Prairie swine producers are applauding a Canadian Grain Commission plan to restructure western Canada’s wheat classes.
Last month, the Canadian Grain Commission unveiled plans to eliminate kernel visual distinguishability requirements on all classes of wheat except hard red spring and amber durum and introduce a new general purpose wheat class. The changes, set for August 2008, will clear the way for the registration of high yielding wheat varieties suited for feed or industrial uses such as ethanol, currently not allowed because they resemble milling wheats. Read More
I’m sure that these cattle industry professionals are all online checking the latest on AgWired.
It’s never too early to promote the next major event on the cattle industry calendar.
You never know who you’ll run into at a meeting like this.
One of the early meetings here at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference is the Beef Board Executive Committee.
The media room is supervised by Joe Schuele and Grace Webb. Here they are hard at work making sure the agribloggers and farm podcasters and other media types are getting what they need.
It sure doesn’t look very busy here at the registration desk in Reno.
The ZimmCast is coming to you this week from Reno, Nevada and the Cattle Industry Summer Conference. For your listening pleasure I interviewed the Chairman of the 
I asked Jay to explain what the Beef Board hopes to accomplish at this meeting. He says the budget is one of the main jobs they get done. Looking ahead to the new year he says that reaching young people with a message about beef is a priority since research has shown that their awareness level isn’t as high as adults.