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Hello ZimmComm Fans:
We're wishing you a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and want to thank all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in military service to our country.
This week ZimmComm summer intern Maggie Seiler, KSU, went on-location to start agriblogging the Alltech International Symposium. Maggie is off to an impressive start! She'll be working with Cindy next at the American Seed Trade Association Annual Convention in Nashville. You can find Chuck and Maggie's Alltech photos here.
During the Alltech Symposium Chuck had his first photo upload of the week interrupted by the Flickr changeover to their new design. We're curious what you think about the new look. It has bigger thumbnails and now allows us to upload photos at full resolution. This means when you choose to download the original version of any of our photos you'll be getting the "master" of the .jpg file! We get lots of requests for photo masters and now you can easily download them direct from our Flickr sets. BTW. We've got almost 92,000 photos in there with almost 4.4 million views to date! We love taking and sharing photos!
With all the farm bill activity in Congress this past week, our latest ZimmPoll asked "What's your opinion of committee farm bill?" From the results, most think it's better than nothing.
Our poll results: 18% said Better Than Nothing and Other, 14% said Hits Nutrition Too Hard and Bad For Everyone, nine percent said Senate Better Than House, Bad For Farmers, Will Help Conservation and Great For Everyone, and nobody said House Better Than Senate. Poll results are all over the charts this week with mixed reviews and disagreement with particular sections of the farm bill.
Our new ZimmPoll is now live and asks the question, "Is agriculture doing a bad job of marketing?" Marketing is key to a successful business or industry. The public often gets a bad taste for agriculture after "issues" hit the media. Do we cover our tracks and market the good along with the benefits to agriculture, not to mention the must haves of it? Let us know.
Here are some interviews and other audio files you might have missed this week:
Now for some news from the ZimmComm News Network:
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 AgWired An Alltech Marketing ForumWe're all about marketing here on AgWired. That's why "The Marketing Forum, Branding at its Best" session at the 2013 Alltech International Symposium caught my eye. This session dealt with subjects like transparency, different cultures and protecting the brand. MOREZimmCast
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Study Shows Internet Increases Small Farm Income |
North and South American Corn Growers Unite
As most agricultural eyes were on progress of the farm bill last week in Congress, some very prominent farmers were in another nation's capitol below the equator signing a new agreement to create an alliance between North and South American corn growers. MORE
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 Domestic Fuel DF Cast: Creating, Not Extracting, Sugars for Biofuels
One of the big issues that continues to dog the biofuels business, especially ethanol production, is the use of food crops as fuel sources. While many have made the case that the crops can provide both food AND fuel (consider the dried distillers grains from ethanol production, for example), a New Jersey-based company thinks it has a way to remove the food part from the debate altogether. MOREDFcast
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EMCORE Wins NASA Solar Contract
EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) planned for launch in 2015. The solar panels include EMCORE's most advanced XTJ triple-junction solar cells, and will power a satellite that will carry the GPIM payload. ATK will integrate the EMCORE's solar panels into its heritage-designed solar arrays for final flight configuration for the GPIM satellite. MORE
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Investors Interested in Fossil Fuel-Free Portfolios |
Precision Pays
Field Staff for Ag Leader Machine Guidance Support
Ag Leader's Machine Guidance Support Supervisor, Jordan Dittmer, wants you to meet their field support techs. MORE
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Energy-Efficient Agriculture Irrigation
AgGateway and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) are co-sponsoring the launch of a cross-industry collaboration project that will help growers better manage water and energy use by integrating weather, soil moisture, soil type, crop and other relevant data coming from a wide range of hardware and software programs. MORE
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Syngenta Takes Crop Research to a New Level
Syngenta has unveiled its new crop research facility at the company's RTP Innovation Center, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The $72 million, Green Globes Certified, Advanced Crop Lab allows company researchers to simulate any agricultural climate and precisely measure plant inputs. MORE |
 Rural Interests Concerned About Losing Local TV
A number of agricultural and conservation organizations are urging the Federal Communications Commission and Congress to research the impact that impending spectrum incentive auctions could have on television translator service and low power television service in rural areas. MORE
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2013 Alltech International Symposium
The Alltech 29th Annual International Symposium picked up where the 2012 Symposium concluded. And that is with the pledge for continuous innovation meeting the agricultural challenge of feeding a growing global population. Chuck and our new summer intern Maggie Seiler were there to cover it. MORE
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Rep. Peterson Farm Bill Comments
House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Congressman Collin Peterson (D-MN) held a telephone press conference on Friday to discuss the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013, passed by the committee last week on a vote of 36 to 10. MORE
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Dairies to See More Opportunities to Turn Waste to Energy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture extends the deadline on a program that could see more farmers, especially those in the dairy industry, turning livestock waste into energy. The deadline to submit for funds under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and Dairy Industry Memorandum of Understanding has been extended to to May 31, 2013. During a teleconference moderated by Jerry Bingold from the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the USDA's Energy Policy Advisor for Rural Development Todd Campbell said this is a top priority of his agency. MORE
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Dairy Council to Grant $100,000 to Fight Hunger
The National Dairy Council, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Feeding America last year formed a partnership to help alleviate hunger through an increased focus on nutrition. Today, they reaffirmed that promise by announcing a $100,000 grant program designed to support nutrition education and increase access to dairy and other nutrient-rich foods. MORE
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Holstein Names Seven Herds of Excellence |
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