First Weekly Toy Tractor Winner Announced

Chuck Zimmerman

Articulated Dump TruckThis just in from George Williams, The Deere Gear Store: The first winner of the weekly “Win a Toy Tractor Contest” is Walt Lehmann. Walt chose a 1 50 Scale 400D Articulated Dump Truck as his prize. Congratulations Walt!

Agribusiness, International

SRA Doing Comm Work For Ferry-Morse

Chuck Zimmerman

Swanson Russell AssociatesSwanson Russell Associates will be providing communications services for Ferry-Morse Seed Company (I love their slogan, “The hand that seeds the world”). That’s a division of Jiffy of the America’s, Inc.

Agencies, Agribusiness

John Deer Toy Tractor Contest

Chuck Zimmerman

Toy DeereAre you a toy tractor fan? If so, the Deere Gear Store is running a contest to give away a John Deere toy of your dreams each week for 4 weeks. It’s the “John Deere Toy Tractor a Week Contest.” You can enter every week for 4 Weeks.

Agribusiness, International

BASF Plant Science Debuts At BIO

Chuck Zimmerman

Dr. Hans KastBASF Plant Science held an end-of-day press conference to talk about their intent to dedicate more than $320 million over the next three years to develop biotechnological optimized crop plants.

Agribusiness, Audio, Biodiesel, Biotech, Ethanol, International

The Horse Clonerers

Chuck Zimmerman

Royal Blue Boon & CloneIf you’re not “horsey” then you might not have heard about the fact that a couple of horses were cloned recently and seem to be doing very well. They’re the result of a collaborative effort between Viagen, Inc. and Encore Genetics.

Agribusiness, Video