From all of us at the Daugherty Water for Food Institute, have a wonderful holiday season.
A Merry & Bright Christmas from GROWMARK
Merry Christmas from GROWMARK. From our smiling faces to Mistle-TOES… Your friends at GROWMARK wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas from FarmTime
FarmTime in the Classroom and all of our employees with you and your family a safe and Merry Christmas. We’ve been pinning some fun winter classroom activities. Follow our Christmas board.
Season’s Greetings from The Produce Mom
The Produce Mom shares how to Deck the Halls with a Strawberry Tree. What you need: 9-12″ craft foam cone 1 starfruit, sliced 5 lbs. strawberries, cleaned and trimmed 1 box toothpicks 1 – Push a toothpick into the cleaned top of the strawberry, leaving half of the toothpick exposed. 2 – Starting at the bottom, affix the strawberries to …
Happy Holidays from MGEX
Happy Holidays from our friends at MGEX. Wishing all a healthy and happy holiday season and a prosperous New year. All the best to you, your family and your company, Mark G. Bagan Jesse Marie Green Layne Carlson James Facente Blake Tiedeman
Nufarm U.S. Promotes Schwehr
Nufarm announced that Rob Schwehr has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Innovation & Regulatory Affairs for Nufarm Americas. In this position, Schwehr will oversee product development and interactions with governmental agencies which regulate Nufarm products. In addition, he will oversee the Technical Service Group within Nufarm Americas. He will continue to be located in the company’s …
2015 Interest Rates for Rural America
Brian O’Keane, Executive Vice President of AgriBank, spoke with our intern, Taylor Truckey, during Trade Talk at the 2014 National Association of Farm Broadcasting’s annual meeting. AgriBank is one of four banks in the Farm Credit system. Their main priority is accessing capital from Wall Street and making that available for borrowers in rural America. “If you look at the …
Gadget Gift Giving & Receiving
Our latest ZimmPoll asked the question, “What’s the biggest challenge for the seed industry?” All of agriculture depends in some way on seed. The long term survival of the seed industry impacts everything. It looks like you think anti-GMO attitudes have the greatest negative impact on the seed industry. Environmental regulations came in with a close second. Here are the …
Swine BioPortal Provides Flexibility to Data Evaluation
The collection of data is important when it comes to monitoring the PRRS virus. But what do you do with all those numbers once you have them? Dr. Enrique Mondaca, Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVI), hit on that during BIVI’s session at the North American PRRS Symposium last week in Chicago. The Swine BioPortal is an answer to how veterinarians and producers …
Gathering Data & Using It
There are different tools producers and technicians can take advantage of when coordinating disease control. Dr. Erin Johnson, Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVI), talked about a couple of these during the North American PRRS Symposium at BIVI’s breakout session. “One of our big data gap problems is we have a lot of data on the farm, but we don’t translate it very …