The U.S. Rice Federation hopes a grand prize of $3,500 will entice high school students to join the campaign to promote rice for National Rice Month. The contest will dole out a total of $10,000 in scholarship money. Scholarship opportunities await high school students in rice-growing communities as they head back to school. September is National Rice Month, and the …
Harvest Labor Weekend
This is what I saw a lot of coming home from the Farm Progress Show and then again today when I was out in the field. It’s perfect weather to be out in the field so I’m sure this is going to be a busy weekend of harvesting. While I was out today there was a kind of infrequent breeze …
Monsanto’s Road Map to Success
“See the next decade of biotechnology products.” That’s what Monsanto says its Technology Showcase Tour: The Road Map to Success will demonstrate to farmers in Progress City, IL. The gene optimization, desired trait characteristics and advanced product development that Monsanto promotes with its products is all on display in a live side-by-side comparison of crops with Monsanto products and crops …
Tour de Dow
Dow AgroSciences says it’s planning for the future of biotechnology. But, the company is quick to point out a host of innovative technologies available now for improving crop yields. Dow AgroSciences says its Herculex family of traits offers the broadest protection when comes to safeguarding crops against most insects, both above ground and below ground, in corn. Representatives add that …
DTN, Progressive Farmer To Hold Inaugural Ag Summit
Farmers and growers will have the opportunity to talk business, politics and more at the first-annual DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit. Mark your calendars for early December. DTN and The Progressive Farmer magazine announced today that it will host its first agriculture summit on December 5-7 at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. The 2007 DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit, “Grow …
Growers Attend IFT Food Expo on ADM
Archer Daniels Midland Company sponsored a growers delegation at the Institute of Food Technologisit Food Expo in Chicago. ADM says their sponsorship was meant to highlight the critical role grower-suppliers play in ensuring food quality and safety. To recognize the critical role suppliers play in ensuring food quality and safety, Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) sponsored a visiting grower …
Beauty of North Dakota Gets National Spotlight
You can’t really argue that the waving wheat in the photo isn’t a beautiful amber color just like the national song talks about. That’s why North Dakota was featured on NBC’s Today Show, when the show ran a feature on the beauty of America. Early this morning, North Dakota producer Jay Elkin was featured in a story produced by the …
Farm Aid To Host Star-Studded Concert
It will be a concert for all music fans with a myriad of tastes… to help promote the farm fresh tastes of produce from American family farms. Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival is the organization’s first-ever concert in New York. Artists representing a variety of genres are slated to join Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John …
Dry Corn to the Right Dry Beans to the Left
It’s getting a little dry here in parts of the midwest. This is corn on the right side of me as I was out and about this morning. It’s not the worst that I saw when I was driving back from Louisville, KY on Wednesday though. I think the worst was in Illinois. I’m sure it’s not a good feeling …
Meet the Hubers
The farm tour at the Huber Winery Opening Reception was a little more sedate than the one we went on Saturday. Although I’m sure the end result for some people might have been the same (at least from what I’ve heard). Me, I was a good boy going home on the early bus. While we were at the Huber farm …