At the conclusion of the World Ag Congress in St. Louis last week, Novus International held a sustainability roundtable for some of the congress participants to discuss how the livestock industry can step up to the sustainability challenge. Novus president and CEO Thad Simons, pictured here with his son Kenneth, were among the participants. Thad says this year’s World Ag …
Climate Change and Animal Agriculture
UC-Davis Air Quality Extension Specialist Dr. Frank Mitloehner presented his views on animal agriculture and climate change during the World Ag Congress last week in St. Louis, and then followed up with a presentation on sustainability in livestock production during a roundtable presented by Novus International. Dr. Mitloehner talked about the United Nations report that claimed livestock produce more greenhouse …
Syngenta Gives FarmAssist a Face Lift
Syngenta Crop Protection has redesigned the online face of the company, FarmAssist.com. With more than 30,000 visitors per month, FarmAssist® provides users with up-to-the-minute agricultural news and commentary, local weather customized by zip code, market observations and agronomic and product information. The refreshed FarmAssist provides a better user experience, allowing visitors to navigate more easily through current industry news, updated …
BASF Sponsors Fly-ins
Agricultural aviators across the country are attend fly-in workshops this year sponsored by BASF. The workshops give agricultural aviators a chance to gather each year to test their equipment and learn about new developments in application technologies to ensure they are applying crop protection products evenly, efficiently and safely. Analysts with the Operation Self-Regulating Application and Flight Efficiency (S.A.F.E.) from …
International Journalists at World Ag Congress
Last week’s World Agricultural Forum World Ag Congress attracted a great crop of journalists, both locally and internationally. Pictured here interviewing keynote speaker Paul Collier (left) are two leaders of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) – current president Mike Wilson with Farm Futures magazine and senior vice president Markus Rediger of Switzerland’s LID Agricultural Information Center. Read Mike’s …
Novus Holds Sustainability Roundtable
The World Ag Congress concluded in St. Louis at midday on Wednesday, but the discussion continued with about 50 of the congress participants who attended the Novus International sustainability roundtable. Four speakers presented sustainability-related topics and the first was Charlie Arnot, CEO of the Center for Food Integrity (CFI) who talked about how building and maintaining public trust and confidence …
World Ag Congress Climate Change Discussion
No forum on world food security issues would be complete without a session on climate change and that was how the World Ag Congress concluded its roundtable discussions Wednesday. While the issue may be debatable, there is no question that agriculture should be taking every opportunity to decrease greenhouse gas emissions – including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Panalist …
Biofuels Discussion at World Ag Congress
Biofuels from the perspective of India and East Africa, as well as Europe and the United States, were part of the discussion at the World Ag Congress in St. Louis on Tuesday. Henk Joos with London-based D1 Oils moderated the panel focusing on an integrated approach to biofuels. He stressed that the purpose of the panel was to find solutions. …
New CEO Introduced for World Agricultural Forum
Dr. Leonard J. Guarraia, Chairman and CEO of the World Agricultural Forum, announced today at the 2009 World Ag Congress that his title will soon only be chairman of the organization and that Kathy Moldthan is taking over the job of CEO. Kathy has been with WAF for ten years, just before the first World Ag Congress in 1999. Prior …
Agrotain Focuses on Sustainability at Ag Congress
It should be no surprise that sustainability is the most often used word here at the World Agricultural Forum’s World Ag Congress in St. Louis since the agriculture industry as a whole remains under the microscope when it comes to environmental issues. Another company making a difference in that arena is St. Louis-based AGROTAIN International and I talked with president …