AgGateway Latin America Outreach

Cindy Zimmerman

AgGateway Regional Director Jose Alexandre Loyola represented the Latin America region at the AgGateway North America Annual Meeting last month in Austin, Texas. Loyola, who is from Brazil, has been regional director since 2017. “Most of the people that participate in AgGateway in Latin America, especially in Brazil, they see a lot of value in the group that we form, …

AgGateway, Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio, cover crops, data, International

Climate-Smart Soybeans Mark Milestone in U.S. Market

Cindy Zimmerman

An Illinois-based processing facility successfully completed its first run of climate-smart soybeans this fall, marking a significant milestone in the initiative to bring climate-smart commodities to market. These food-grade soybeans are now poised to enter the soy milk market as part of the Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain project (Transform F2C) leads the effort, funded by a U.S. …

Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, carbon, climate, Sustainability, USDA

Agri-Pulse Adds International Trade Editor

Cindy Zimmerman

Agribusiness digital media company Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce the addition of Oliver Ward to the editorial team as international trade editor. Ward joins Agri-Pulse from Inside U.S. Trade, a print and digital trade publication that is part of the Inside Washington Publishers news service. Prior to that, he was a digital content producer at the Peterson Institute for International …

Agri-Pulse, Agribusiness, people

AgGateway Welcomes 10 Students to Conference

Cindy Zimmerman

AgGateway’s 2024 Gateway to Ag Careers Program is pleased to welcome ten college students to the Annual Conference this week in Austin, TX. Supported by AgCIO Roundtable, the Premier Sponsor, with additional support from Syngenta, the Gateway to Ag Careers program offers students the opportunity to attend learning sessions and network with attendees at the AgGateway Annual Conference while making …

AgGateway, Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio, data, Precision Agriculture, regenerative ag, Syngenta

ZimmCast 736 – Syngenta Advancing Innovation

Chuck Zimmerman

Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this episode I am going to share some audio from the recent Syngenta Media Summit 2024 that was held in the new crop protection facility in Greensboro, NC. I am grateful for the opportunity to be with a group of agricultural journalists and have personal time with Syngenta leadership. You’ll hear more about …

Agribusiness, Audio, Crop Protection, Media, Syngenta, ZimmCast

Syngenta Crop Protection and Taranis Announce Partnership

Cindy Zimmerman

Syngenta Crop Protection and Taranis today announced a multi-year collaboration to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven agronomic productivity and conservation-focused innovation to agricultural retail partners in the US. Over the next three years, the partnership will focus on supporting ag retailers in the adoption of Taranis’ AI-powered agronomic platforms so retail partners can benefit from AI-derived leaf-level remote scouting insights and …

Agribusiness, Agronomy, AgWired Precision, AI, Precision Agriculture, Syngenta

ZimmCast 735 – Preview of 2024 NAMA Fall Conference

Chuck Zimmerman

Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. It’s time for the 2024 NAMA Fall Conference which will be held in Minneapolis, MN, October 14-16. The theme is “Fall Back” and you’ll hear why in my interview with Laura Rustmann, Director of Marketing and Sales, J.L. Farmakis, Inc. and Chair of the committee that is organizing the conference. BTW. You can register …

Agencies, Agribusiness, Audio, Media, NAMA, ZimmCast

AgGateway Annual in Austin

Cindy Zimmerman

Registration is underway for the 2024 AgGateway Annual Conference, November 11-13, at the Downright Austin Hotel in Austin, TX. This event combines real working sessions on advanced initiatives, meet-ups and committee gatherings to discuss new and longer-term projects, and a host of conference sessions designed to create discussion and infuse enthusiasm for the AgGateway Mission. Along with learning and working …

ag retailers, AgGateway, Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio

NK Offers 12 New Corn Hybrids for 2025

Cindy Zimmerman

With a decade of groundbreaking investments, NK is bringing stronger corn genetics and herbicide traits combined with enhanced testing to the farm faster than ever with the new 2025 NK Corn Hybrids. NK corn product manager Matt Dolch was at the recent Farm Progress Show to talk about the new hybrids. “We have an excellent new lineup here for 2025. …

Agribusiness, Audio, Corn, Farm Progress Show, Seed, Syngenta

ZimmCast 734 – Interviews from FPS

Chuck Zimmerman

I’ve lost count of how many Farm Progress Shows I have attended but it’s a lot. This year in Boone, IA we had great weather and that’s not always the case. But it was also an opportunity to see friends as well as clients. I was only on site for Tuesday and half of Wednesday but I recorded 26 interviews …

Agribusiness, Audio, Farm Progress Show, ZimmCast