The Beltwide Cotton Conference has been going on all week in San Antonio. The Conference is all about improving and enhancing cotton production, but some policy issues always come up – especially when trade is such a vital part of the US cotton industry.
Turn Off Conventional Radio Forever
That’s the theme on Motorola’s new iRadio website. I signed up to be alerted when this new service is available later this year. They claim it will have “Hundreds of commercial-free radio stations and your personal digital music collection on the one device you’re never without–your iRadio-enabled mobile phone.”
Butter Is Bigger & Better
A little butter makes things better. In this case The Farm Show got kicked off in Pennsylvania with a sculpture crafted from 800 pounds of butter that was donated by the Land O’Lakes plant in Carlisle, PA.
Bugs Have Been Bugging Me Today
I had hoped to have some more items posted today but thanks to a bug on my main notebook computer that hasn’t been possible. If I could find the person who created this bug I’d love to “pinch his little head off” as a good friend of mine likes to say.
Show Me Shape Up Challenge
The Missouri Beef Industry Council’s weekly MBIC Report this week is with Consumer Information Director Alane Lidolf who talks about the upcoming Show-Me Shape Up Program. MBIC is helping to sponsor the shape up program which begins next week. People can sign up for the challenge at http://www.smsg.org/showmeshapeup/.
iPod Guru is Radio Person of the Year
I thought I was done for the day until I saw this on Jaffe Juice. Steve Jobs was named Radio Person of the Year by Radiodailynews.com.
CowChips Introduces HeatWatchII
I would probably have posted a story about this anyway and I’m going to use in on World Dairy Diary too, but a company with this name deserves recognition. Besides the company name they’ve come up with a pretty good product name too.
ZimmComm Blog Sponsors Announced
We’re going to send out a news release on this but I’m too excited to wait. As some of you may have noticed earlier this week on AgWired, we have new sponsors coming on board World Dairy Diary.
Farm Products And Rose Bowl Bet
The Rose Bowl will be played shortly so how much more timely could this post be about the Governator waging a little promotional bet with his counterpart in Texas?
Record First Quarter For Monsanto
It looks like Monsanto is planning on having a good year. According to their President and CEO, Hugh Grant, “The contribution of our seeds and traits business continues to grow, as more and more farmers throughout the world recognize the value and convenience of our products for their farms.