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 …
USDA Staff Appointments
Sec. of Ag Tom Vilsack has made a number of staff appointments including: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY John Berge-White House Liaison to USDA. Lindsay Daschle-Confidential Assistant to the Secretary. Max Holtzman-Senior Advisor to the Secretary. Grant Leslie-Senior Advisor to the Secretary. David Lazarus-Senior Advisor to the Secretary. Sam Liebert-Staff Assistant to the Secretary. Rohan Patel-Director of Advance for the Secretary. …
Monsanto Announces Beachell-Borlaug Scholars Program
For Norman Borlaug’s 95th birthday today, Monsanto has created a $10 million grant to establish the Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program, which will “help identify and support young scientists interested in improving research and production in rice and wheat, two of the world’s most important staple crops, through plant breeding techniques.” Monsanto is funding the program, which will be administered by …
Corn Wipes Out Competition
Some students at Purdue University came up with a whole new way to look at corn and, umm . . . toilet paper. Glad they’re using the (Nature’s) silk. Better than the cob methinks. Three teams of Purdue University students that created new uses for corn and soybeans – melt-away cupcake liners, biodegradable cork and toilet paper – took top …
Cloudy Afternoon
I drove through a pretty impressive storm coming home this afternoon. The skies mostly cleared up and the sun came back out. It made for some interesting cloud formations like this one. I was mostly off the grid except for my iPhone yesterday and today. That’s the way it goes sometimes when the hotel internet is out, there’s a weak …
Green Field Work
I saw about 8 farm machines working in the field during a 400+ mile drive today through Missouri/Illinois/Indiana and Kentucky. Of those, 6 were green. Just in case you were wondering. I’d say that when it comes to being green (I just got another email release from another company proclaiming their green-ness) farmers and companies like John Deere have been …
Deere Landscapes
I’ll bet you didn’t know John Deere is into landscaping did you? I didn’t until I was out on a Drive Green Utility Tractor Show stop. It’s called John Deere Landscapes. John Deere Landscapes approaches the Industry from a whole new vantage point. Like you, we face the future with a healthy respect for the past. Our heritage is one …