New Holland’s Operation Blue Force is underway in California. This is a series of training events for dealers. They get out on the farm to ride and learn about what’s new from New Holland. Here’s Mark Hooper, Director of Marketing in North America for New Holland, explaining what we’ll be doing today. I’m part of a group of ag media …
FMC Tackles Weeds in the South
FMC representatives were eager to visit with attendees of the recent Mid-South Farm & Gin Show in Memphis, TN. Chuck spoke with Rusty Mitchell during the event about some of their products corn and soybean growers across the South can and should take advantage of. “We’ve got a couple of new products that we have available for both corn and …
Bayer Panel Addresses Water Security
What the world needs most is water – but beer is pretty important too! So water security was one of the issues addressed during a panel at the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues forum last week in San Antonio, and beer was a big part of the discussion. The panelists included (left to right) Dr. Marco Ugarte with MillerCoors, Gary Beck …
FMC Shares Cotton Products to Growers
While in the FMC exhibit at the recent Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, Chuck spoke with Don Johnson and Rusty Mitchell about some new products cotton growers can take advantage of. Rusty shared how proud they are of their newest cotton harvest aid for cotton growers. “We have Display, our cotton defoliation product, that we launched year. We had very …
Exciting Opportunities in Agriculture
Just what does the world want from us? Sounds like a lot more food. This theme was consistently brought up in a lot of sessions during the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum last week. One of our opening speakers was David Hollinrake, vice president, ACO Marketing, Bayer CropScience LP. He told me, “The main theme of this week was really …
Nominations Open for Social Media Farmer of the Year
ZimmComm New Media is proud to announce sponsorship of the Social Media Farmer of the Year Award. The award program is being launched today by Food Nutrition & Science. The new award recognizes farmers who have incorporated social media, digital media and internet strategies to achieve their business objectives including growing revenue, sharing information for more effective farming practices, and …
Operation Blue Force with New Holland
The agriblogging highway is taking me to Bakersfield, CA this week to participate in Operation Blue Force. This is a New Holland training experience for dealers and on Wednesday some of us in ag media will get our turn to practice driving some new equipment. We’ll head out to a farm early in the morning and spend the day rotating …
Living Without Regrets: Managing Weed Resistance
It seems like a pretty common sense idea in weed management: cleaner soybean fields will equal better yields when harvest time comes around. But Bryan Young, a professor of weed science from Purdue University who conducted the BASF-sponsored learning session, “Clean Fields, High Yields: The Keys to Solving Your Weed Problems in 2014,” at Commodity Classic told the farmers attending …
BASF Spotlights Future of Farming
Over 7,000 people had the opportunity to visit the BASF Crop Protection USA booth at the Commodity Classic to learn more about the future of farming – by video and through the eyes of children. The newest video from BASF, featuring fun facts about how far the industry has progressed and how we must advance in order to meet the …
Farm & Gin Show Puppy Giveaway 2-Time Winner
What are the chances that you would win a puppy drawing two years in a row? That’s what happened to Louanna Garrett, Seneasha Farms, Goodman, Miss., yesterday here at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show. She’s pictured with Jimmy McMahan, Sur-Shot Retrievers, Covington, Tenn. and his partner. I interviewed Louanna and Jimmy afterward. I also met and interviewed a previous …