2009 Show-Me Tractor Cruise

Chuck Zimmerman

This year’s Show-Me Tractor Cruise is in the books and looks like it was a good one. It is a benefit ride for Camp Quality Northwest Missouri, a summer camp and year-round support program whose lives have been changed due to cancer. This year’s Show-Me Tractor Cruise was another success! 321 tractors registrered for the ride…302 checked in and 272 …

Tractor

Lake Relaxation

Chuck Zimmerman

This was my scene for a while this afternoon. A group of my neighbors and I bought Trimble Lake and have cleaned it, stocked it and cut a trail around it. Actually, they did all the work so far. It’s not a big lake but big enough to fish on and enjoy the scenery. This was a beautiful place to …

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Update From Laura

Chuck Zimmerman

AgWired readers may remember Laura McNamara, freelance photojournalist who wrote for us and covered a number of events. According to her latest email she’s doing well in Guatemala. This is a photo she sent along to show her John Deere friends that they’ve got fans among the Chorti Maya Indians. He’s a a young Chorti Maya boy living in a …

International

Pontifical Academy Approves Genetically Modified Crops

Chuck Zimmerman

I’ll take the opportunity to post a photo of my main man, Pope Benedict XVI anytime. Thanks to Terry Wanzek who grows corn, soybeans, and wheat on his family farm in North Dakota and serves as a North Dakota Senator and board member of Truth About Trade & Technology, for a great letter. In it he mentions that the Pontifical …

Biotech

International Trade Is Now Causing Global Warming

Chuck Zimmerman

The folks at the United Nations are at it again, this time along with the World Trade Organization. Last time it was their idiotic report about how cows and other forms of livestock are contributing so much to global warming (now calling it climate change which I believe happens naturally every year). This time they’ve moved a step ahead to …

Environment, Farm Policy, International, Wackos

Katy Trail River Scene

Chuck Zimmerman

This Missouri River scene is just one reason why I like biking on the Katy Trail. Its very peaceful and relaxing. And my new iPhone takes pretty good pictures! Post Update: The first edition of this post was from my iPhone, using the WordPress app, but I found I need to work on some settings since I had to edit …

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Protest Bank of America’s HSUS Credit Card

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s something to fire you up on a summer Thursday. As reported on CattleNetwork this morning, Bank of America is now offering “The Humane Society of the United States® WorldPoints® Platinum Plus® Visa® Card.” Thank BOA. Help provide funds (25 cents of every 100 dollars charged) to an organization that essentially misleads people to get their money to fund their …

Animal Activists

Ray-Lin Dairy Blog

Chuck Zimmerman

More and more farmers are speaking out in the social web world and I think it’s great. Take Ray Prock, Ray-Lin Dairy. He’s got a blog going and is very active on Twitter. Welcome to Ray-Lin Dairy’s newly minted blog. To start with here is a little background information about us. We are a second generation Dairy Farm located in …

Farming

Live Horse TV = H-SPAN

Chuck Zimmerman

You’ve heard of C-SPAN. Now there’s H-SPAN. The H is for Horse. HorseTV, the first and only multi-platform television network dedicated to providing programming for a worldwide equestrian audience, announced today the launch of H-SPAN, the industry-serving component of its online television portal. With the announcement of the H-SPAN activation and the amazing lineup of initial programming included in the …

Horses

Speedy iPhone Has Arrived

Chuck Zimmerman

The S stands for speed and starting today we’re going to find out how much better the AgriBlogger phone of choice works. That’s because my new iPhone 3G S has arrived. I’ve been asked to do a review on it which I intend to do after a couple of days of working with it. Activation was simple and so was …

Equipment