When it comes to farm show food booths, one that’s getting a lot of business at Sunbelt Ag Expo is Roasted Corn. Ron is the roasting man and I found him early in the morning before things got busy. He cooks with propane and says he does about 75 ears at a time. He like the combination of yellow and …
New T4000 Orchard Tractors From New Holland
Peach and blueberry growers just got a new tractor option from New Holland. I met with Andy Reinert, Mid-Range Tractor Marketing Manager, and learned all about it. He says the Sunbelt Ag Expo is the first place they’ve displayed the new tractor in the U. S. It’s got more power (comes in 62 to 82HP) and he says growers will …
Tyron Spearman is Sunbelt Media Mogul
When you come to the Sunbelt Ag Expo media room you experience Tyronny. At least that’s what I’m calling it when Tyron Spearman is in charge. I’ve known Tyron for a long time but hadn’t seen him in years since I haven’t been in the southeast much. He’s been involved with every Sunbelt Ag Expo (31 years). When I spoke …
Flame Your Pests Away
One of the companies exhibiting products in the Georgia Propane Gas Association building here at Sunbelt Ag Expo is Flame Engineering. They’ve got a full line of Red Dragon agricultural products. Red Dragon Agricultural Flamers kill unwanted weeds and grasses, break down old growth to make room for new, destroy insect habitat and provide safe & effective control without the …
Ag Cash Income At All Time High
One of our distinguished guests at today’s Sunbelt Ag Expo Southeast Farmer of the Year luncheon was Mark E. Keenum, USDA Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service. If you’re interested in hearing about the economics of what’s going on in agriculture then you may want to listen to him. His full comments are only about 12 minutes. However, I’m …
Everything Propane at Sunbelt Ag Expo
The Georgia Propane Gas Association has a very large building here at Sunbelt Ag Expo to display all the latest propane powered appliances and equipment. The gas fireplaces are very popular and they’ve even set up multiple rooms to provide ideas for how you can use them in your farm house. I went on a tour of their building today …
Brian Kirksey is Southeast Farmer of the Year
The big news of the day here at Sunbelt Ag Expo is the announcement of the Southeast Farmer of the Year. After a number of speeches and suspense it was announced that Brian Kirksey, Arkansas, was chosen as this year’s winner. He receives a check for $14,000 and is seen here on stage with his wife, Nan. Brian got to …
Sunbelt Ag Expo
Hello from Sunbelt Ag Expo and the media center. I’m on location at least today and tomorrow. It’s early and I’m just getting my bearings. We’ve got a Toyota-sponsored media breakfast in a few minutes and lunch today will include the announcing of the Southeast Farmer of the Year award. It’s been a few years since I’ve been to this …
Alpharma Student Video Contest
Alpharma is conducting a student video contest to help educate consumers about food and farming, especially animal agriculture. So, get out your FLIP’s, phones or whatever you shoot video with and get entered! In an innovative step toward consumer education, agriculture students from the East Coast to California are invited to participate in a three-phase contest, the first of which …
Advice On Reaching The Ruralpolitans
In this week’s ZimmCast you’ll hear the viewpoints of two industry leading experts on the rural lifestyle market. It seems like this is all anyone wants to talk about in the agrimarketing world these days. Keep your eye on AgWired if you’d like to learn more about it. The Marketing Director for John Deere Commercial and Consumer Equipment is Dennis …