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Give Thanks for Food
The AgChat Foundation has come up with a unique idea for you to use during this upcoming week of Thanksgiving. It’s called #foodthanks. It’s a way to show your thanks for the food we enjoy every day and the people who produce it. So what you’re encouraged to do is go to the webpage where you’ll find images for your … Read More
Plow Sets New World Record
The Manitoba Agricultural Museum has plowed new ground with a world record for the Largest Operational Agricultural Plow, according to the World Records Academy. The museum assembled and used the 77 foot wide plow at the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede. The first plowing pass used five 30-60 E Rumely steam tractors to pull the monster plow across a field … Read More
Kansas City Star Spotlights Precision Agriculture
Even right here in the very heart of America’s heartland people are still amazed that farmers are so technologically advanced. A great feature for the Kansas City Star spotlights precision farmers with an appropriate sense of awe. “The final frontier isn’t space, but the corn, soybean and wheat fields of the Midwest. Farmers across the heartland are using GPS-based precision … Read More
Get Out and VOTE!
Hopefully everyone reading this will be wearing one of these “I Voted” stickers by the end of today – well, assuming your polling place has them. Mine didn’t this morning and I was quite disappointed. It’s kind of like getting ashes on Ash Wednesday – wearing it is a reminder to others of what day it is. Much is being … Read More
Day Two of Farm Progress Has Muddy Start
Farm Progress Photo Album It was pretty wet out at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa on Wednesday morning after about four inches of overnight rain and wind storms. The weather did a bit of damage to some of the exhibits at the show, but it did clear up nicely during the day. Unfortunately, the weather forecast is the … Read More
Farmers Only for Precision Dating
Think of it as precision dating for farmers who are single and looking, but too darn busy to waste time weeding through potential partners who just don’t get it. The Farmers Only on-line dating service is still going strong after five years, because “city folks just don’t get it.” FarmersOnly.com was launched in August of 2005 and according to founder … Read More
Precision.AgWired.com has iPhone App
If you have an iPhone and would like to get Precision.AgWired.com posts fast and easy on it, there’s now an app for that. ZimmComm New Media this week introduced the Agwired iPhone app that allows quick access to all of ZimmComm’s on-line publications, including Precision.AgWired.com. The app is now available for iPhone users to download, free of charge, in the … Read More
There’s No Magic Bullet in Precision Ag
This morning’s opening session of the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) was certainly a good one, as attendees heard that while the world’s farmers have increased the rate of growth of the food they produce, the current increase doesn’t match the rise in the human population and its rising incomes expected by the year 2050 when it’s expected … Read More
World Gathers in Denver for Int’l Conference on Precision Ag
The 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) has kicked off at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center in Denver and runs through Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Throughout the day, hundreds of research scientists, producers, technology company representatives, equipment manufacturers, input dealers, agronomic consultants, software developers, educators, government personnel and policymakers have been pouring into the Mile High City from 40 … Read More