Taking part in a joint presentation at the BI Foundations Seminar this week was Dr. Enrique Mondaca, a veterinarian from Mexico. His presentation focused on software utilities that are used to map where you’ll find the PRRS virus. He says this is important because often producers don’t know that there is a PRRS outbreak in their area. He says that …
One Way To Control PRRS
Dr. Scott Dee was one of the presenters at the BI Foundations Seminar this week. He provided an update on research assessing aerosol transmission of PRRSV and the results of air filtration technology for preventing the introduction of PRRSV into facilities. And of course, from the viewpoint of applying this to area and regional control projects. Scott says they’ve been …
Optimistic Outlook For Ag
The aviators attending the NAAA Convention got to hear some optimistic news today from Dr. Abner Womack, University of Missouri (pictured on right). He was here to talk about the results of the latest FAPRI outlook. I asked him what the news was. For one thing he says that inputs are coming down. Then over on the price side he …
New USB Website
The United Soybean Board has a newly designed website which features the ability to do some customization of the content you see. It’s an example of what I call the “try to be everything to everybody” strategy since it’s got weather, news, markets, etc. I suppose that’s fine for some people but . . . maybe it’s just me but …
Testing WordPress App From iPhone
I’m sitting in an ASABE Technical Session at the NAAA convention. BASF, our sponsor, is making two of them this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll be working with them in their trade show booth. So, let’s see how this iPhone app works.
NAAA Convention Underway
The National Agricultural Aviators Association Convention is officially underway after Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF, welcomed everyone at the kickoff breakfast. BASF is not only sponsoring our coverage of the meeting but is also a major sponsor once again of the convention. He told them that BASF is all about “keeping them in the air.” You can hear Gary’s remarks here: …
Multimedia Musings With DTN/The Progressive Farmer
While I was in Chicago for the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundations Seminar I also got to stop in at the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. They’ve been a sponsor of AgWired and some of our collateral material like the ZimmNews and ZimmCast for a few months now. I found publisher, Adrian Blake, and we sat down for a discussion. I …
The JackPlot!™ Background
Cindy wrote a great post on the JackPlot!™Vegas.com website that provides the whole background of the project. Since this is a great example of creative agrimarketing and integrating the use of new media I just thought I’d share it: The JackPlot!™ game is a pretty unique way of reaching out to farmers beyond traditional advertising and trade show exhibiting. One …
The Women of DTN/The Progressive Farmer
After today’s BI PRRS Foundations Seminar I went upstairs at the Marriott to the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. After all they’re our sponsor. So before I left to the airport I visited with a number of my DTN friends including Adrian Blake, Publisher, who will be the subject of tomorrow’s ZimmCast. Here are the friendly faces of the …
Combination of Control Options Works Best on PRRS
The whole focus of today’s BI Foundations Seminar is on area and regional control of the PRRS virus. One of our presenters did some research on just how well applying control techniques works on a wide area basis. He’s Dr. Dale Polson. He presented findings from a project that applied the principals of control to a large production system over …