2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Near the start of our coverage from this year’s National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, Cindy talked to President and CEO of the Kentucky State Fair Board, Harold Workman, to get a preview of what was to come. After four big days with more than 800 exhibitors showing their latest and greatest …
Get on the ISOBUS with TeeJet Technologies!
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the best parts of the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is the cutting-edge technology you see in just about every booth along the way. Companies obviously know this gathering is the perfect place to show off what they’ve got and time the release of many products to coincide with …
EZ-Sync from Trimble to Keep Producers & Offices Connected
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album There’s another innovation from Trimble making its debut at the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Ky. Trimble has sent out this press release introducing its EZ-Sync™ solution, a wireless data transfer capability that provides enhanced information management for growers and agribusinesses. While I was at the Trimble booth checking out the …
Trimble Shows EZ-Surface Software at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album California-based Trimble, a technology company specializing in software that has, among others, applications for agriculture, construction and mapping, has introduced its EZ Surface Software to provide surface drainage analysis and design, especially for farmers and drainage contractors. This marks the first time in the industry where the complete survey, design, layout, machine control, …
Championship Tractor Pull at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the great things about the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Kentucky is that it is held in conjunction with the Championship Tractor Pull … the largest, oldest and most prestigious indoor tractor pull, according to Corinne Fetter, Director of Expositions for the Kentucky State Fair Board. I sat down …
New Holland Wins FinOvation Award at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Chalk up another innovation for our friends at New Holland! The company that is bringing you AgWired’s coverage of the 2010 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is being recognized with Farm Industry News’ FinOvation Award for New Holland’s BB9000 Series large square balers at this year’s show. I caught up with …
What’s New at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Hello from the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky! Cindy is off to Florida, and I’m going to be here at NFMS for a couple of days covering events. Just a few minutes after I got into the airport, I was able to find my way to the Louisville Convention and Expo …
PIC Shows How Environment Affects Performance
One of the most interesting sessions at the recent PIC Farm Manager Boot Camp in Danville, Indiana was the one entitled “Environmental Requirements for Optimum Wean Finish Performance.” Ron Rush, who works in health and technical services for PIC, talked to the group of hog farm managers about the importance of the environment … the buildings… that they’ll be raising …
PIC Helps Managers Figure Out What Went Wrong
As anybody who has ever raised hogs knows, sometimes you lose some pigs. It’s a fact of life in the business, and while sometimes the reason for losses are obvious, many times you just don’t know and just write it off to things happen. But what if you could find out more about why you lost that pig so you …
PIC Provides Farm Manager Boot Camp
OK, so it’s not exactly how I remember boot camp from my days in the Air Force, but our good friends at PIC give out a lot of excellent information in their one-day seminars to help hog farm managers (without anyone making you drop and give them 20 push-ups!). I recently attended the session they put on in Danville, Indiana, …