Improving the Safety of Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials
July was not a good month for rail transportation, whether you are talking passenger or freight rail. The devastating derailment and explosion of petroleum tank cars in Lac-Megantic, Quebec and the...
View ArticleTurmoil in the Potash World and My Beach Vacation (really)
I’ve always had a kind of personal relationship with phosphates, based oddly enough on my annual trips to the beach. My family has vacationed in Ocracoke, North Carolina for over 30 years. A little...
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Create Your Own SAP User Interface
Many of the customers I talk to have end users who still rely on the old SAP GUI user interface. It’s been around for so long that many people are used to it and can speed through transactions. But for...
View ArticleASUG Chemical SIG Fall Summit in Newtown Square, PA Oct. 15-16
Join us at SAP Americas Headquarters for the annual ASUG Chemical SIG Fall Summit. This year's agenda includes customer sessions on Demand Planning, e-Procurement, manufacturing innnovation, inventory...
View ArticleSAP for Farming?
Many, if not most, of the global agribusinesses run SAP software. But to my knowledge, no individual farmers do. At least, no farmers like those in my rural Pennsylvania neighborhood of corn, soybean,...
View ArticlePrecision Agriculture Summit Nov. 5 in Mannheim, Germany
Feeding the world is becoming a major issue. It’s estimated that we will need to feed 9 billion people by 2050. Many SAP customers, from seed companies, to fertilizer and crop protection companies, are...
View ArticleAgGateway Conference - Food for Thought
I know that blogs are supposed to be timely, but I’m just now getting my head around all the content from the annual AgGateway Conference in Phoenix last week, Nov. 10-13. It was my first time...
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North America Precision Agriculture Summit
Working in partnership, SAP and F4F Agriculture are inviting key leaders from the agriculture industry to attend a Summit to discuss precision agriculture topics in Palo Alto on February 4. Informed by...
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Tractor Envy
I spent yesterday at the Pennsylvania Farm Show (the largest indoor agricultural event in the US) looking at tractors that cost more than my house. OK, I did visit the cow and sheep barns and look...
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Precision Farming Back in the Day
My first experience of precision farming was almost 22 years ago this spring. I’m talking vegetables here -- not corn, wheat, or soy beans – but the lesson I learned in my vegetable garden is totally...
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Why Our Sheep Didn't Get to Market
If you have a sheep farm in the mid-Atlantic, you plan your year around two dates: the Monday before Easter and the Monday before Orthodox Easter. Every Monday is Sheep and Goat auction day at New...
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The Connected Beehive – An Internet of Things Scenario You Probably Haven’t...
Unless you are a Southeastern Pennsylvania beekeeper, you probably don’t know that honey bees in this part of the country make most of their honey right now, when the locust and tulip poplar trees are...
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Who Can Predict the Weather?
After a largely dry May, it’s raining in southeastern Pennsylvania, just in time to give everyone’s newly planted fields a boost. The new hay fields my husband planted over a month ago have grown 3-4...
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Farming, Drones, and Interstellar
“We ran out of food” is the line explaining why NASA scientists are trying to resettle humanity on another planet in the recent sci-fi movie Interstellar. In the grim future represented in the movie, a...
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It's on our doorstep
I borrow this headline from Lancaster Farming, the biggest mid-Atlantic agricultural newspaper. What’s on our doorstep here in Pennsylvania is the bird flu that has killed more than 47 million US...
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