The Root Beer Float Mobile is set up at the O.H. Kruse Grand Opportunities event. I actually had an orange soda float. Maybe I’ll do root beer later. The eye catching orange truck is a completely re-built 1947 DIVCO (Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company) milk truck. On hand to make our floats is Jill Cary. Her parents started several A&W stores …
ADM at O.H. Kruse Buying Showcase
During the O.H. Kruse Grand Opportunities event the company showcases its products in a Buying Showcase. This trade show also includes a number of companies who work with the Kruse as I’ve heard several call it. O.H. Kruse either uses their products or represents them in the western U.S. marketplace. One of those companies is ADM. I visited with Scott …
The O.H. Kruse Family Get Together
O.H. Kruse Grain & Milling is a family business and Ashli Cole, Marketing/Customer Care Mgr., says that they consider all of their customers part of the Kruse family. I spoke with her at the start of today’s Grand Opportunities event to get a preview of what attendees will find. During the day we have the Buying Show which is located …
Customer Appreciation with O.H. Kruse
Hello and welcome to the 2013 O.H. Kruse Grain & Milling Customer Appreciation Day. There are some “Grand Opportunities” awaiting the attendees today and I’m going to let you know about them throughout the day. This is my second trip to Tulare, CA with O.H. Kruse. We’re located in the International Agri-Center once again. The O.H. Kruse story is a …
FAPRI: New Farm Bills Have a Lot in Common
Now that the House has named members for a farm bill conference committee and agreed to actually go to conference with the Senate, there is renewed hope that we may yet see a new five year farm bill. All they have to do now is work out the differences between the two versions. Pat Westhoff, the Director of the Food …
21st Century Shovel Project Ending Soon!
If you would like to help Stephen Walden, CEO of Bosse Tools, meet his goal of raising $60,000 to bring to market the redesigned shovel, you have NINE days to make it happen! This project will only be funded if at least $60,000 is pledged by Wed., Oct. 23, at 7:55pm EDT. Bosse Tools is an ergonomic tool company that …
SMS Winter Training Dates are Announced!
Harvest is upon us and hopefully that means you are seeing the hard work that you’ve put in all season starting to pay off! As you watch the bushels on your yield monitor, do you question the factors that make some areas of the field more productive? Are you thinking about ways you can maximize profitability across all areas of …
Donate to South Dakota Rancher Relief Fund
South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and South Dakota Sheep Growers Association established the South Dakota Rancher Relief Fund Oct. 8, 2013 with the Black Hills Area Community Foundation to provide support and relief assistance to those in the agriculture industry impacted by the blizzard of Oct. 4-7, 2013. The fund will be administered by the South Dakota …
John Deere Dealer Perspective
Jeff Barnes, Greenway Equipment, a John Deere dealership, is their manager of farm technology. He says yesterday’s announcements from John Deere of their new Developer.Deere.com portal and the MyJohnDeere Data API is a big step for the company. I talked with him to get his perspective on what the company is doing. He says their dealership has been actively involved …
BASF Helping to Fight Weed Resistance Globally
Weed resistance is an increasing problem on a global scale, but BASF vice president for global research herbicides Jordi Tormo says the problem in the United States really stands out. “I would say it’s more spectacular because of the speed of the development of the resistance,” he said during an interview at the BASF global press conference in Germany. “It’s …