By Harry Siemens – The Canadian International Grains Institute reports buyers of Canadian grain, both international and domestic, are expressing concern over increasing costs. With the North American ethanol industry growing so rapidly, the grains industry has found it difficult to keep up with demand for both grain for fuel and grain for livestock. CIGI Director of Feed, Dr. Rex …
Harry Siemens from Canada is Back with his observations
Harry Siemens – I’m so happy to be back posting to this website and work with Chuck Zimmerman. It’s been busy working with the my own website www.SiemensSays.Com and getting the number of people reading it into real positive numbers. I’m from Canada, but live only ten minutes from the North Dakota border in Winkler, Manitoba. This has always given …
World Trade Organization Podcasting
It looks like the World Trade Organization is podcasting. Here’s a notice I received that pointed to it with this episode being a 17 minute press conference on the following. FARM TALKS CHAIR SEES REAL NEGOTIATION IN COMMENTS ON TEXT – Members’ comments on his “challenges paper” showed they were starting to negotiate the content rather than rejecting it, Ambassador …
Address By Mariann Fischer Boel, EU Ag Commissioner
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development for the European Economic Union is Mariann Fischer Boel. She was the keynote speaker on the program today here at the World Agricultural Forum. You can listen to her speech here while she’s finishing up with questions and answers. In her talk she tries to clear up misconceptions about farmers, farming and the …
Flowers From Columbia
The flower man from Columbia is Ernesto Velez, Columbian Association of Flower Exporters. He gave us a presentation at our evening reception at the World Agricultural Forum here this evening. He said that there was a 90+% chance that the dozen carnations I bought Cindy on Sunday came from Columbia. If you’d like to learn about where a major source …
Sunset in St. Louis
It is definitely the end of the day here in St. Louis at the World Agricultural Forum. We had a very nice reception. Just check out the photo album. The top of the hotel has a very nice outside area from which we had a good view of the city and the sunset. The best part was the ice sculpture …
Rich Keller On The Job
One of the people covering the World Agricultural Forum is Rich Keller. Rich is the editor of AgProfessional and AgLender, Vance Publishing. I think he dared me to take his picture as he was enjoying a big soft pretzel on a break. I’m sure there are some dares I won’t take but it’s nice to see Rich in action. It’s …
Bunge North America CEO Wants Us To Think Global
The President and CEO of Bunge North America is Carl Hausmann. He was part of a panel today at the World Agricultural Forum that addressed the needs of food, fuel, fiber and water. I interviewed Carl after the session and asked what he thought one of the main concerns was that people expressed here. He says that when it comes …
WAF President Sees Ag As Economic Engine For Growth
The president of the World Agricultural Forum is Raymond Cesca, pictured here to the left of Leonard Guarraia. I interviewed Ray in between sessions earlier today about what he hopes to see accomplished. He says the theme of investing in agriculture is meant to be about more than just food and fuel but about successful business models and food production. …
Press Conference With Dr. Rajashekara Reddy
Another key figure on the program today at the World Agricultural Forum was the Hon. Dr. Rajashekara Reddy, Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh, India. He participated in the opening session then held a press conference this afternoon. I recorded his press conference for you. In it he was first asked about the price of seed in India and what he thought …