A fine wine sometimes needs some time. And that’s the way our USTR, Rob Portman looks at the U.S./EU Wine Accord. It looks like we’ve reached an agreement, sort of. At least a beginning of an agreement. Actually a Wine Accord. It only took 20 years to get this far.
Taste Beer At World Grains Summit
When a conference has a program titled, “Beer Tasting 101” it gets my attention. That’s one of the things you can attend in conjunction with the first ever World Grains Summit: Food and Beverages, San Francisco, Sept. 17 – 20. This is a new conference sponsored by AACC International and the Master Brewers Association of the Americas.
What’s Blue, French and English
Here’s a new website to look at. The Canadian Belgian Blue Association is now online. It’s simple and has a unique multi-lingual functionality. When you visit the home page text is in English on the left and French on the right. So you’ve basically got a bi-lingual mirrored website. Nicely done folks. Lots of pictures. Loads fast. There is one little animated title thing but I can take that. Otherwise it’s information in short chunks that are easy to navigate to.
John Deere Fans Blog at Rungreen.com
Rungreen.com just sent out a news release that says:
Ottawa Urged to Make Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements a Priority
With the Americans signing more Free Trade agreements all the time, Canada needs to do the same.
Follow The Moo-Town Bloggers
This story is pretty cool so I had to share it beyond World Dairy Diary. Are you a fan of the Cow Parade? Here’s a cool way to keep up with the artists who are busy working on new cows. Some of them have their own blogs. Well, they’re mostly sort of blogs. My favorite is Rosemaling, the bottom one. The latest Moo-Town Moosletter lists the following:
PETA Survey Lacks Credibility – News Flash
I’m sure you’ve heard of PETA. Not the people eating tasty animals folks but the other one. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous they are I just found out about their latest scam. You can read about it here.
Phone “Broadcast” of Ag Day Program
The term “broadcast” has a lot of meanings these days. It could mean over the air transmission, satellite feed, internet streaming, podasting or a dial-in phone feed. That last one is what the Agriculture Council of America is doing for Ag Day.
Rhea & Kaiser Winning Awards Again
It’s NAMA awards time and it looks like Rhea & Kaiser are doing fine. I didn’t make it to any awards programs so far. But there’s still the big one in April.
Zimfo Bites
A Zimfo bite is a short bit of zimmformation. I’m going to get better at this I promise. I just think calling them news bites or quick links is too boring.
We are exporting a lot of farm machinery – $6 billion worth last year, up 15%.
Ag hedging does not involve the use of clippers.
Biomaxx Systems Gets a Biotechnologist.
American Seeds (Monsanto) acquires Gold Country Seeds and Heritage Seeds.
Tractorhouse wants you to subscribe.
The press release is now “fully web enabled.”