Articles Tagged with ''legacy''

Social platform cropNAtion now available as a smartphone app

April 26, 2012

Today’s farmers and ranchers are so busy increasing their productivity to meet the needs of a growing world that they don’t have time to sit and visit with their neighbors like they used to. However, there is still great value in building relationships, sharing information and asking for advice. cropNAtion, the social media platform for agriculture which launched in 2011, allows farmers and ranchers to connect with each other whether they are across the country or across the section.
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CFI launches “Meet America’s Farmers” YouTube channel

April 26, 2012
The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) has launched “Meet America’s Farmers,” a YouTube channel of videos featuring today’s farmers. The channel was developed to offer consumers the opportunity to observe the commitment of today’s farmers to raising safe, healthy and affordable food. Individual farmers and farm organizations are invited to create their own videos for the channel, using a shared values approach to connect with consumers.
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American Agri-Women heading to Washington, D.C., to deliver ag policy positions

April 26, 2012
American Agri-Women (AAW) recently drafted resolutions to address issues and threats to agriculture. Representatives from this all-volunteer coalition of more than 50,000 farm, ranch and agribusiness women will deliver these resolutions to elected officials in Washington, D.C., in early June. The group’s resolutions, which are reviewed each spring, cover ag business and economics, commodities and natural resources.
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American Agri-Women heading to Washington, D.C., to deliver ag policy positions

April 26, 2012

American Agri-Women (AAW) recently drafted resolutions to address issues and threats to agriculture. Representatives from this all-volunteer coalition of more than 50,000 farm, ranch and agribusiness women will deliver these resolutions to elected officials in Washington, D.C., in early June. The group’s resolutions, which are reviewed each spring, cover ag business and economics, commodities and natural resources.
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American Agri-Women heading to Washington, D.C., to deliver ag policy positions

April 26, 2012
American Agri-Women (AAW) recently drafted resolutions to address issues and threats to agriculture. Representatives from this all-volunteer coalition of more than 50,000 farm, ranch and agribusiness women will deliver these resolutions to elected officials in Washington, D.C., in early June. The group’s resolutions, which are reviewed each spring, cover ag business and economics, commodities and natural resources.
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CFI launches “Meet America’s Farmers” YouTube channel

April 26, 2012

The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) has launched “Meet America’s Farmers,” a YouTube channel of videos featuring today’s farmers. The channel was developed to offer consumers the opportunity to observe the commitment of today’s farmers to raising safe, healthy and affordable food. Individual farmers and farm organizations are invited to create their own videos for the channel, using a shared values approach to connect with consumers.
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New Illinois directory will connect producers with custom manure applicators

April 26, 2012
Producers will soon have a way to contact custom manure applicators, said Dale Baird, working with the University of Illinois Extension Certified Livestock Manager program. “Extension is developing a new resource, the Illinois Custom Manure Applicators Directory. A significant amount of livestock manure from large-scale livestock operations is custom applied in Illinois.
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DuPont opens $40 million agriculture research facility


April 26, 2012
DuPont opened a $40 million plant genetics research facility in Johnston, Iowa, earlier this month. Approximately 400 new jobs will be created through the increased research and development capabilities housed in the 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building.
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Market recovering from discovery of BSE case in California

April 26, 2012
The initial upset over Tuesday's announcement of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the U.S. in six years has started to subside. A dairy cow at a rendering facility in California was determined to have the disease based on samples sent to the USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.
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AgriLife Research: Dairy study to determine how breed and herd longevity are related

April 26, 2012
Texas AgriLife Research is trying to help the dairy industry determine how breed and conformation affects dairy cow longevity. Dr. Pablo Pinedo, AgriLife Research ruminant animal health scientist in Amarillo, is conducting a study funded by the American Jersey Cattle Club Research Foundation after producers have noticed a decline in longevity of dairy cows worldwide. “Today’s high involuntary culling rates are a concern on dairy farms from both an animal well-being and an economic point of view,” Pinedo said.
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