The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is helping to support the future of agriculture by assisting in the creation of an information clearinghouse for beginning farmers. AFBF has teamed up with the Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Library to create the National Curriculum and Training Clearinghouse for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. The program will help those who have decided to pursue …
BASF Headline Harvest Report from SW Missouri
The harvest is running about a month behind schedule just about everywhere, including Missouri, which only had half the corn crop and a third of the soybean crop harvested as of November 1. BASF sent us out on the road this week to talk to some farmers about the late harvest and we started at the top, with World Soybean …
Minnesota Farmers Feed Hungry Families
Farmers in Minnesota are helping to feed the hungry, even as they face their own tough times. Minnesota Farmers Helping Families, a coalition of state agriculture commodity groups, recently donated more than $115,000 in pork and dairy products to Hunger Solutions Minnesota. Governor Tim Pawlenty was joined at the state capitol by representatives from the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion …
Agriculture Evolves Under Ag Leader Technology
Precision farming took a step forward this week as Ag Leader Technology of Ames, Iowa and AutoFarm of Fremont, California joined forces to provide auto steering and assisted steering solutions to the marketplace. “We think the combination of the two companies’ products is going to provide some great efficiencies to the end user,” says Dave King, Ag Leader Marketing Communications …
Novus Launches Human Nutrition Division
Novus International has launched its human nutrition division, Stratum Nutrition, to leverage the Novus core competencies in nutritional research and innovation. Beginning in 2010, Stratum will focus its efforts on growing a portfolio of specialty and functional ingredients that target Business to Business manufacturers of foods, beverages and dietary supplements in North America and Europe. As a global leader in …
Commodity Classic Gets Nitty Gritty
Getting down to the nitty gritty is part of what Commodity Classic is all about. It’s also about people who make their living off of the dirt. So, it’s fitting that the Grammy Award-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will be on the Evening of Entertainment stage at the 2010 Commodity Classic convention and trade show in Anaheim, California. Members of …
Fighting Food Fright
The National Corn Growers Association is fighting back against food fright scare tactics with some of their own. The NCGA started a viral email with a Halloween theme and links to the two videos that address some of the top food fears. The email links to a couple of new videos from NCGA that are filled with facts about food …
Boehringer Ingelheim Closes Fort Dodge Deal
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. (BIVI) has closed a deal with Pfizer to acquire a significant portion of the Fort Dodge Animal Health business. The acquisition, which includes products in the U.S., Australia, Canada and South Africa, as well as two manufacturing and research facilities located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, significantly increases the size of Boehringer Ingelheim’s companion animal and cattle …
Syngenta Seeds Thinks Like a Farmer
When Syngenta Seeds considers new products to bring to market, they think like a farmer. “They’re our primary customer at the end of the day and we can have the greatest technologies, the greatest genetics but if we don’t understand their business and the challenges they face, it could all be wasted,” said Agronomy Marketing Manager Bruce Battles at a …
May the Growth Force Be With You
If you are in agriculture and support ethanol, the Growth Force wants you. Growth Force is the individual membership arm of Growth Energy, the ethanol advocacy organization started about this time last year to help fight the attacks on farming and renewable fuels like ethanol. “Right now it’s more than 10,000 strong, and growing,” says Growth Energy director of public …