Okay… I want to set up a farm field day. I just had the idea and I’m pretty excited so I’m writing this blog as part of the thought process… I sure would like some help fleshing it out. The reason I ask… I recently wrote about how geeked up I was to go to a field day when I was… Read More
Getting My Bearings on The Philippines Central Plains
Another post in my series on Philippine agriculture — this one includes the basics of the Central Plains. As I mentioned before, the host for part of my vacation owns a seed company in The Philippines. We were excited to be going to a field day his company was hosting. I didn’t know what the drive up would be like… Read More
Public Plant Breeding in the Philippines
Plant breeding was one of those fields of study & science that I hadn’t given much thought to til I was older than I’d like to admit, especially since some of my closest friends are plant breeders these days! My friend Albert had worked at The Philippines National Institute for Plant Breeding (IPB) in Los Banos previously. And while we weren’t… Read More
Sen. Lincoln: “How Are We Going to Eat if We Don’t Support Agriculture?”
This weekend, Senator Blanche Lincoln did a presentation at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show. As a local, many of the faces in the audience were familiar and she comment that she was home in this area, and in agriculture. As head of the Senate agriculture committee, she was speaking to a standing room only crowd. I shot video of… Read More
#FCOW aka Food Check Out Week? What’s that?
Some of you may have missed the tweets and Facebook posts over the last several days, but I noticed lots of friends mentioning Food Check Out Week or tagging things with #FCOW. I wasn’t really sure what it was so I was interested when my friend Cyndie posted the proclamation by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Now I know a… Read More
“Friendly” Competition that Yields Results for the Community
After talking to Ray Prock and Jeff Fowle for months through twitter, I finally met the dairyman and rancher in January and it surprised all of us as we seemed to be dear friends for years. The two of them put such incredible time and thought into growing their communities on twitter still that it leaves me in awe. But it also makes me laugh. … Read More
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