorships of National FFA Organization programs, awards, events, student scholarships and more this year. MGEX announced preliminary February monthly electronic trading volume of 190,639 contracts, eclipsing the previous record set in June 2010. John Melick, a fruit and vegetable farmer …