AgWired

Now granted you might not need these if you’re in a climate controlled tractor cab with a surround sound music system. However, if you’re not and you want to listen to your weekly ZimmCast without noisy interruptions then ask Santa for a set of John Deere noise cancelling headphones. I know you’ve got your iPod or are getting one for Christmas so you can subscribe to the latest farm podcasts. You need to listen on some quality headphones.

These are a great gift idea. They will be sold at John Deere dealers and Lowe’s Home Improvement stores by January. I hope they beat that deadline so they can be a Christmas gift. They also should be showing up in the online John Deere gift shop. These “cans” are manufactured for John Deere by Outside the Box, Inc. and have a suggested retail price of $89.99.

Ideal for operating lawn mowers, agricultural equipment or other machinery, the headset features Outside the Box’s proprietary noise canceling algorithm for blocking ambient equipment noise. By identifying and silencing these distracting sounds, users can focus on the task at hand, helping ensure their safety. “Noise cancellation is a need for our customers who regularly operate equipment around the home or on-the-job,” said Dean Hamke, manager of licensing for John Deere. “Working with Outside the Box, we have created a unique headset that will benefit both the safety and enjoyment of our customers.”

Agrium has entered into a purchase agreement of Nu-Gro from Spectrum Brands. That’s a lot of logos so I’m only using the one that sent the release out.

Agrium will fund the purchase price of $86-million through existing lines of credit. The transaction is expected to close in January 2006 and is subject to regulatory approval. This acquisition provides Agrium with new products with strong, stable margins and is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings. Nu-Gro is a manufacturer of controlled release and professional turf products. Nu-Gro has strong customer relationships and a number of widely recognized brands. Agrium is acquiring the four production facilities that manufacture these products, as well as the Nu-Gro head office in Brantford, Ontario.

Dow AgroSciences intends to save us from “Pushed together, the most notorious noxious and invasive plants, like spotted knapweed, Canada thistle, musk thistle, yellow starthistle and tropical soda apple, would cut a swath about 80 miles wide from Los Angeles to New York City. Assuming a modest 10 percent annual expansion rate under current control and management practices, the band will widen to nearly 130 miles by 2010. ” We just can’t have this so they invented Milestone.

Fortunately, new Milestone™ herbicide gives farmers, ranchers and land and resource managers an effective option to help reverse the spread of this environmental pollution. Milestone brings a new molecule – aminopyralid – to invasive weed management and offers a better option for increasing forage production on grazing lands and restoring native plant communities and wildlife habitats. “Aminopyralid is a revolutionary molecule that brings several advances to noxious and invasive weed control,” says Bob Gordon, Dow AgroSciences senior marketing specialist. “It provides unparalleled results on some of the toughest-to-manage broadleaf weed species threatening rangeland, pasture and wilderness areas today.”

So, if you see something like this now you know what to do about it. In fact, this is Bull Thistle and I think I have some of it in my front yard.

Get yourself some Milestone and put an end to this “environmental pollution.”

Now that you’re stuffed on thanksgiving food for dinner what do you eat for breakfast? How about a Shmonster from Sheetz. There’s certainly no reason to provide nutrition information on this thing. Of course you’ve got to live in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio or North Carolina to get one.

Altoona, PA — Just when you thought it was safe to go out for breakfast, Sheetz – the stores that bring you Shmuffins, Shmiscuits and Shmagels – unleashes The Shmonster. With its double egg, double meat and double cheese, The Shmonster is everything you ever wanted in a breakfast sandwich – only a whole lot bigger, and only $1.00 more than the regular sized breakfast sandwiches. “This is not a breakfast sandwich for the faint of heart – we named it ‘Shmonster’ for a reason,” said Louie Sheetz, executive vice president of marketing, Sheetz, Inc. “This is a big sandwich that our customers tell us they want, loaded with double everything. So for those times when you want to sink your teeth into a monster of a breakfast sandwich, The Shmonster has arrived.”