MyBeefCheckoff.com now has a mobile site offering all of the great information you’ve grown accustomed to on the full site. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed six members and alternates to serve on the National Honey Board. SAVE THE DATE – 24th Annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference Coming to La Crosse, WI, Feb. 21–23, 2013. The first results from a …

Corporate and individual contributions to the National FFA Foundation in 2012 to support national FFA programs and agricultural education climbed to more than $16.2 million. Submit your nominee for the Agricultural Business Council’s 2013 Jay B. Dillingham Award for Agricultural Leadership and Excellence by Dec. 10, 2012 to Erica Venancio at erica.venancio@agbizkc.com. Swanson Russell announces the addition of Annette Bruch, …

What does the future hold for precision agriculture? How will Ag Leader contribute to it? No need to seek out a fortuneteller. Al Myers, the founder and President of Ag Leader Technology, has a clear vision. And here’s what he has to say about it: Where do you see the future of precision agriculture headed? AM: Precision products and practices …

Huntington Bank appointed Peter Arendt managing director, food and agribusiness banking. President Barack Obama has designated Dr. Jill Long Thompson as Chair and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration. Analysis of the genome of one of world’s ‘big three’ food crops provides clues to better breeding, higher yield. The United Fresh Produce Association will honor Frieda Rapoport Caplan with its …

Wheat Growers and Curry Seed announced that they have formed a strategic alliance enabling Wheat Growers to be the exclusive dealer of Curry brand seed in more than 30 counties of central South Dakota and 16 counties in southern North Dakota. Intermountain Farmers Association has become an Alltech Official Partner of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 in Normandy. …

Part way through the summer, irrigating using surface water was put to a halt because of the drought. For more than 1,100 farmers in Nebraska, that meant no more water to their crops. The saving grace for our state was that the marching orders affected only irrigation systems that used surface water, mostly rivers and creeks, and not systems that …

I have made it to my first American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers Annual Meeting, along with the Agronomics conference. AgroNomics – Vision 2013 to be held October 29 – November 2, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana offers interaction opportunities for investors and fund managers together with the land management, property valuation, agricultural consulting, and rural land & property …

Our son “politely” tells all owners of red combines or tractors that they’re going to break down and that he likes green ones. He also has to ask every pickup owner if it has 4-wheel drive because “daddy’s does”. To a 4-year-old, life is one big competition. He’s also a Chevy man. This past weekend, my husband went to a …

I love harvest. I love October. I love the changing of the leaves. I love cooler weather. However I do not love how dry the landscape looks once all those beautiful things are gone. Until spring rolls around again, there’s a certain lack of color that just seems dull and dare I say depressing? A week ago, my son and …

I had an English teacher tell me one time: “There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that read and those that don’t.” She then went on to explain that people who liked to read would read anything – the ingredients label on a candy bar before they ate it, knowing that it wasn’t good for them in …