Is meat getting sexy again? Here’s one case in point. This provocatively posed porker is part of an ad campaign by Rachachuros Seasoning that also includes similar sexy shots of a duck and a chicken. Another case in point: Top Chef ’s Padma Lakshmi steamy Carls Jr. burger commercial that got quite a bit of attention when it came out …
IFMA 17 Top Ten List
Top ten things the student correspondents learned at the International Farm Management Congress last week: 10. Make sure the microphone is plugged in all the way when recording an audio interview. 9. When the British woman says she does not want her picture taken, she really means it! 8. Always be a half an hour early when waiting to on …
Grains Council CEO Looks Back and Ahead
Ken Hobbie has been with the U.S. Grains Council for 34 of the organization’s nearly 50 year history and things have changed quite a bit over those years. “When I first came to the council, we were focused on two primary market regions, Western Europe and Russia, they were taking more than 50 percent of the grain that we exported …
IFMA Closes
The 17th annual International Farm Management Congress (IFMA17) drew to a close Friday at The Bone Student Center on the campus of Illinois State University. During the conference, IMFA17 members were privy to a slew of academic presentations from students and professors from the 30 countries that were represented. IMFA17 also took to the road with stops at the Chicago …
Results of Mid-Year Survey of Illinois Land Values
Bob Swires, President of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, presented the association’s mid-year survey Friday at the 17th annual International Farm Management Congress Friday. Here are the findings for the first half of 2009: 1. Illinois Society members indicated that land values fell slightly during the first half of 2009. For excellent quality farmland, land …
Dr. Lowell Catlett Discusses Future of Farm Management
The International Farm Management Association 17 (IMFA 17) Congress, held at Illinois State University this week, came to a close on Friday, July 24 with a unique keynote address from Dr. Lowell B. Catlett. His presentation, “New Frontiers that Change Everything,” was an eye-opening discussion about the future of farm management in connection to changes that have developed within society. …
Mid-Year Survey of Illinois Land Values to Be Released
MEDIA ALERT! Who: Bob Swires, AFM, Swires Land and Management What: The Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraiser will release their Mid-Year Survey of Illinois land values for 2009. Did the value of land increase or decrease? Bob Swires of AFM and Swires Land and Management will tell all during the final session of International Farm Management …
Egyptian Women in Agriculture
Amin Ismail Abdou of the National Research Centre in Egypt presented the abstract of his paper on the role of Egyptian women in agriculture during Wednesday’s afternoon session of the 17th International Farm Management Association Congress. Abdou acknowledged that Egyptian women have significantly improved their standards of living over the years. While the women’s suffrage movement during the 1920s and …
IFMA 17 Presenters Discuss Risk Assessment of Small-Scale Farms
John Hewlett of the University of Wyoming teamed up with Jeffrey Tranel and Rodney Sharp of Colorado State University to develop a series of CD- and web-based courses to help producers manage different kinds of risk after studying the demographics of small-scale farming operations in the states of Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. The men presented their work yesterday at the International …
Spouses of IFMA17 Members Tour IL
It’s not only the IFMA17 members that are traveling around the state of Illinois this week, their spouses are getting in on the act to. After participating in an Abraham Lincoln educational tour earlier this week, that included stops at the David Davis Mansion, The McLean County Museum of History and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the husbands …