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Hello ZimmComm Community:
We're loving the agriblogging and farm podcasting road trips and there are many more coming up. Are we on your list?
What do you think about the UK vote to leave the EU? Is that like Texas leaving the USA? Will it have an impact on agriculture?
Here are some links to audio you might have missed:
Now for some news from the ZimmComm News Network:
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 AgWired
Get to Know Emily Skor, CEO, @GrowthEnergy
After meeting Emily Skor during the recent EPA RFS hearings in Kansas City I got to sit down and visit with her at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Milwaukee, WI. Emily is the new CEO of Growth Energy. At her very first FEW event she was the keynote speaker. You can listen to her speech here.
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Mukuka Talks Food Security at #ASTAannual
For most of us, a lack of food security isn't so much a problem as it is a distant possibility. For many on the African continent, however, food security is still an awaited hope. John Mukuka attended the American Seed Trade Association event from Africa to share the important message of what is being done to replace hope with reality.
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NCGA Elects Kevin Skunes
Kevin Skunes will step up as the National Corn Growers Association first vice president on Oct. 1. Skunes currently serves as board liaison to the Grower Service Action Team and representative to the National Pork Producers Council, and has previously been on the Corn Board, the Association Relations Committee and the Finance Committee.
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 Domestic Fuel
Jack Rogers @Novozymes Discusses #Ethanol Markets
Just what are the current market conditions affecting the ethanol industry today? To answer this question, Chuck Zimmerman needed to go no further than the Novozymes booth during this year's Fuel Ethanol Workshop where he had a conversation with Jack Rogers about current industry challenges. Rogers is the global marketing manager in charge of Novozymes bioenzymes portfolio. He noted that one of the challenges the ethanol industry is facing today includes a big dip in commodity prices so oil, corn and ethanol prices have come down dramatically.
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#FEW16 Panel Focuses on Unlocking Marketplace Access
A conversation took place during the FEW Ethanol Workshop this week that focused on how to get greater market access for ethanol blended fuels. The panel, "Exploring Strategies to Unlock Greater Marketplace Access for Conventional and Advanced Biofuels," featured ethanol experts on the frontlines of increasing ethanol infrastructure across the country. These are the men (and shout out to the women out there) who are working with fuel retailers and others to assist them in offering their customers more options at the pump.
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USGC Works with Korea on #Ethanol Fuel
@EPA is sending the wrong signal for advanced biofuels according to the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). The #biotech organization has released a new analysis that finds investment patterns clearly demonstrate the EPA is sending a sustained market signal that disincentivizes advanced biofuels, causing a $22.4 billion shortfall in necessary investment.
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Precision
Space May Offer New Seed Tech- at #ASTAannual
If NASA is looking for extraordinary out in space, CASIS is looking for extraordinary right here on earth. The Center for Advancement of Science in Space manages the laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS), providing resources needed to launch research and innovation that comes from experiments in micro gravity. Breakthroughs in space often lead to breakthroughs on earth.
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Provost Opti Fungicide Improves Peanut Yields
Bayer Crop Science has introduced Provost Opti Fungicide to its 2016 product line, offering peanut farmers an option to increase protection against soilborne and leaf spot diseases. The broad-spectrum fungicide features a new formulation this year, offering the same proven disease protection and efficacy with enhanced tank mix flexibility.
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AgTech Leaders Found Radicle Accelerator
AgTech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures, Cloud Break Advisors and an alliance of top Ag industry leaders have officially launched Radicle, an accelerator fund dedicated to growing early stage agricultural technology startups into proven industry leaders, and aims to reduce the time to develop, market and commercialize new Ag technologies.
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#ASTAannual Blazing Trails in Portland
Blazing Trails is the theme for the history-making joint convention of the Oregon Seed Association and American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) in Portland, June 18-22, 2016. ASTA's 133rd annual meeting is being held in the Willamette Valley, an area of about one million acres of farmland extending 100 miles to the south of Portland.
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Novus Celebrates 25th Anniversary
A mission to "make a clear difference in sustainably meeting the growing global needs for nutrition and health" has lead Novus International to pledge commitment to customers and global stakeholders through a Triple-S Bottomline: solutions, service and sustainability. That commitment began 25 years ago and we helped their team celebrate last week at their headquarters in St. Charles, MO. MORE
Listen to audio here.
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Global #Ethanol Industry Gathers for 32nd #FEW16
The 32nd Annual Few Ethanol Workshop (FEW) took place this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a sold-out exhibition hall and thousands of attendees from the global ethanol industry. The event remains the largest ethanol event in North America. In addition to the hundreds of exhibitors, FEW featured keynote speakers, breakout sessions, workshops and tours. MORE
Listen to audio here.
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Creating Opportunities for U.S. Red Meat in the Caribbean
This week's audio report from the U.S. Meat Export Federation discusses the special set of strategies required to overcome the challenges unique to exporting red meat to the Caribbean.
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The First Isotonic Protein Drink For Pigs
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Commodity Carnival Travels to 150 State & County Fairs
CME Group and National 4-H Council are partnering for a fourth consecutive year to bring Commodity Carnival to 150 state and county fairs during 2016. The exhibit teaches fair-goingers the fundamentals of risk management in agriculture, by way of bringing a hog to market. The game will also continue to be accessible beyond the fairgrounds this year via the mobile companion app, Risk Ranch.
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