Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “Should we sit down with HSUS in ‘common cause’?” The results of this poll are skewed due to the hacking by HSUS. In the end, the poll read that eighty one percent voted Definitely, fifteen percent said Never, and four percent thought we Should in some cases. The attempt to affect our poll reflects …
Activists Fail to Disrupt AgChat
Last night’s AgChat topic was animal welfare. You can find some good information on animal welfare here. Apparently the animal rights activists got word of it and rallied their troops to try to disrupt the regular weekly conversation. In fact, the outreach coordinator at HSUS sent out an alert which I saw a copy of . It was pathetic to …
Pioneer Announces New T-Series Soybeans
Dupont Pioneer held a press conference this morning to announce a new series of Pioneer brand soybeans – the T Series (pdf). I participated in the call so you can listen to what was said including opening comments from Don Schafer, soybean marketing manager, and Dr. Jessie Alt, research scientist. It looks like there will be new product available throughout …
New Look for Precision Pays
Last night we launched a new look for PrecisionPays.com, the industry’s source for news and information about precision agriculture. If you’re new to Precision Pays please consider subscribing. This is the RSS feed. Just use your favorite feed reader software to subscribe to it. We are also producing a Precision Pays Podcast on a regular basis. Here’s the link to …
Zimfo Bytes
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation is pleased to welcome Andrew Wheeler as their new Public Relations Coordinator. FCS Financial is offering up to 35 scholarships valued at $1,000 each to encourage and support higher education. Beck’s Hybrids is pleased to announce the purchase of Imboden Farms in central Ohio. Dairy Farmers of America’s Board of Directors and management announced the Cooperative …
Book Review – Demystifying Food From Farm to Fork
This week I read, “Demystifying Food from Farm to Fork,” by Maurice J. Hladik. Many of you may be familiar with Hladik, an agricultural expert who has spoken at events all around the world including Commodity Classic. The goal of the book is to take a look at food production from “farm to fork”. As with many concepts, farm to …
Embedding Tweets
I’m just experimenting with Twitter’s embedded tweets. Haven’t done one before. Here’s a tweet I just did of the USFRA Faces of Farming winners announcement. Looks good. I’ll be keeping my eye out for tweets to share here from time to time now! Congrats @chrischinn @gilmerdairy Bo Stone & Katie Pratt – @usfra Faces of Farming: agwired.com/2013/01/22/usf… Sharing stories needing …
Las Vegas Biodiesel Conference Time
For the first time ever the National Biodiesel Conference will be held in Las Vegas. I will be there along with Cindy and Joanna Schroeder. We’ll be biodiesel blogging and providing coverage mostly on Domestic Fuel. Here’s where you can find registration information if you haven’t gotten that done yet. To get a preview of what’s to come listen in …
USFRA Announces Four Fresh Faces of Farming
The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has announced four Faces of Farming & Ranching chosen from on-line voting and a panel of judges. The four represent a range of agricultural commodities including corn and soybeans, hogs, cattle, and dairy and they were chosen from nine finalists announced last month at the New York Food Dialogues. The winners will act …
AgriVisor Has AgFanatics Podcast
Cory Winstead and Nick Klump are AgFanatics and they are not afraid to tell the world about it. AgFanatics is a new podcast from AgriVisor.com, an agricultural advisory firm that is part of the GROWMARK family of companies, and Cory and Nick are the happy hosts making stuff like Farm Bill, Fiscal Cliff, the river situation, marketing and USDA reports …