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Only one more FFA convention in Louisville, KY. Get a preview of what it will be like on FFA Live on RFD-TV

FFA Live! on RFDTV Announces Aug. 29 Show
INDIANAPOLIS – Mark your calendars now for the next FFA Live! show on RFD-TV. The show will run from 8-9p.m. eastern (7-8 p.m. central) on Monday, Aug. 29, and will have a special feature on Expedition Chesapeake—a 30 day, 355 mile on the water
journey through the Potomac River Basin ending at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Agriculture teacher Eric Fitzgerald and 16 of his students (all FFA members) from Turner Ashby High School in Rockingham County, Va., studied the connection between the rivers and the Chesapeake Bay and the critical role farmers can play in reducing pollution in our waterways when they are provided with tools and resources to do so. Eric and two students will share their experiences and some of the valuable scientific information they collected with the help of a probe supplied by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

National FFA officers Emily Horton and Jay Kelley will reveal plans for the 78th National FFA Convention, Oct. 26-29— the last convention in Louisville, Ky., before FFA makes the move to Indianapolis.

For more information contact William F. Stagg, 317-802-4243.

If you want to know the latest about the Indiana crop then you’ll want to be online August 12.

Brownfield Streams Indiana Crop Report at the State Fair
Indianapolis, Indiana August 1, 2005—Brownfield, America’s Ag News Source will stream a “live” Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service crop report briefing on Aug.12 at 9:00 a.m. in the Our Land Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
The briefing will cover the crop estimates released that day by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Discussing Indiana’s agricultural situation will be Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, who serves as Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development; Andy Miller, Director of Indiana Agriculture and Chris Hurt, Purdue Extension Economist. Dean Randy Woodson of Purdue Agriculture will be the moderator and Brownfield farm broadcaster Gary Truitt will host the event.
“The weather this summer has made crop yields very difficult to estimate. This will be the first official estimate of this year’s crop and will set the tone for the market for the rest of the marketing year,” said Truitt.
The event is open to the public and will also be carried live on the web by Brownfield. Producers who want to listen to the Webcast will find a link on the Brownfield homepage at www.brownfieldagnews.com.

For more information contact Lane McConnell: 573.556.1242 or Cyndi Young: 573.556.1229.

While people in some of the traditional media are still trying to hold on to the good old days DTN is working hard to transition to the future. I haven’t seen them publish a farmer media usage study and yet they’re moving forward. I used to work there so I know it’s not any easier for them to change than anyone else. They were the cutting edge of information delivery with the satellite-delivered weather, market and news data. But people need to be mobile. That was always one problem with the “old system.” You had to be there in front of the monitor to get it. Now you don’t!

DTN Launches Mobile Product
DTN Mobile™ provides real-time market information, weather and ag news via cell phone, SmartPhone or PDA

“DTN Mobile extends the great value our customers receive from DTN”, according to Robert Gordon, chief executive officer, DTN. “They can now access the time-critical information that they rely on each day while out in the field or away from the office”.

In addtion to DTN Mobile the company has also annouced several other new products including:

DTN Dairy™, the industry’s only source of comprehensive dairy-specific market, weather and news information available directly to customers with a single subscription.

For more information contact Sandi Scott.