AgWired

Hey farmers. If you’re a Philom Bios customer now you can enter a contest to win one of 10 prizes of $2,500 as part of Philom Bios’ 25th Anniversary prize sweepstakes. Simply log on to www.philombios.com to enter. It’s their way of saying thank you. They also just opened a new facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Don Atchison, Mayor of Saskatoon cut the ribbon along with Calvin Sonntag, President/CEO of Philom Bios and John Cross,
Chairman of the Board in front of hundreds of customers, employees, stakeholders, and shareholders. The $6.3 million facility will house Philom Bios’ manufacturing, research, agronomy, marketing and corporate employees, and will allow greater integration of the company’s activities under one roof as they continue with their on-going expansion.

BASF announced a new Clearfield technology approval today.

BASF Agricultural Products has received approval from Canadian regulatory authorities that supports the introduction of the CLEARFIELD Production System into confectionary sunflowers in the United States. This latest approval is the final step in a three-step process for CLEARFIELD sunflowers which included approvals by U.S. regulatory authorities of CLEARFIELD sunflower oil for food use in 2003 and approval of LEARFIELD sunflower meal for feed use in the U.S. earlier in 2005.

BASF also made an announcement about its stewardship of Clearfield technology regarding a case with Louisiana rice growers.

BASF continues its commitment to protecting the effectiveness of its CLEARFIELD Production System, as demonstrated by the pursuit of a stewardship case involving rice growers in Louisiana. BASF successfully obtained a preliminary injunction against growers in Kinder, Louisiana, who admitted to farming over 700
acres of CLEARFIELD CL-161 rice without proper authorization from BASF. The order, which was obtained from the U.S. District Court in Louisiana, prevents the growers from planting or selling the harvested rice and from otherwise infringing BASF intellectual property rights in the CLEARFIELD rice technology. “This injunction was necessary to preserve the integrity and viability of the CLEARFIELD Production System for the overwhelming majority of rice farmers who have appropriately – and legally – used the technology,” said Jason Ward, CLEARFIELD market manager with BASF.

Here’s a project that doesn’t smell, literally. What do you do with what hogs do anyway? GRRO has a solution and they’ve obtained help from USDA to develop and market it.

Global Resource Recovery Organization, Inc. (GRRO) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a formal agreement with Farm Pilot Coordination, Inc. (FPPC) in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”) to form a new Joint Venture company to commercialize the GRRO Tempest Dying Technology in all Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) in North America. The new joint venture will be a Florida Limited Liability company with all of its operations located in Eldora, IA. The first project in swine manure is well underway and will be located in Hardin County. A new 2400 Head Swine confinement will be built using state-of-the art technologies that will capture at least 75% of the nutrients from the AFO and eliminate all liquid manure on a daily basis. There will be no on site long term storage of liquid manure with this new process. Daily production of manure is gathered and processed with the end product being an easily handled dry fertilizer product that can be stored and used when needed by the farmer.

The hogs make a mess and when all’s said and done you’ve got something to store and use when you need. Neat.

This is a big announcement. It’s “let’s get along time” in the agribusiness world.

Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, and Monsanto Company announced today a global business agreement that establishes cooperative arrangements that will give farmers new technology options and more choice in the products to meet their needs.

There’s a lot of information about this agreement available on either website. Powerpoint slides are available on the Monsanto website, under “Investor Information.”