Sustainability is an overused term, according to Nevin McDougall, Senior VP for BASF Crop Protection, North America. “Getting more productivity, more efficiency, with less impact on our resources and our environment – that’s what it’s all about,” Nevin told me at the conclusion of the 2012 BASF Agricultural Solutions Media Summit in Chicago last week. Nevin was very pleased with …
Help Feed the World with GROWMARK Cookbook
GROWMARK employees have created a cookbook to help a group focused on feeding the world. In celebration of the International Year of Cooperatives, GROWMARK has announced that proceeds from sales of a new cookbook will go to Farmers Feeding the World, an industry-wide campaign to rally North American agriculture in the war against hunger. GROWMARK System employees and friends submitted …
Few Ag Names on Dot Domain List
There’s no dots for agriculture, corn, or cows on the list of nearly 2000 new generic top-level domain (or gTLD) name applications announced yesterday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). There’s .beer but not .beef, there’s .porn but not .pork, there’s .soy but not .soybean. There is .farm on the list, by one of several companies …
Pork Industry Concerned about Egg Bill
Pork producers are concerned that a bill regulating egg production could make it into the farm bill, which could impact more than just the poultry industry. “Some people have asked us why is the pork industry concerned about an egg bill,” said National Pork Producers Council director Bill Luckey of Nebraska during a press conference at World Pork Expo last …
Pork Expo Farm Bill Update
Pork producers know what they want in a 2012 Farm Bill, they’re just not sure if and when it will happen. Former National Pork Producers Council president Sam Carney of Iowa, co-chair of the organization’s farm bill policy task force, gave an update on the legislation, which happened at almost the very moment the Senate voted to advance the bill …
BASF Innovating for Sustainability
“Innovation as the Path to Sustainability” was the theme of the 2012 BASF Agricultural Solutions Summit last week in Chicago where the company’s top executives presented the latest crop protection and plant biotechnology strategies aimed toward sustainable food production for a growing population. Markus Heldt, President of BASF’s Crop Protection division, released initial results of the new AgBalance study launched …
POTNAFB Interviews POTUS
The president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting had the opportunity to interview the President of the United States today about a new report on the rural economy and farm policy. NAFB President Tom Steever of Brownfield Ag News not only asked President Obama about the Council of Economic Advisers report – Strengthening Rural Communities: Lessons From a Growing …
Those Funny Canadians!
“I’m Sexy and I Know it” has to be one of the most parodied songs ever, but here’s a new one with a dairy farm theme from a couple guys in Sussex, New Brunswick – “From Sussex and I know it.” Already almost 400,000 views since May 31!
Future Pork at the Expo
From the whole hog on down to the pork bellies, there’s tons of pork served each year at World Pork Expo, but there’s also plenty of future pork on the hoof around as well. The annual WPX Junior National show features young people, who might possibly one day be pork producers, and young hogs, who very likely will one day …
2012 “Olym-Pigs” at World Pork Expo
In honor of the big summer games coming up in just a few weeks, Automated Production Systems (APS) made the 2012 “Olym-Pigs Feastival” the theme for their annual World Pork Expo show pig this year. As always, the folks at APS went all out for the roll out of the roast hog on Thursday afternoon of the expo, with a …