Opening Keynotes: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and GreenPoint Ag CEO Jeff Blair Highlight Innovation and Practical Solutions for Ag Retailers Willoughby, Ohio (May 23, 2025) — Tech Hub LIVE Conference and Expo, the premier event for ag retailers and precision ag professionals, returns to the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, July 21-23, 2025, to mark five …
MAHA Creates Concerns for Farmers
President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission issued its first report on childhood health Thursday, creating concerns in the agriculture community about what it could mean for the future of crop protection tools. Making the announcement at the White House with President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy said the report is a call to action …
Land O’Lakes, Inc. CEO Beth Ford Named No. 12 on Fortune’s 2025 Most Powerful Women in Business List
Beth Ford is recognized for her advocacy on agriculture policies, immigration reform, and issues that support working Americans and their communities ARDEN HILLS, Minn. (May 20, 2025) — Today, Fortune named Land O’Lakes, Inc. President and CEO Beth Ford as No. 12 on its Most Powerful Women of 2025 list. The annual list, compiled by Fortune editors, highlights 100 of …
EPA Administrator Addresses E15 and RVO Questions
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin faced members of the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday to answer questions about the agency’s 2026 fiscal year budget request, including as it relates to biofuels. Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) asked Zeldin about the need for a permanent legislative solution for the nationwide sale of year-round E15. “Is it true that, despite President Trump’s …
Ethanol Report on Angler Education
This weekend, crappie anglers from around the country will be on the Lake of the Ozarks for a chance to win $50,000 in the Big Crappie Challenge. The Renewable Fuels Association is in on the competition with three RFA-sponsored teams making sure the ethanol message is relayed to the hundreds of anglers on the water this weekend. Robert White, RFA …
ZimmCast 746 – ZimmComm Plans for Future
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. The ZimmComm Team is enjoying some time in paradise right near the Gulf of America. The weather has been great and we’ve had enough rain so that everything is green and growing. In this episode Cindy and I discuss the changes we’re making to ZimmComm. We recently announced that we are going to retire …
Livestock Markets and Dealers Support Efforts to Prevent New World Screwworm
Livestock markets and dealers strongly support recent efforts to stop the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS) into the U.S. The introduction of the bipartisan and bicameral Strengthening Tactics to Obstruct the Population of Screwworms (STOP Screwworms) Act, which would authorize funds for and direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin construction on a new sterile fly …
Advanced Agrilytics Releases New White Paper: “Transforming Global Food Production One Algorithm at a Time”
Indianapolis, IN – May 6, 2025—Advanced Agrilytics, a leader in precision agronomic solutions, today announced the publication of a new white paper titled “Transforming Global Food Production One Algorithm at a Time.” The paper underscores the company’s mission to revolutionize food production and agricultural sustainability with its patented sub-acre analysis technology. The full white paper is available for download here. …
PowerPollen Receives Foundational Patent for Groundbreaking Pollen Storage Methodology
Decades of Discovery and Commercial Field Data Consistently Shows Yield Improvement Storage Patent Latest in IP Portfolio for Industry Leading Pollination Tech Stack Ankeny, IA – May 6, 2025 PowerPollen, an agtech company improving crop pollination for increased agricultural productivity and profitability, has received U.S. Patent 12,245,587 for its groundbreaking process of using solid particulates blended with fresh pollen grains …
Advanced Agrilytics Reveals New Data Linking Crop Resilience to Lower Risk and Higher Profitability
New analysis shows Advanced Agrilytics customers outperform USDA loss benchmarks, even in tough growing seasons Indianapolis, IN – April 30, 2025 – Advanced Agrilytics published a new study showing that its data-driven, predictive agronomic methodology helps growers boost productivity in good years and better withstand tough seasons, reducing agronomic and financial volatility and risk. The new article, “How Crop Resiliency …
Ethanol Report on Aromatics Cancer Research
New research out of The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota has discovered links between breast cancer risk and exposure to carcinogens and aromatics from gasoline. The Biofuels Research Project at The Hormel Institute has been studying the carcinogenic effects of compounds originating from burning fossil fuels thanks to the support of organizations like the Renewable Fuels Association. RFA board member …
Jord BioScience Field Trials Deliver Breakthrough Consistency in Biological Crop Protection, Boosting Soybean Yields Across Midwest
Proprietary Microbial Bank Bolsters Market-Leading Crop Protection for Higher Yields Two Years of In-Field Data Prove Biological Playbook’s Impact Potential MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 29, 2025 – Jord BioScience, a leading science and analytics company providing customizable microbial solutions for agriculture, unveiled two years of field trial data showing its proprietary microbial solutions consistently outperform industry-standard treatments, increasing soybean yield by …
Full Agenda is Set for 2025 AgGateway Mid-Year Meeting
Prairie Meadows Casino and Hotel, Altoona, Iowa June 9-11, 2025 AgGateway is pleased to announce that the agenda is now available to review for the 2025 North America Mid-Year Meeting. This year features more sessions taking place on Monday morning, in addition to an all-day Entity ID Working Group meeting on Thursday, 12 June as a follow up to the …
ZimmCast 745 – ZimmComm News & NAMA/NAFB Interviews
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this episode I’m going to share a couple of interviews from the NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. One is with Gardner Hatch, Executive Director, NAFB and Debbie Boyle, Vice President, Kynetic. They talk about a new NAFB listener survey. Then I have an interview with Melanie Rice, Brownfield Ag News, about becoming the new President …
Ethanol Report on E15 Optimism
U.S. sales of E15 reached a record 1.24 billion gallons in 2024, an increase of 11% over 2023, according to a Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) analysis of data released by state agencies in Minnesota and Iowa. While it appears the Trump administration will have to continue the practice of issuing waivers this summer to keep E15 at the pump, there …