FMC Capture LFR & the Zone of Protection

Joanna Schroeder

capture_lfr_logoIt’s time to talk about the Zone of Protection offered by FMC’s Capture LFR Insecticide. I first heard this term from Gail Stratman, the Midwest technical sales lead for FMC who spoke with Cindy this week. FMC was one of our sponsors for the 2014 Farm Progress Show.

Capture LFR is an insecticide that is specifically designed to combine, or go in, a grower’s in furrow starter fertilizer and that provides an outstanding convenience for growers because he is able to apply is fertilizer and insecticide together in one pass,” explained Stratman. “As we know in this day in age, convenience is very important because growers have a lot to do in a very short period of time and especially in that planting window in the spring.”

Stratman also said this allows a grower to combine two operations into one tank, providing outstanding convenience and great control. Specifically, it helps control pests such as wireworm, cutworm, grubs, armyworm, seed corn maggot and common stalk borer. After several of years of work with Capture LFR, growers are seeing yield bump of 8-10 bushels per acre.

Stratman encourages growers who haven’t tried Capture LFR or an at plant in furrow insecticide treatment because a grower will see higher stand increases, greater plant health and higher yield potential.

To learn more about FMC Capture LFR Insecticide and the Zone of Protection listen to Cindy Zimmerman’s interview with Gail Stratman: Interview with Gail Stratman

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Agribusiness, Audio, Crop Protection, FMC, Insecticides

Growth Energy Displays a Model Ethanol Plant

Chuck Zimmerman

New Holland Supports EthanolAs part of New Holland’s commitment to being the Clean Energy Leader the company is very publicly and actively showing its support for biofuels like ethanol. During the Farm Progress Show not only could you find displays showing how and why the company supports home grown energy but there was also a special display on hand from Growth Energy. New Holland has partnered with Growth Energy for several years now.

You can find out about this display in this video I did with Kelly Manning, Vice President of Development. The educational display is under glass and is a fully built-to-scale ethanol plant showing how the feedstocks come into the plant and how the products made are then delivered from the plant.

2014 Farm Progress photo album.

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Agribusiness, Biofuels, Ethanol, Farm Progress Show, New Holland, Video

Corn Growers at Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

fps14-ncga1National Corn Growers Association officers were out in force at the 2014 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa this week.

Right out of the gate on the first day I met up with NCGA chairwoman Pam Johnson of Iowa, First VP Chip Bowling of Maryland, and President Martin Barbre of Illinois. It was a soggy start to the show on day one, while day two was lovely, and day three was a complete wash out.

gps14-ncga-chipChip stepped up to the podium in the media tent on day one to talk about our record corn crop in the fields this year. “We’re keeping a close eye on corn prices and are greatly concerned about efforts in Washington that may reduce or stifle demand for corn and raise the cost of production,” said Bowling, specifically noting the EPA’s proposal to lower volume obligations for ethanol under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Chip Bowling, NCGA comments on record corn crop Interview with Chip Bowling, NCGA

fps14-ncga-robNCGA soon-to-be Vice President Rob Elliott of Illinois sat down with us to talk about NCGA’s involvement in the American Ethanol NASCAR program which has had the popular racing platform running on 15% ethanol. “We’ve had about a four year program with Growth Energy and others to talk to 100 million NASCAR fans,” he said. “NASCAR in its three levels has run over six million miles (on E15) which is the same number of miles EPA drove to prove E15 to be a good fuel!”

Listen to our interview with Rob here: Interview with Rob Elliott, NCGA

2014 Farm Progress Show photo album

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Audio, Biofuels, Corn, Ethanol, Farm Progress Show, NCGA

Typo 2 Keyboard for iPhone 5/5S

Chuck Zimmerman

Typo 2I took the new Typo 2 Keyboard for iPhone 5/5S on the road with me this week. It has a very different feel to it and very needed changes on the keyboard. You can see the new features in the video below but one in particular makes a big difference between using version one.

The Typo 2 now has a keyboard button that lets you lock the keyboard. Now you can put it in your pocket or wherever and it won’t accidentally turn the phone on when you bump keys. The keys on this new keyboard are also shaped differently with less curves in them. I find it even easier to type on.

So, if you’ve been missing your old Blackberry keyboard and have an iPhone 5 or 5S here’s your alternative and it’s available for order now.

Typo 2 Demo from Typo Keyboards on Vimeo.

Equipment, Technology

Final Farm Progress Show Day Cancellation

Chuck Zimmerman

Farm Progress Show New HollandWell the show started to go on today. However, the weather finally deteriorated and the Farm Progress Show has just announced final day cancellation since lightning has entered the area. I got my notice via Twitter. The first two days were great and the ZimmComm Team got everything done that absolutely had to be done. We wish we could have had this last day to spend some time with a few more companies. We have lots of stories to continue telling you though.

As you might have guessed, my team assignment has been New Holland. I can’t thank them enough for their continued support which is now approaching a decade! But I also want to say a big thank you to all our sponsors both here on AgWired and also on Precision.AgWired.com. We couldn’t do it without you!

2014 Farm Progress photo album.

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Farm Progress Show

Home Grown

Melissa Sandfort

20140827_084030Summer is one of my favorite seasons (not that I have many to choose from!) for a number of reasons. I enjoy sitting in my new rocking chair on the front porch at dusk, watching for deer and turkey to walk through the yard. I love going to the lake and letting the kids play on the beach. I love firing up the grill and cooking burgers. And I LOVE the fresh fruit and vegetables.

This summer, my in-laws planted quite the garden and have been sharing the goodies with our family. I cooked, cut and froze more than 400 ears of sweet corn; we’ve had spaghetti squash, cucumbers galore, potatoes, cantaloupe and if I liked them, could’ve had tomatoes. If you can see in the picture, there’s a lighter colored cucumber on the top of the pile. These are Syrian cucumbers – the seeds came over from Lebanon with my grandfather and my grandmother (featured in AgWalk!) has kept the seeds growing over the years. She shared some with us this year and my father-in-law had success growing them. At the end of the season, you let one get big and save the seeds. The great thing about these cucumbers is that you don’t peel them, and no matter how big they get, they’re never bitter.

Gardens can be quite a bit of work and let me tell you, theirs is pristine. Straight rows, no weeds and some of the best cantaloupe I’ve ever eaten. I’m very thankful for their efforts…and maybe next year we’ll have a garden at our house! Until then, it’s cucumbers for late-night snacks.

Until we walk again …

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Zimfo Bytes

  • The National Sorghum Producers board of directors elected officers and appointed two new individuals to the board last week during its annual August board meeting.
  • DuPont announced construction on two state-of-the-art centers dedicated to developing and testing seed treatment formulations, applications and seed handling techniques in an important step toward bringing new solutions to growers.
  • Valmont Industries, Inc., a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and mechanized irrigation equipment for agriculture, announced that it has acquired a majority interest in South Dakota-based AgSense.
  • U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) is launching a new campaign entitled I AM FARMLAND geared to help support the expanded distribution of FARMLAND, a new feature length documentary about the lives of young farmers and ranchers.
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Jeff Simmons, Elanco, Accepts #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Chuck Zimmerman

Jeff Simmons ElancoAnother ALS IceBucketChallenge has been met. This time it’s Jeff Simmons, Elanco Animal Health. He received my challenge and he has answered it and issued his own.

Here’s what Jeff did:

Elanco president Jeff Simmons accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Chuck Zimmerman and Tyson president and CEO Donnie Smith, then challenges U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heifer International CEO Pierre Ferrari, Land O’Lakes CEO Chris Policinski and Mike Engler, CEO of Cactus Feeders. In addition, a $100 donation will be made to the ALS Association.

Now I’m just waiting on Kelly Schwalbe, BCS Communications to get back in touch with me since he’s my one remaining challenge! Thanks again to Abe Hughes, New Holland, for taking care of business last night.

Agribusiness, Animal Health, Elanco

Iowa Congressman at Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

fps14-kingRep. Steve King (R-IA) stopped in at the Farm Progress Show media tent to visit with us about the latest topics on his mind in Washington DC.

King talked about the inability of Congress to get much done this year. “It’s the nature of the political gridlock that exists when the Democrats run the Senate and the Republicans run the House,” he said. “We do the best we can with what we have to work with.”

Talking about the Environmental Protection Agency, King noted that both the proposed Waters of the United States rule and the delayed Renewable Fuel Standard 2014 volume requirement are both issues where the agency is “standing in the way of agriculture progress.” He is especially concerned about the RFS rule with a record corn crop in the fields. “What are we going to do with all this corn if you’ve got the EPA ratcheting down the Renewable Fuel Standard?” said King, who added that he agrees with Iowa Governor Terry Brandstad blaming the EPA proposal for John Deere layoffs.

I also asked King about immigration reform and his adamant opposition to any type of amnesty provisions. A member of the House agriculture committee, King understands the reasons why agricultural organizations have an interest in reforming guest worker provisions, but he thinks there is a better answer. “There are 104.1 million Americans of working age who are not in the work force,” he said. “Why would we go to a foreign country to import people with no skills that don’t speak our language to do this work?” King disputes the notion that Americans won’t work on farms. “Tell me a job that Americans won’t do and I will take you there and show Americans doing it. That’s never been true,” said King.

Listen to my interview with King here: Interview with Rep. Steve King, Iowa

2014 Farm Progress photo album.

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Audio, Ethanol, Farm Progress Show, labor

FMC ZimmComm Girls

Joanna Schroeder

FMC ZimmComm GirlsSo the girls of ZimmComm are having fun this week at Farm Progress and took a moment to thank FMC for helping sponsor their coverage by dedicating a photo with the infamous “gold” mics sporting FMC wear.

In case you missed it, FMC has launched some great new weed control management products this year including Solstice herbicide for corn along with Authority and Marvel. Be sure to check out them out!

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Agribusiness, Farm Progress Show, FMC, Herbicide, weed management