New Holland Agriculture’s First in the Field event has taken place throughout the month of July. The event is designed to train and educate dealers on new products, but ag media had the opportunity to take it all in as well. While enduring the heat in southern Texas, ag media spent the morning going through six checkpoints. Each station dug …
Pioneer See the T Photo Contest
Got some T’s? Take a picture and submit in the Dupont Pioneer See the T Photo Contest. The “See the T” photo contest has just launched as a fun tie-in with the arrival of the new Pioneer® brand T Series soybeans. Just “Find a T, Snap a T and SubmiT” photos of T’s, on or around your farm, then upload …
On the Top of the World
You’ve all seen the famous “Titanic” scene where the star-crossed lovers are on the bow of the boat, arms outstretched, and Jack’s character yells, “I’m the king of the world!” The movie writers must have been inspired by a farm kid. That’s my theory anyway. Why do I say that? Because they probably caught an 8-year-old farm girl on top …
Engage Energize Empower at NAMA Fall Conference
This fall you can Engage, Energize and Empower at the National Agri-Marketing Association Fall Conference. The conference provides outstanding professional development opportunities to help you take your career to the next level. Registration is now open. Agri-marketers are always looking for opportunities to learn more … to challenge themselves and get better at what they do. The NAMA Fall Conference …
MAIZALL Announces Board and Website
An organization uniting corn growers of North and South America has elected officers and unveiled a new website. The International Maize Alliance (MAIZALL) was formed in May between the corn industries of the United States, Brazil and Argentina with the goal of addressing key issues concerning food security, biotechnology, stewardship, trade and producer image. MAIZALL is composed of MAIZAR, representing …
Agri-Pulse Open Mic with Rep. Dave Loebsack
New on Agri-Pulse this week: Congressman Dave Loebsack, who recently hosted Rep. Collin Peterson, the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, in his southeastern Iowa district, explains why he and other Democrats could not support the split farm bill that passed the House a few weeks ago with only GOP votes. Loebsack is quite concerned about failure to get …
Most Have Some Ag Apps
Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “How many ag-related apps do you have?” Our poll results: · 1-5 44% · None 31% · 5-10 16% · More 6% · 10-15 3% That means that almost 70% of you have at least one ag-related app. And the number of ag-related apps for smart phones and tablets continues to grow – from …
Zimfo Bytes
Farm Market iD announced that the Farm Market iD Database has been updated with 2012 crop year data. Smithfield Foods is on track to complete an industry-leading goal of phasing out individual gestation stalls in favor of group housing for pregnant sows at all company-owned sow farms by 2017. DuPont and Pannar Seed Limited closed on a transaction in which …
AgriVisor Helps Market Grain to Maximize Profitability
Grain marketing in today’s world means diversification and minimizing risk to maximize profitability, and AgriVisor helps farmers do just that. Account manager Cory Winstead says there are several ways they work with farmers. “We work directly with brokerage services and then since 1973 AgriVisor has been putting out general advice with recommendations,” he said. They also work with elevators, offering …
New Holland Dealer Training
New Holland Agriculture has spent a good part of the summer in the great state of Texas training their dealers from across North America. The training has taken place in Houston, where the temps are high and the humidity is even higher. But that hasn’t stop dealers from taking advantage of the two-day training opportunity. The dealers rotate through six …