Wyffels Hybrids added a fourth region to its sales structure in Iowa, which covers 22 counties and three million corn acres in the southwest part of the state. By enhancing its resources in Iowa, Wyffels Hybrids can better provide dedicated service and support to existing corn grower customers throughout the state and attract more new customers. Bill Backhaus has been …

More than a dozen agricultural organizations are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to withdraw the conditional waiver granted to LightSquared in 2011 and modify the company’s satellite license to prohibit the building of a ground-based network. “We urge the FCC to adopt both proposals because of the overwhelming evidence that LightSquared’s proposed ground-based network would cause severe interference to …

This is the speed limit for the 8-mile stretch of highway that runs in front of our house. There are very few miles of road left in Nebraska with a 55 mph speed limit and unfortunately, there’s one out front of our house. I’d hate to count how many people have been pulled over for speeding in my grandparents’ driveway, …

I couldn’t agree more with this opening statement of a post on Nielsen Wire about some new research results. It seems to me like many agrimarketers are solely focused on social networks as opposed to creating their own buzz via a well managed blog. Could it be because a good blog requires more effort? All too often new blogs I …

I often wonder … how many minutes each day do I actually spend staring straight out my car windshield versus staring at the landscape around me? Then I realize how dangerous that thought is. But if I didn’t spend time taking in the beauty of what’s around me every day, I’d miss skies like this. Disclaimer: I adjusted the color …

Four feet tall. Do you think my flowers will grow to be 4-feet tall in this old ice cream pail? It was the only package of flower seeds I had around when I found myself in need of an activity to entertain four children under the age of 10 and three of them were girls. So we dug in the …

In the coming month, the space by our east window (next to the dining room table, mind you) is going to look and feel like a greenhouse, complete with seed starters and the aroma of freshly watered planting soil. Yes, we went to the store this weekend and bought a variety of seeds: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, melons, broccoli, …

Even though I work from home, I still elect to take our son to daycare for a number of reasons. First, so I can actually GET work done and not have to entertain all day; second, so he gets social interaction with other children his age; and third, so he appreciates coming home at night to mommy and daddy. This …

I wonder how many people are spending a romantic St. Valentine’s Day out at World Ag Expo. I was not there but got a photo courtesy of one of the live web cams. This is a show I’ve always wanted to attend but it just never seems to work out for one reason or another. The 45th annual World Ag …

That’s kind of how I feel about today – Valentine’s Day. Not that I don’t tell the people I love that I love them and not that I don’t believe in love, it’s just over-priced, over-hyped and over-rated if you ask me. I instructed my husband if he was thinking of getting me flowers to save his money and buy …