Doug Vail is the new Sales & Marketing leader for Mycogen Seeds according to parent company, Dow AgroSciences.
Green Tractors At This Dairy Farm
I thought this would make Barry Nelson happy at John Deere.
The Norwegian dairy farmer I interviewed today made a point of making sure I knew he exclusively uses John Deere tractors. He seemed pretty proud of that.
Monsanto Buying D&PL
I have to interrupt my coverage of the IFAJ Congress since this is a big story that just came to my inbox via news release. It looks like Monsanto is getting bigger into the seed business!
Ag Journalists Meet DeLaval
One of the exhibitors here at the IFAJ Congress in Hamar, Norway is DeLaval.
New Utility Tractors From Massey Ferguson
There’s some new tractors out in the Massey Ferguson line. It’s their 500 Series of utility tractors like this 596 model. They also received four AE50 awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. You can find out more on these stories on AgNewsWire.AgWired.com.
Nitragin Is Now EMD Crop Bioscience
Nitragin has a new name and a new logo. It’s now EMD Crop BioScience.
We Got Your DogEquine Products
I had to bring this to your attention just because of the name if for no other reason. DogEquine will certainly get your attention. I’ll let you create a mental picture before you read what it’s all about.
Updates To Monsanto Podcast Site
Speaking of podcasting. We were speaking about podcasting here in the office just now (really). Here’s an update to Monsanto’s Conversations About Plant Biotechnology. This very well done production now has a “total number of video segments with growers to more than 35 and representing nine of the 21 countries that grew biotech crops in 2005.” They’ve also updated the website.
An Event Blogging Story
In case you needed another reason to have ZimmComm New Media blog an event let’s look at a search engine result from this afternoon. I just did a Google search for the words, Syngenta Media Day. Of 256,000 results, AgWired was the #1 result above Syngenta’s own website! Not too shabby for a little old “new media” outlet, eh? We’re …
BASF Brings Joy To The Media
Moving up to gold sponsorship this year at the Agricultural Media Summit is BASF. Gold means sponsoring a lot of things. I interviewed BASF Communications Manager, Joy Watson, to learn what they’re doing and why.