I’ll be updating and monitoring this feed as much as I can during the next several hours of the Farm Foundation’s Transition To A Bio Economy Conference: Global & Trade Issues. The focus is on biofuels. Update: I’ve closed the session but it’s archived for you to “replay” if you’d like. I’ll be posting speaker interviews over the next several …
Global Trade & Policy Issues and Biofuels
Wally Tyner is an energy economist with the Dept. of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He’s one of the first speakers on the Farm Foundation, Transition To A Bio Economy Conference: Global Trade and Policy Issues. I was able to speak with him before the program kicks off this afternoon here in Washington, DC. Wally says Farm Foundation decided to …
Sell Internet Access Sponsorships
I’m glad to find out that the Brownfield Network will be sponsoring the internet access at my NAMA breakout session on social media and I thank them. Internet access is really becoming such an important part of everyday life and business that I was determined to find a way to have it. This brought up an idea that I’m sure …
Going Global In DC
I’m heading east out of a sunny St. Louis in just a few minutes to Washington, DC. I’ll be covering Farm Foundation’s “Transition To A Bioeconomy Conference – Global Trade and Policy Issues.” I should have online coverage and Twitterage starting after lunch tomorrow here and on Domestic Fuel. I’ll be posting photos and interviews which all media are welcome …
Tractor Chasers A John Deere Website
Alert AgWired reader Michael Kopka has pointed out, Tractor Chasers is a John Deere website. As if you hadn’t already figured that out. I’ve been off the grid for a couple days but am back in the saddle. I got this notice on my way out of town on Friday so Cindy handled the duties of pointing you to the …
What Farm Policy Is Looking Like
Since the new staff at USDA is finally filling out and we’ve now had a couple months of a new administration in Washington, DC I thought it might be a good time to learn about what’s going with farm policy these days. So I went to the expert, Keith Good, Farm Policy. Keith and I chatted via Skype today and …
RuMBA Proposes American Broadband Bill of Rights
It looks like the Rural Mobile Broadband Alliance is getting their stuff together. They want to help guide the debate over development of broadband connectivity and have offered the following: According to RuMBA’s Managing Director, Luisa Handem, the “American Broadband Bill of Rights” demands all Americans have access to a network that is: (1) Ubiquitous – Services and devices should …
Say Happy Birthday To Dr. Borlaug
There’s a great post on I Am Biotech about birthday boy, Norman Borlaug. He’s a Nobel Laureate and 95 years old today. Visit the post and leave him a message in the comments (you may comment here too). Today is the 95th birthday of Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who is widely known as the father of the Green Revolution. …
Win An HP Mini Netbook or Desktop Speaker/Dock At NAMA
The ZimmComm New Media booth is going to be hot and sizzling at this year’s NAMA Convention! We’re celebrating 5 years in business! How would you like to have your very own HP Mini Netbook computer? Stop by our NAMA booth and get something tweet (you’ll understand when you get there) and register to win. We’re providing some hot incentives …
Small Oil Well
I don’t know how many of these little oil wells I’ve seen driving around the countryside. Coming back from Kentucky this week I got up close and personal with one at a highway rest stop in southern Indiana. It was very windy out but you can get a good sense of what it’s like being close to one. Does anybody …