Last week I crossed one thing off my bucket list thanks to the Renewable Fuels Association and ZimmComm. I was able to attend and cover the 2014 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. The Legendary Buffalo Chip opened for the first time in 1981 hosting the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling (TM) and the Best Party Anywhere (TM) There’s … Read More
Hick Chick Chat: Rolling into Sturgis
I’m really excited to announce that Chuck and Cindy have offered me a bucket list opportunity to attend the 74th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. I’ll be joining the team from the Renewable Fuels Association and their quest to bring more awareness to the motorcycle community about E10 in their fill-ups. They will have their “free fuel happy hours” again this … Read More
Hick Chick Chat with Central Illinois Farmers
This week’s Hick Chick Chat was recorded during the 2014 Precision Aerial Ag Show at Progress City where I literally bumped into former National Corn Growers Association president Leon Corzine while he was chatting with another central Illinois farmer, Jim Reed. I decided that it would be a good time to talk about precision ag and how it’s making the … Read More
Southwestern Fertilizer Conference Breaking Records
Nearly 1600 fertilizer industry representatives from 17 countries have pre-registered for the 79th annual Southwestern Fertilizer Conference (SWFC) coming up later this week in San Antonio. Combined with the 200-300 attendees expected to register onsite, that is expected to make it the largest gathering of the fertilizer industry on record, according SWFC Executive Director Pat Miller. “It’s an exciting time … Read More
Forbes Announces AgTech Summit
Forbes magazine will focus on accelerating new technologies and capabilities in farming next July at the “Forbes Reinventing America: The AgTech Summit” in Salinas Valley, California. Forbes, in partnership with SVG Partners and The Steinbeck Innovation Cluster, will host the invitation-only event to bring together several hundred of the smartest minds in Silicon Valley and global agriculture for the purpose … Read More
Syngenta & QCCP Talk Cellulosic at Iowa Speedway
Our Joanna Schroeder covered last week’s NASCAR racing activities at Iowa Speedway. Here’s one of her stories on the Saturday race sponsor: Syngenta and Quad County Corn Processors (QCCP) are collaborating to produce cellulosic ethanol from corn kernels as well as to license the technology to other ethanol plants. The first-of-its-kind technology is known as Adding Cellulosic Ethanol (ACE Project) … Read More
MapShots AgStudio Expo on July 28th
MapShots will cover various topics at its upcoming AgStudio Expo held July 28 at the Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. MapShots holds this meeting yearly to highlight their AgStudio line of products to new customers and discuss updates with existing customers. This is held the day before the InfoAg Conference which is the preeminent conference for agricultural technology applications … Read More
MapShots Holds 2014 Ag Studio Expo
MapShots, Inc. will hold its 2014 AgStudio Expo on July 28, 2014, at the Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. MapShots holds this meeting yearly to highlight their AgStudio line of products to new customers and discuss updates with existing customers. This is held the day before the InfoAg Conference which is the preeminent conference for agricultural technology applications and … Read More
Hick Chick Chat Previews 2014 Farm Progress Show
This week for the Hick Chick Chat we check in with Matt Jungmann, Farm Progress Show manager. We’re a little over eight weeks away now from the 2014 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Matt tells me that the corn is growing, the pavement is complete and they have added a concert to the show lineup this year, including country … Read More
Timely Information for a Data Rich Environment
Agriculture, today, is an extremely data rich environment. Being able to gather all that data can be an increasingly difficult and time consuming job. Making sense of the data after you’ve gathered it and using it to make the right decisions for your business or farm can be an even more difficult task. Over 20 years ago, work began to … Read More