Agrievolution Alliance Brings Global Agriculture To Conexpo-con/agg

Apr 20, 2023

The global coalition of agriculture equipment manufacturing associations, the Agrievolution Alliance, brought together representatives from the United Kingdom, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Japan, Turkey and the United States for several on-site meetings at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 last month in Las Vegas.

Alliance members sat in on the annual Joint Technical Liaison Meeting (JTLM) at the show, observing their counterparts in the construction sector as they shared ongoing legislative, compliance and standards activities taking place worldwide. The Alliance also held its Steering Committee meeting and other gatherings at North America’s largest construction trade show.

The Alliance is currently exploring the potential to launch an equivalent agriculture meeting to the JTLM. For more than three decades, members and staff from a variety of organizations have gathered in-person at the JTLM to share timely and relevant information with one another. These meetings have been hosted in North America, Asia and Europe on a rotating basis, with the most recent being held at CONEXPO-CON/AGG.

Other actions stemming from recently held Agrievolution Steering Committee meetings include:

The important decision to transition the Alliance into a legal entity
Activities to support and promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2, Zero Hunger; No. 3, Good Health & Well Being; and No. 15, Life on Land
Actively supporting the Agrievolution Statistics Program’s initiative to harmonize global agricultural statistics programs

The Agrievolution Alliance is the global voice for agriculture equipment manufacturers. Made up of agriculture equipment manufacturing organizations from around the world, its mission is to support the collective 6,000-plus agriculture equipment manufacturer members, working to promote the benefits of mechanization for global sustainable agriculture and growing awareness of the vital role that agriculture mechanization and its precision agriculture technologies play in feeding the growing global population.

Several AEM Board members joined the group throughout the week at CONEXPO-CON/AGG to share their appreciation for the work done by the Alliance and to learn more about its current initiatives, as AEM serves as Secretariat for the Alliance.

Alliance member companies benefit from the insights and unique global data sets gleaned from this collaboration. And as the industry as a whole looks to navigate both the challenges and opportunities the future brings, the Alliance will continue to advocate for the industry as the global, unified voice of agriculture equipment manufacturers.

Source : AEM

Video: Spring 2026 weather outlook for Wisconsin; What an early-arriving El Niño could mean

Northeast Wisconsin is a small corner of the world, but our weather is still affected by what happens across the globe.

That includes in the equatorial Pacific, where changes between El Niño and La Niña play a role in the weather here -- and boy, have there been some abrupt changes as of late.

El Niño and La Niña are the two phases of what is collectively known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short. These are the swings back and forth from unusually warm to unusually cold sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator.

Since this past September, we have been in a weak La Niña, which means water temperatures near the Eastern Pacific equator have been cooler than usual. That's where we're at right now.

Even last fall, the long-term outlook suggested a return to neutral conditions by spring and potentially El Niño conditions by summer.

But there are some signs this may be happening faster than usual, which could accelerate the onset of El Niño.

Over the last few weeks, unusually strong bursts of westerly winds farther west in the Pacific -- where sea surface temperatures are warmer than average -- have been observed. There is a chance that this could accelerate the warming of those eastern Pacific waters and potentially push us into El Niño sooner than usual.

If we do enter El Nino by spring -- which we'll define as the period of March, April and May -- there are some long-term correlations with our weather here in Northeast Wisconsin.

Looking at a map of anomalously warm weather, most of the upper Great Lakes doesn't show a strong correlation, but in general, the northern tiers of the United States do tend to lean to that direction.

The stronger correlation is with precipitation. El Niño conditions in spring have historically come with a higher risk of very dry weather over that time frame, so this will definitely be a transition we'll have to watch closely as we move out of winter.