- CJ BIO America broke ground on their first U.S. construction project – a $320 million lysine production facility at the North Central Ag Industrial Park west of Fort Dodge, Iowa.
- The American Society of Agricultural Consultants has launched a new website.
- TradeMark Nitrogen Corporation has named Mike Barry to the company’s management team as General Manager.
- Debbie Lyons-Blythe, White City, Kan., is Monsanto’s America’s Farmers Mom of the Year 2012.