What’s new in used farm equipment can be found on the redesigned John Deere MachineFinder. They’ve also announced a blog to go along with it. Interesting . . . John Deere announces that it has completely overhauled and redesigned its MachineFinder™ website (www.MachineFinder.com) from the ground up to make it easier for used equipment customers to more quickly find the …
Political Policy Dynamics Changing
The topic of the St. Louis Agribusiness Club lunch was “Policy Outlook for Agriculture as the Political Dynamics Begin to Change.” I think the political dynamics have already changed don’t you? Giving us his take on this was Thomas J. Erickson, Vice President, Government Affairs, Bunge North America. He says that since the incoming administration seems to have a lot …
Greased Lightning Awarded By AFBF and New Holland
As a gadget, I mean cool tools, kind of guy I thought this was a great invention idea and it won an award at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. Daniel Prough of LaGrange, Ind., earned the grand prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 90th annual meeting. Prough won a year’s use of …
Driving Green in 2009
Welcome to another week in the world of agribusiness. To kick it off I thought I’d share one of the latest video clips on the John Deere Drive Green Utility Tractor Show blog. I’m really having fun with this project and it’s going to keep me busy. I’ll be in Houston later this month as we kick off the “Year …
Dupont Broadleaf Weed Report
While surfing through the latest Farms.com Highlighter I found a story about a podcasting project they participated in with Dupont called the Broadleaf Weed Report. Welcome to the Broadleaf Weed Report – an informative series of podcasts covering a range of topics related to weed control in western Canada. The series provides insights into broadleaf weed control and agronomic practices …
Alpharma Student Video Contest Winners
The winning video in the Alpharma Student Video Contest was produced by the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’ll try to update this post with a video embed once it’s on YouTube. Alpharma Inc., Animal Health has announced that students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the $5,000 grand prize winner of the 2008 Alpharma Student Video Contest. Second …
Happy Holidays
What list of holiday greetings would be complete without an Elf Yourself? This one is from the Mark Jewell Family. Merry Christmas to all! As you can tell, we’ve all been having a bit too much fun this year! Blessings to you in 2009!
Happy Holidays
This time from NewCentury Marketing Services, Inc. Season’s Greetings Wishing you… every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. Thank you for being our customer. We look forward to continuing our relationship in the coming year. Holiday Hours Our Office will be closed Thursday December 25th, 2008 and Friday December 26th, 2008. Thursday January 1st, 2009 and …
Novus International Selects AdFarm as Agency of Record
AdFarm has been selected as global agency of record by Novus International for all integrated marketing communications services. These are two companies we have really enjoyed working with and hope for a successful 2009. Novus is a leading developer of animal health and nutrition programs for the poultry, pork, beef, dairy, aquaculture, and companion animal industries. With more than 25 …
AgRootsTV
I had a chance to look at Alltech’s AgRootsTV this morning and thought I’d make a few comments. I’m not really into doing full reviews here though unless you think I should. I’d like your feedback on that. Every time I do so I find that someone is not happy with me no matter what I say. On to AgRootsTV. …