SXSW Eco® is a conference that celebrates the power of design, technology and business to drive global change. They recently announced their final keynote speaker for the 2015 conference as Isha Datar, CEO of New Harvest. Datar’s area of interest is accelerating breakthroughs in cellular agriculture. Currently New Harvest is focused on making animal products without animals. “SXSW Eco is about …
DEKALB Logo Commemorated
The famous “winged ear” logo of DEKALB® corn first made its debut eighty years ago and has become of the most widely-recongized symbols in agriculture. The symbol was launched in 1935 with the slogan, “DeKalb Quality Hybrids Will Be Your Mortgage Lifter.” Now the logo will be commemorated with placement of an Illinois state historical marker at Memorial Park in DeKalb, …
Grower Insight on Plant Sap Analysis
New technologies are breaking ground all around us in the agriculture community. And that is what first attracted Dan Davidson to Crop Health Labs (CHL) Plant Sap Analysis. Dan is an agronomist, farmer and now consultant for CHL. Plant Sap Analysis is basically a blood test for plants that detects nutrient deficiencies three to four weeks sooner than traditional tissue …
EDF to Help Reduce Emissions from Ag
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and partners have been awarded a $960,000 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) from the USDA to help almond and corn farmers increase fertilizer use efficiency, improve soil health, reduce nitrous oxide emissions, and expand the potential of fertilizer protocols to generate carbon credits from agriculture. “This project will demonstrate how growers implementing enhanced nitrogen management processes …
AgLink Creates MentorBoard
AgLink, an agricultural networking website that promotes collaboration, has launched their “Build the Bench” mentoring campaign. Named the MentorBoard, the site was designed to connect ag veterans to students and young professionals to encourage the creation of mentor/mentoree relationships. Also in the works is a collaboration with CSU Fresno to establish a scholarship for students taking advantage of this program. The …
Heroes Workshop at New Holland Pavilion
Here are the happy, smiling faces of the farmer “Heroes” and bloggers who have gathered together in Expo Milano 2015, the current World’s Fair. You’re going to get to meet the Heroes in the next week or so since Cindy and I are here and will be conducting interviews with them as we have time. Right now we’re in a …
Alltech Young Scientist’s Now Hear “You’re Hired”
Beginning in 2016, the annual Alltech Young Scientist program, the world’s largest university-level competition in agriscience, will offer fully-funded Ph.D. and post-doctorate positions to the global undergraduate and graduate winners along with the award and cash prizes. “The Alltech Young Scientist program has uncovered some of the best and brightest emerging research talent in agriscience, and Alltech wants these leaders …
Going to Meet the New Holland Heroes
After visiting Expo Milano 2015 earlier this year I now have the opportunity to take Cindy with me and meet the Heroes. The Heroes in New Holland’s Seeds of Life Series. It is a story telling project about the heroes who feed us all. Our journey starts today with flights to Milano. We’ll have our get together at the New …
NAMA Honors Professional Development Winners
National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) recognizes leaders from each of three fields; marketing communications, sales and public relations. They are pleased to announce the 2105 Professional Development Award winners. The 2015 Marketing Communications award recipient is Christine Hart-Nieland, Senior Account Manager at Brighton Agency. A veteran of nearly 25 years, today Chris is on the Brighton Ag Leadership team and directs …
Guardian Sprayer Displays Impress at FPS
The New Holland team was busy showing off some exciting new products at their Farm Progress Show booth this year, especially after the company’s acquisition of the precision spraying equipment manufacturer Miller-St. Nazianz, Inc last December. The first thing customers saw as they walked up to the booth was an impressive 135 foot Guardian Boom Sprayer that stretched across the …