Time to make your plans to participate in the 2010 Ag Day Celebration. Here are the details: Ag Day 2010 in Celebration of American Agriculture Join other industry leaders on March 18, 2010, for two great events to honor and celebrate just how AMAZING American agriculture really is! Mix & Mingle Luncheon 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. U.S. Capitol Visitors …
No Farms No Food Merchandise
This slogan pretty well sums things up don’t you think? No Farms No Food. The American Farmland Trust opened an E-Commerce store during the holiday season and you can still make purchases. The store features our first line of products with the No Farms No Food® message. American Farmland Trust encourages buyers to keep the shopping spirit alive as we …
Encourage Yellow Tail To Withdraw H$U$ Support
According to radical extremist group H$U$, they have received a $100,000 donation from Yellow Tail wines. They’re calling it the “tails for tails” program and the organizational logo will appear on Yellow Tail wine displays throughout the country through the end of March. The photo shows what one former product fan thinks of the donation decision. Feel free to let …
Field To Table Video
How many discussions have you participated in about showing consumers how food gets from the field to the plate? I lost count a while ago. There are many groups and efforts going on to accomplish this. Here’s one I just found from the Canned Food Alliance. They’re using YouTube and MealTimes.org. Canned food is one of the most versatile options …
Chicago Farmers Reminder
This is just a reminder that I’ll be attending and presenting at Saturday’s Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair. It will be held at the Joliet Junior College Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center. I’ll be conducting two morning sessions on social media before heading to Dallas, TX for the National Biodiesel Conference where I’ll be the Biodiesel Blogger again. If you haven’t …
SureVac From Ag Leader Technology
Earlier this week Ag Leader Technology added the patent-pending SureVac electric row shutoff to their lineup of planter section shutoff devices. Since I was at the Iowa Power Farming Show I stopped in and learned all about it from Chad Huedepohl. You can watch the interview or just listen to it below. Here’s the details: SureVac provides today’s precision farming …
America’s Farmers Grow Communities
There are booths on the floor of three different buildings at the Iowa Power Farming Show. They’re also in the hallways. I stopped at this one to learn about the Monsanto sponsored America’s Farmers Grow Communities Project. Lots of farmers were stopping by to sign up their favorite local charity. To tell us all about it I interviewed Gayla Daugherty, …
Priority Setting For FY 2011 Beef Budgets
After all the committees meet during convention the leaders got together for a special extra meeting to set their priorities. This was done via a wireless electronic process. You can see CBB Board member Robert Fountain, Jr. (Secretary/Treasurer) holding up his device before they got started. I spoke about the process with Rick Husted who managed the session. He says …
Soybean Man
You never know what you’ll run into at a farm show. In this case it’s the Bayer CropScience Soybean Man. He didn’t talk so I didn’t interview him. Just saw him wandering around and took his picture. I’m sure that if you want to know more you’ll need to talk to your local Bayer CropScience representative. Iowa Power Farming Show …
Auditorium View of Iowa Power Farming Show
I enjoyed day one of the Iowa Power Farming Show. You’ve got to like a show that’s indoors when the day starts out at 14 degrees. Cindy will be attending next week’s National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville which is an indoor show too. From all indications it was a good start here today. Like many farm shows, the second …