New Holland has expanded the True Blue Salute program in honor of the bravery, service, and sacrifice of America and Canada’s military and first responders. This program provides equipment incentives to all current and retired United States and Canadian military and first responders. “New Holland is honored to show our appreciation and support of our military and first responders through …
Summer Interns Begin Work at GROWMARK
57 college students are beginning summer internships with GROWMARK. Participants will learn accounting, marketing, communications, and product and service-related activities at cooperatives in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ontario. Orientation was held in May, June will mark a business tour, and project presentations will take place in August. The interns hail from: Delaware Valley College Illinois State University Illinois Wesleyan …
Bipartisan Bill To Protect Ag in Commodities Markets
U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., introduced bipartisan legislation to protect farmers and ranchers from a reinterpretation of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The regulation currently allows sufficient time to send payments to their Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and will repeal a requirement that impedes international data sharing. “As the Senate Agriculture Committee works to reauthorize the …
FFA Winners Tour Costa Rica’s Agriculture
48 national FFA award winners will depart for ten days in Costa Rica this summer. The trip will educate participants about the global agricultural industry and the opportunities and challenges of international trade. The country offers some of the most diverse agriculture and geography in the world, while being small enough to all students to gain a complete ag …
New Holland Cycles for Farmland Preservation
What does cycling have to do with preserving farmland? This summer New Holland Agriculture is sponsoring Pedal to Preserve and Farm to Fork Fondo, two events designed to benefit farmland preservation. Pedal to Preserve is an opportunity for novice and experienced cyclists alike to bike through Lancaster County’s countryside. The ride features more than 75 small family farms that have …
Corn Farmers Coalition Seeks New Opportunities
Riders on D.C.’s Metro have been looking at the faces of farmers for seven summers. This summer they will likely view fragrance ads and real estate commercials, as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority rejected the Corn Farmers Coalition‘s annual campaign. Ads already in place were recently removed following the decision of the board to disallow all “issues and advocacy” …
Mahindra Sponsors Urban Ag in Detroit
Detroit, MI will be the recipient of $100,000 to grow urban farming initiatives in the city. The benefactors of the gift are Mahindra USA, the world’s number one-selling tractor brand based on volume, and Mahindra North American Technical Center based in Troy, MI. The money is expanding on the current Urban Ag Scholarship Initiative and will be split between five …
Agri-Pulse is Media Partner for “Drive Across America”
American Agri-Women is celebrating 40 years of advocating for agriculture with a five-month tour, “Drive Across America.” Partnering with them for this event is Agri-Pulse Communications. “Our past and our future are based on advocating for agriculture and presenting the truth about production agriculture to the public, policy makers and the media. We are so pleased to have a media …
American Agri-Women Question Land Management
American Agri-Women raise an interesting question; who owns Nevada? This example is one of the issues the nation’s largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women is posing at their 22nd annual Symposium. Held at the USDA building in Washington D.C., the event is scheduled for June 8th from 9-11 a.m. The symposium, “Divided Lands: Federal vs. State Management in …
Soy Based Paint Can Shrink Your Footprint
Two parking lots in New Jersey are being refreshed, with the first waterborne traffic paint made with soybean oil. The Medford Township school system continuously searches for sustainable initiatives, which lead the director of operations and technology, Joe Bilkuck, to BioStripe. This soy-biobased traffic paint is being tested on two of the district’s parking lots, because in addition to being …