With travel and meetings in St. Louis today I haven’t had time to celebrate a Gator victory last night in the BCS Championship game. How sweet is it to be a graduate of the only school to ever have both the basketball and football national championships at the same time? I promise not to bring this up again (soon).
New Utility Tractors From John Deere
John Deere’s got a couple of new utility tractors coming out. They’re the 5603 (pictured) and 5625 Tractors, both rated at 99 engine horsepower.
www.animalag.org
Since animal agriculture represents the biggest market for soybeans, the United Soybean Board is making sure there’s a good online resource for the industry. I assume this is part of their animal ag initiative.
Corn Photo Contest Winner
Peggy Bellar is welcome to submit photos for me to use on AgWired anytime. She’s a winner once again.
Gateway Farm Lunch
The Gateway NAMA chapter is having its luncheon today (right now) in conjunction with the St. Louis Agribusiness Club. Speaking is Terry Barr, Chief Economist for the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and Vice President of the Cooperative Business Center in NCFC. His subject is “Implications for Agribusiness with an Updated Outlook of the U.S. Economy.” We’ve got about 60 people here.
We Are The Champions
How ’bout them Gators?
I just had to say that. They are the champions after last night’s BCS Championship whomping of Ohio State. They also have an excellent ag school in case you didn’t know that. I graduated from the College of Journalism.
This is a celebration day for those of us in the Gator Nation, which is their online social networking site.
Duda Farms Celery Straws
Here’s a whole new way to drink your bloody mary. Celery straws from Duda Farm Fresh Foods. Yes, according to a story on Iconoculture the wizards at Duda have engineered a celery stalk that works as an edible straw. I’m sure you can think up some creative things to do with this.
Diversa Partners With Syngenta
Since today’s ZimmCast focused on biofuels this is a timely story as more companies are working together to try to increase the efficiency of biofuel production.
Renessen & Efficient Ethanol Production
Biofuels are continuing to be a hot topic in agriculture so I’m glad to have a ZimmCast for you this week on how a company is working to make ethanol plants more efficient and offering a new corn hybrid to growers that will produce a premium product tailored for ethanol production.
Ice Cream Blogging
You never know what you’re going to find when you’re Googling around. Like this story I just posted on World Dairy Diary. It’s your basic neat promotional story about an ice cream and a football team. But as I was looking at the Turkey Hill Dairy website I discovered they have a blog.