GROWMARK intends to buy Indiana seed company CAMDEN, Ind. — Regional agricultural cooperative GROWMARK announced last week it intends to purchase the assets of Select Seed in Camden. The transaction is expected to close by May 1.
Owned and operated by the Eggerling family, Select Seed is a third-generation family business. Select Seed’s proprietary brand is sold through more than 100 active farmer dealers in Indiana, southern Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.
Wind farm service company fined over worker’s injury
ODELL, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Minnesota wind farm-service company $378,000 following an accident that injured an employee working on a central Illinois wind turbine.
The agency said Outland Renewable Services of Canby, Minn., failed to ensure that employees working on wind turbines at the Iberdrola Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Farm disconnected power. The agency said one worker suffered severe burns at the wind farm, which is located in Livingston County about 35 miles northeast of Bloomington.
Steve Scott is president of Outland. He told The Pantagraph in Bloomington that the company plans to appeal the OSHA decision. He said the company has taken steps to avoid future problems and said the employee has returned to work.
First farming film festival seeks game-changing storytellers LEXINGTON, Ky. — In connection with the Alltech 27th Annual International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium in Lexington from May 22-25, Alltech is launching the first Farming Film Festival. The festival tasks budding videographers to tell a farmer’s game-changing story.
Following the theme of Alltech’s Symposium, “The Game Changers,” video submissions should focus on an idea or technology that helps farmers meet the tough challenges in their career.
Participants in the Farming Film Festival may enter by uploading their video to YouTube and emailing the link to contest@alltech.com
Winners will be chosen by a panel of science and agriculture journalists based on creativity, quality of video, story interest and number of views, and will be awarded up to $2,000 cash. The deadline for submission is May 13. For the official rules and how to participate, visit www.alltech.com/farmingfilmfestival
Finalists’ videos will be shown at a film screening during the symposium. For further information on the Alltech Symposium, including a full agenda with topics and speakers, and to register, visit www.alltech.com/symposium
Join in the conversation on Twitter by using the hashtag #AlltechSymposium
Extension soybean disease publication now an e-book ANKENY, Iowa — Soybean Diseases, the popular Iowa State University extension and Iowa Soybean Assoc. (ISA) publication, is now available as an e-book.
The publication, released in print version in December 2010, was written by Daren Mueller, ISU extension specialist with the Corn and Soybean Initiative, and his extension colleagues Alison Robertson, plant pathologist; Greg Tylka, nematologist; and Adam Sisson, ISU Corn and Soybean Initiative specialist. Funding was provided by the Iowa soybean checkoff and ISU extension.
The “Soybean Diseases” e-book is available at www.extension.iastate.edu/ store and also at www.iasoybeans.com/productionresearch/publications/SB Diseases
The online reference guide features full-screen, high-resolution images of 25 diseases that infect soybeans grown in Iowa. Printed copies can be ordered by calling 515-294-5247, visiting www.extension.iastate.edu/store or contacting the ISU at 800-383-1423. The e-book version is also available from the extension online store; search for “Soybean Diseases” to order or access the publication.
BASF continues support of Operation S.A.F.E. in 2011 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — BASF will continue support of Operation S.A.F.E. (Self-Regulating Application and Flight Efficiency) fly-ins in 2011 through its collaboration with the National Agricultural Aviation Assoc. (NAAA). Through the partnership, BASF provides financial support for participating aerial applicators, which can be used toward membership in NAAA or for new spray equipment.
To take advantage of the BASF Equipment and NAAA Membership Rebate Program, an operator or pilot must be an NAAA member. Although it is not necessary to be a member to participate in an Operation S.A.F.E. fly-in, that person must become an NAAA member before applying for and being granted approval for the rebate application.
Operation S.A.F.E. was developed in 1981 by NAAA and managed by the National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation (NAAREF). For more information, visit www.agaviation.org/content/operation-safe |
