Turkey is the second largest export market for U.S. cotton, but now that is being threatened by what the National Cotton Council (NCC) maintains are false allegations. The government of Turkey has claimed the United States dumped cotton into the Turkish market, injuring their domestic prices. They have now released their final decision, based on their investigation of the incident. …
AgriBank Insights Wins National Award
Last week the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) recognized some of the best work in agri-makerting. AgriBank was among those recognized with a first place in the company publications category. The Farm Credit Bank was highlighted for AgriBank Insights. You can find these reports on the AgriThought page of AgriBank.com. They offer information important to producers, including feature reporting, research, and in-depth analysis designed …
CommonGround Recognized at NAMA
The National Agri-Marketing Association recognized the advocacy group, CommonGround during their National Awards Ceremony. The group won first place in the Social Tactic category, as well as Best of Show- Digital and the first-ever NAMA Grand Champion award for their video, “Ask a Farmer.” Their newly redesigned website also won first place in the Website Directed to Consumers category. CommonGround …
DTN Offers Many Great Things at NAMA
DTN/The Progressive Farmer has been making a “latte” noise this week. To launch their newly redesigned website the team hosted not one, but two parties at the National Agri-Marketers Conference! The Morning Barista Coffee Lounge opened bright and early so attendees could sip caffeine while perusing www.dtnpf.com. The After Hours Dessert Lounge provided the night owls with something a little …
Marvin Kokes Steps Down as NAMA President
The National Agri-Marketing Association has kicked off its 2016 annual meeting and AgWired caught our first interview with Marvin Kokes, the outgoing President of NAMA. Kokes comes from the National Cattlemens Beef Association and looks forward to focusing his time and efforts there once again, but but believes NAMA is truly an amazing organization. The conference will feature some great …
Two North America Journalists Earn Global Award
Sarah Hill from Brookings, South Dakota, USA and Julienne Isaacs of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada have been honored as two of this year’s 2016 IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism Award winners. These representatives from North America competed with some of the best throughout the world and will now participate in the International Federation of Agricultural Jounralists (IFAJ) Congress. They will …
CIRB Graduates Inaugural Emerging Leaders
The Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau (CIRB) is celebrating the graduation of their first ever Emerging Leaders Program. The ceremony was held during the Spring Policy Conference and Fly-In. The class has spent more than year learning the necessary tools to become effective advocates for the next generation of crop insurance leaders. “Today, crop insurance is a centerpiece of the …
#ZimmieZebra is Zelfie Ready
#ZimmieZebra made it to her temporary home this weekend and jumped at the chance to stretch her legs after her long journey. Tomorrow Zimmie and I will make the trip to Kansas City for the 2016 Agri-Marketing Conference, but wanted to make sure she wasn’t camera shy and ready for the many Zelfies to come. Thankfully, she thoroughly enjoyed getting …
Chromatin Provides Relief to Growers Hit by Fire
The Anderson Creek Fire destroyed more than 400,000 and now Chromatin, Inc. is moving in to help farmers and ranchers. The company will be providing producers with seed that will rapidly feed livestock or cover the ground to prevent soil erosion. “We are saddened to hear of the tragic damage caused by this fire to crops, pastures and livestock in …
NRGene Selects St. Louis for U.S. Headquarters
GlobalSTL, the initiative of BioSTL focused on attracting high-growth international companies to St. Louis, announced that Israeli genomics company NRGene has selected St. Louis as the location of its U.S. headquarters. NRGene is the fourth company to move to St. Louis through the GlobalSTL initiative. NRGene develops advanced computational tools leveraging big data to identify genetic traits to improve yield, …