All growers are looking for ways to lower costs and propane may just be one way to do this. According to research conducted by the Propane Research and Education Council (PERC) on its Propane Farm Incentive Program. To learn more about the program and how farmers can get involved and save money, Chuck Zimmerman spoke with PERC’s Director of Agriculture … Read More
GROWMARK Launches Endure Program
GROWMARK’s Agronomy division has launched a new Pollinator Seed Program coined the Endure Advocate Program focused on entry-level and advanced nutrient management training programs. The secondary focus on the program is to support honeybees; GROWMARK is donating wildflower seed to many of its supply and grain members to plant and promote honeybee health. If all the FS and grain members … Read More
#Classic16 Partners with Ag PhD
The grower education experience during Commodity Classic 2016 (#Classic16) taking place in New Orleans March 3-5, 2016, is getting even better this year with a partnership between Commodity Classic (CC) and Ag PhD. As part of the collaboration, Ag PhD will promote CC farmer workshops through its various communications and outreach platforms. In addition, Ag PhD’s Darren and Brian Hefty … Read More
NFU Joins Field to Market
Sustainability continues to be a key initiative among farmers around the world. The National Farmers Union (NFU) has joined Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, an initiative to unite the agricultural supply chain in defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of agriculture production in the United States. Just last week Cool Planet announced its support of the program … Read More
ETS Partners with 4R Nutrient Stewardship Program
In an effort to help farmers realize the environmental advantages of precision nutrient placement, Environmental Tillage Systems (ETS) is partnering with the 4R Stewardship Program, a science-based approach that offers enhanced environmental protection, increased production increased farmer profitability and improved sustainability. The program is founded on the concept of using the 4 “Rs”: right fertilizer source, at the right rate, … Read More
First Phytobiomes Roadmap Published
The Phytobiomes Roadmap has been published by a team (the Phytobiomes organization) led by Iowa State University. The Roadmap lays out the vision for agriculture to increase health, productivity, and sustainability of current cropping and forest systems and outlines a strategic plan to acquire the knowledge needed for the vision to become reality. The Roadmap calls for better understanding of … Read More
End GMO Attacks Calls Purdue U President Daniels
During the Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington last week, Mitch Daniels, Purdue University President, once again called for anti-GMO groups to stop attacking the use of the biotechnology in agricultural production while calling on public, private and nonprofit leaders to fight against attackers. “The attack on GMO technology is the most blatant anti-science of the age, but it is far … Read More
Wheat Genome Sequencing Gets Major Boost
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) has announced the production of a whole genome assembly of bread wheat. Based on Illumina short sequence reads assembled with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM software, the project goal was to produce a whole genome assembly of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring. The most widely grown cereal in the world, IWGSC says the project will … Read More
Why Crisis Plans are Good for Business
Thirty-nine percent of respondents to a recent ZimmComm poll said they did not have a crisis communications plan and believe they don’t need one. Yikes! As a former public relations person, I was surprised and a bit disturbed by this finding. Especially in light of the rise in undercover videos, avian flu outbreaks, meatless Mondays, (cow farts causing) climate change, … Read More
Ag Industry Commits to Reducing Climate Impact
The precision agriculture industry has made a public commitment to reduce their environmental impacts – especially those related to climate change effects. While not news from an industry who is committed to developing more sustainable technologies and practices, 81 companies have gone a step further and pledged to reduce climate emissions through the American Business Act on Climate Pledge. The … Read More