Vote In Alpharma Student Video Contest

Chuck Zimmerman

If you haven’t voted for your favorite video in the Alpharma, Reach Teach Learn Student Video Contest, now’s the time. Voting began on Monday, November 30 and goes through December 28, 2009. Earlier this fall ag students from across the country submitted short video clips depicting anything related to agriculture and food production. Students received a $25 gift card for …

Agribusiness

BIVI Vetera Protecting The Horse

Chuck Zimmerman

The equine group at Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica has produced a short video to help promote it’s new Vetera virus protection. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI), announces the introduction of its Vetera™ West Nile virus family of vaccines, the only vaccines containing the North American Equine E159™ 2005 horse isolate representative of the virus that is most likely to infect horses …

Agribusiness, Boehringer Ingelheim, Horses, Wackos

Ag Credit Will Get Tighter

Amanda Nolz

Looking at the dollars and cents of the agriculture industry today can be tough at times. With sky-rocketing input costs and low-profit margins, producing food has become an even more challenging “game” than ever before. Because of the struggling economy and decreased consumer spending, there are less dollars to go around, and that means ag lenders are having to tighten …

Agribusiness

Fluidigm System Work Flow

Chuck Zimmerman

In this latest edition of the stories about Fluidigm Corporation you’ll get to meet Amy Hamilton, Technical Support Specialist. Amy works in the lab at Fluidigm headquarters. She walks us through a workflow of the Fluidigm System. As you’ll see in the video, the size and scale of equipment needed for the Fluidigm System to conduct many different simultaneous samples …

Agribusiness, Biotech, Research

Broadhead + CO Agency For BIVI Cattle Brands

Chuck Zimmerman

Broadhead + CO has landed the cattle brands business for Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica beginning immediately. Broadhead + Co will provide Boehringer Ingelheim with marketing communications strategy for both dairy and beef industry animal health products, including those newly acquired from Fort Dodge Animal Health, such as Pyramid, Triangle, Cydectin, Today and Tomorrow. These products strengthen the Boehringer Ingelheim biologicals product …

Agencies, Agribusiness

Overview of Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica

Chuck Zimmerman

To get a complete overview of Boehringer Inghelheim Vetmedica Dr. Steve Peterson, DVM, Senior Manager, spoke to the media gathered in St. Joseph, MO recently. Steve started out his presentation showing us a Flomax commercial as an example of how diverse the parent company is. BI is a family owned company that was started in 1885 and he calls the …

Agribusiness, Animal Health, Audio, Boehringer Ingelheim

What’s New From CaseIH

Chuck Zimmerman

Tom Dean is the Marketing Manager for high horsepower tractors at Case IH (seen here in his NAFB Trade Talk booth). He says those are classified as 100+ horsepower. He says what’s new is the Magnum CVT Line. CVT stands for Continuously Variable Transmission. He says the tractors are just now shipping this month. They’re very simple to operate for …

Agribusiness, Audio, Equipment, NAFB, Tractor

More Cattle Market For Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica

Chuck Zimmerman

It sure sounds like Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica did very well in the cattle market with their acquisition of a portion of Ft. Dodge Animal Health. To tell us about is Tim Bettington, Director Livestock Marketing. He says that although BIVI has been a long standing player in the cattle business it has only been in certain segments like the stocker …

Agribusiness, Animal Health, Audio, Boehringer Ingelheim