While you’re making your future plans don’t forget about the National Association of Farm Broadcasting convention. This year the theme is “A Rural Renaissance.” It looks like NAFB is placing all their future hope in the rural connection. It will be interesting to see how that plays out. Recently the NAFB board approved a 5-year strategic plan that has the …
Akismet Catches Comment Spam
Comment spam wasn’t something I knew much about until about a year ago when AgWired started to get hit hard. That’s when we made a decision to install Akismet on all our sites and all of our client’s sites as well. In fact, Akismet is a standard feature of any site we build today. So far Akismet on AgWired has …
Looking Forward To The NAMA Agribusiness Forum
It’s not too early to start looking forward to the NAMA Agribusiness Forum. This year the them is “Who’s Pulling Our Chain?” “The 2007 Agribusiness Forum will seek to demonstrate some of the elements that affect the way we do business. For example, things that happen on the other side of the world impact how we do business every day, …
Green Week in Cincinnati
It’s going to be a green week in Cincinnati, OH as John Deere puts its new products on display. I don’t have much information because as you can imagine there’s a tight lid on the announcements until they happen. However, you’ll be able to see them all here on AgWired starting mid week. AgWired coverage of the John Deere product …
Mexico Missouri Air Show
While I was out doing some field photography today I just happened to be passing Mexico, MO at a convenient time. This was a long zoom away but I think the contrast is pretty cool. I’m not sure what plane this is or who is flying it but this is the low spot in his dive just before going vertical …
Dry Corn In Missouri
I don’t grow corn but I’m just guessing that this isn’t what you want to see in mid August. This is a field in north central Missouri. We’ve been getting some spotty rain here in Missouri and the temperatures are cooling off a little finally. However, it may be too little too late for some fields like this one. Maybe …
Syngenta Learning Centers Wrapup
If you haven’t ever attended a Syngenta Learning Centers field day then I hope my coverage this week helps you make up for that fact. In fact, I hope it encourages you to attend one in the future. I’ve received a number of comments on the coverage and appreciate all of them. For example, it was noted that since I …
Learning About Agrisure
One of the people I met before leaving the Syngenta Learning Centers field day in Milford, IA was Tracy Mader, District Sales Manager for Syngenta Crop Protection. Tracy provided an update on Syngenta’s Agrisure corn traits. He first of all explains that AgriSure is a family of traits for corn. Besides some of the current products under the Agrisure brand …
Yield Barrier Breaker
When it comes to breaking the yield barrier Virgil Sparks, Soybean Product Development, Syngenta Seeds is the man. His talk at the Syngenta Learning Centers event in Iowa this week was titled, “Breaking the Yield Barrier With Genetics and Technology.” He says that one of the main things he wants people to know is that Syngenta is very serious about …
Remember The 6 Inch Rule
When it comes to growing corn Mike Leetch, Technical Services Representative, Syngenta says remember the soda can rule. That is that you don’t want your corn to be full of weeds when it gets to about 6 inches high. He also says you can use a beer can too. The reason for this is that studies show that yield will …