Representatives of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) will be squaring off to debate on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) this week in Washington D.C. AgriTalk and Agri-Pulse will be hosting the debate via broadcast and the web on September 12 starting at 11:00 am Eastern time live from the Longworth Building, Room 1300. …
Head of DuPont Argentina Addresses IFAJ
The country manager for DuPont in Argentina addressed the IFAJ 2013 Congress during the last day of activities for the event and he talked about the importance of the country for his company. “DuPont is a science company and we want to produce solutions for some of the biggest challenges in the world and one of those is feeding the …
2013 IFAJ Congress Group Photo
Here’s the whole group of 2013 IFAJ Congress participants at our La Campiña lunch tour and stop. Thank you Case IH and New Holland for your support. 2013 IFAJ Congress Photo Album
BASF Plant Health – Weather or Not
Keeping plants healthy in all types of weather conditions was the theme of a BASF Crop Protection presentation at the 2013 Farm Progress Show and if there ever was a year of weather extremes, this has been it. “You can come up with an extreme spell of dryness, an extreme spell of wet weather, you put them together and technically …
ZimmComm Hits 100,000 Photos During IFAJ 2013
“I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph, so Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.” Paul Simon Sometime last week during the IFAJ 2013 Congress, ZimmComm reached a milestone of 100,000 photos in our eight-year-old Flickr account. We picked this photo as our 100,000th – since we are not exactly sure but it’s one of our favorites. …
Vote for Your Favorite FMC Anthem Singer
Four agricultural students will win scholarship prizes in this year’s FMC “Stand & Be Heard Anthem Singing Contest.” Alexandra Carpenter, Noelle Goodson, Hayley Hall and Alexander Raun (pictured here with FMC’s Paul Redhage) were recently selected by a panel of judges and then traveled to Nashville to take part in a professional Music City recording experience. “The quality of this …
IFAJ 2013 Finale Features Evita and Maria
A beautiful performance of Evita’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” was the highlight of the IFAJ 2013 Congress Gala Dinner on the last night of a very memorable trip. One of the event organizers, María Mosquera, said the Congress was a lot of hard work but well worth the effort. “We had almost 200 people registering from 30 countries,” she …
Zimfo Bytes
Michael Torrey Associates welcomed Tara Smith to the government relations and association management firm on August 12. BASF inaugurated its new research facilities in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina at a grand opening ceremony. Agrium Inc. announced that it has entered into a Consent Agreement with the Canadian Competition Bureau and thereby cleared the Canadian competition review process in …
Talking Chemicals with Bayer
Bayer’s Media Luncheon during last week’s Farm Progress Show was a great opportunity to talk with experts in both fungicide and herbicide products. Randy Myers, Fungicides Product Manager for Bayer, was on hand to talk fungicides at the recent farm show. He covers fungicides across the board, but we specifically chatted about Stratego YLD and Prosaro in regards to corn, …
Argentine Agriculture Secretary Comments at IFAJ
We did get to hear from a high ranking official in the Argentine government during the IFAJ Congress this week – but not in English and there was no opportunity to ask questions. Lorenzo Basso’s title is Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture of Argentina, so not exactly the equal to Tom Vilsack in the U.S., more like Deputy Secretary …