Some of the Twitter-heads attending World Dairy Expo met up for a Tweet Up on Thursday afternoon at the Media Room. Organized by Twitter AgChat moderator Michele Payn-Knoper, the Tweet Up allowed fellow tweeps to get together and discuss technical and agricultural issues. If you have not ever participated in AgChat, it takes place on Tuesday nights from 8-10 pm …
Farm Bureau Opposes New Climate Bill
This week, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) debuted the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,” an 821-page bill designed to “create clean energy jobs, reduce pollution, and protect American security by enhancing domestic energy production and combating global climate change,” as well as creating millions of green energy jobs. Part of that includes reducing carbon emissions …
Ag Retailers Association Names Coppock CEO
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) has named Daren Coppock as the organization’s new President and CEO, replacing Jack Eberspacher who passed away in July after a brief battle with cancer. Coppock is an experienced association leader with deep ties to the agricultural community having been raised on a farm in Oregon and serving as an advocate for production agriculture for …
Charleston Orwig is Legendary in the Dairy Business
Charleston Orwig must have more dairy industry related clients than any other communications agency in the country, which makes sense since they are located literally in the heartland of the state synonymous with dairy production – Hartland, Wisconsin. At World Dairy Expo this year they are working with a number of clients – including Alpharma, Arm and Hammer animal nutrition, …
Grains Council China Corn Tour
The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) is blogging and Flickring through this year’s China Corn Tour, taking place right now. These great photos and many more have been posted on the USGC Flickr account by Erick Erickson, special assistant to the president, who has also been blogging about the trip on The Grain Board. In one post Erick wrote about the …
Syngenta Soybeans Raising the Bar
Syngenta Seeds is launching the new NK-1 Class Soybeans for the 2010 planting season. Dan Dyer, Syngenta Seeds Soybean Product Development Lead, told ag media during the grand opening of the company’s new headquarters that varieties like this prove how Syngenta Seeds is raising the bar. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed in our own data and what …
More Peanut Butter for Hungry Georgians
The Georgia peanut industry donated another 14,112 jars of peanut butter today in celebration of Hunger Action Month in September. This donation was made to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank. “We are very appreciative of all the donations and efforts that have made this donation come to fruition. This donation will supply needed food protein to thousands of households …
Novus Partners with Vitamin Angels
Novus International is helping humans as well as animals with nutrition needs to achieve their corporate mission of helping “feed the world affordable, wholesome food and achieve a higher quality of life.” The St. Louis-based company is partnering with Vitamin Angels on a new humanitarian program that supplies children with zinc in order to relieve severe diarrhea. This partnership coincides …
AgCareerSpotter Highlights Certified Crop Advisors
AgCareerSpotter is making it easier for employers to find the agronomy professionals they need. The recruiting web site has recently added online search features that highlight Certified Crop Advisers (CCA) and allow employers to quickly find CCAs. “When an employer is in need of a highly qualified agronomy professional, they look for the CCA designation, and the new features on …
Syngenta Seed Breeders in Paradise
Why is this man smiling? Probably because he spends about half the year in Hawaii working on new corn seed hybrids for growers to plant back here on the mainland. Ben Hable (pronounced Hobbly) is