This week marks the third annual AgChat #Foodthanks celebration, a time to reflect on the blessing of all the food choices we have in this nation. Farmers, ranchers, processors, butchers, bakers, chefs, grocers, truckers and more all make it possible for us to have healthy food on plates. Today and tomorrow in particular, AgChat encourages you to show your #Foodthanks … Read More
GROWMARK Excited About N-Watch
If farmers could determine the concentration, form and location of plant-available nitrogen, deciding when and where and how much to apply would be that much easier. That’s the goal of N-Watch, which started this year as a small scale, pilot program by GROWMARK in partnership with FS Member Cooperatives. The objectives of the program are to quantify the form of … Read More
AG CONNECT for Masters & Mavericks
When it comes to your business, are you a Master or a Maverick – or maybe a little of both, like Kip Tom of Indiana who is one of the AG CONNECT Masters & Mavericks. As a Master, Kip values the tried-and-true methods that have brought high-yield harvests, but as a Maverick, he seeks opportunities for calculated entrepreneurial risk-taking that … Read More
Generational Differences Among Farmers
New research shows how the management style of younger dairy producers and corn growers compares and contrasts with that of their older counterparts. The survey, commissioned by McCormick Company, considered management practices, ownership structures, decision-making processes, business and transition planning, and the role of information — including digital media — in running respondents’ operations. What the study found was that … Read More
Precision Souffle’ Making at NAFB
Teamwork and precision helped a group of NAFB members chosen at random during last week’s convention in Kansas City to mix up an egg souffle to the tune of the William Tell Overture. Missouri’s “Egg Lady”, Jo Manhart, orchestrated the egg souffle making demonstration by assigning four NAFB members separate jobs to get an egg souffle in the oven before … Read More
Honoring the Best at NAFB
Well known and loved agricultural reporters were honored this week at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting annual meeting with induction into the organization’s Hall of Fame. Both broadcasters honored this year are exceptional for their coverage of crops outside of the traditional corn and soybean sector. NAFB first paid tribute to a past president who passed away unexpectedly earlier … Read More
Farm Broadcasters Meeting in Kansas City
Hundreds of agricultural broadcasters from around the country are gathering in Kansas City this week for the 69th annual meeting of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB). The premier event of the convention is Trade Talk, coming up on Thursday, when all of those broadcasters will be heading into the exhibit hall with microphones and cameras in hand to … Read More
Poll Says Farmers Plan to Vote Romney
According to the Agri-Pulse Farm and Rural Poll released today, 78 percent of farmers polled are voting for Mitt Romney in the presidential election and a majority blame Democrats for failure to pass a new farm bill. “We wanted to see not only how farmers viewed the presidential election, but how the failure to pass a new farm bill might … Read More
Technology in Focus at Global Farmer Roundtable
The seventh annual Global Farmer Roundtable, sponsored by the Truth about Trade and Technology (TATT), was held at the 2012 World Food Prize in Iowa recently. The event included 17 producers from Canada, Honduras, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Swaziland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, US, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. “We took the farmers to Iowa State to the seed lab … Read More
Importance of Technology in Feeding the World
Biotechnology and precision agriculture technology are twin advancements in farming that are working together to help increase productivity to feed the world. Monsanto‘s executive vice president and chief technology officer Dr. Robert Fraley addressed the topic of game changing innovations that are shaping the future of green technology during the 2012 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue last week in Des … Read More