The crop protection and specialty pesticide industries are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Ag Container Recycling Council. The International Production & Processing Expo will serve as the umbrella name for the new U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, American Feed Industry Association, and American Meat Institute 2013 Expo in Atlanta. China’s future economic performance and the potential implications for U.S. …
Farm Bureau Members Donate to Hunger Program
The Farm Bureau “Harvest for All” program continued to grow in service to hungry Americans in 2011. The farm and ranch families of Farm Bureau last year raised more than $556,273 and donated more than 10 million pounds of food to the program operated through Feeding America, a total of nearly 13 million meals. In addition, farmers and ranchers tallied …
Commodity Classic Cute Baby Blogging
Commodity Classic is a family affair in more ways than one. I think I saw more cute babies this year than ever. This was a photo I couldn’t resist. You can find others in our online photo album too. It’s time for the ZimmComm team to take a break since the media room is closing and I think we’re last …
What’s New With Wheat
Caught up with the execs of the National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates at the 2012 Commodity Classic to find out what’s new with wheat. What’s really new for NAWG is a brand new scholarship program with BASF just announced at the Classic, and CEO Dana Peterson says they are happy about the scholarship but sad about …
NAMA AAEA Get Together At Commodity Classic
One of our sponsors here at Commodity Classic, BASF, gets involved in supporting the event in so many ways. One of them is to sponsor this year’s combined American Agricultural Editors Association and National Agri-Marketing Association reception. Pictured (l-r) Beth Burgy, Broadhead and NAMA President; Nadine Keutzer, BASF; Amy Ogburn, Padilla Speer Beardsley and Greg Horstmeier, DTN/The Progressive Farmer and …
NCGA Has Missouri Corn Membership Machine
Missouri Corn Growers president Billy Thiel is a membership machine for the National Corn Growers Association. During the NCGA Awards banquet at the 2012 Commodity Classic, Billy became the 17th member of the Walter Goeppinger Recruiter Hall of Fame, an honor which comes with a classy new blazer. Billy led the way in recruiting new members for the NCGA in …
Osborn Barr Honors John Becherer
The United Soybean Board’s CEO, John Becherer, got a little bit of love from everyone attending the Osborn Barr reception at Commodity Classic. John is receiving this year’s National Agri-Marketing Association Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award which will be officially presented to him during next month’s Agri-Marketing Conference in Kansas City. However, Osborn Barr which has worked with USB …
BASF Promotes Applicator Training
Fighting herbicide resistant weeds depends as much on the proper application techniques and equipment as it does on using the right products. BASF Crop Protection has partnered with application technology specialist Dr. Bob Wolf, retired Professor Emeritus of Kansas State University, to help growers get the most out of their pesticides by using best application practices with the On Target …
Classic Farm Report
The general session of the Commodity Classic is not complete without a farm report containing market prices and the latest news. That was done once again this year by the President of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. This year that’s Tom Steever, Brownfield Ag News. BTW. Session emcee Mark Mayfield remarked afterward that the farm reporter is not supposed …
Tornado Warning at Commodity Classic
We just got the All Clear on a tornado warning that happened at about 3:45pm. I was in the trade show area when it happened. I certainly hope the tornado that was sighted caused no damage or injuries. We’ve got some severe weather still on the outlook for later today too. Everyone got herded into a very large and empty …