- The American Soybean Association Board of Directors elected the leaders who will guide the organization through its 100th year during its annual meeting in St. Louis. Bill Gordon of Minnesota will serve as 2020 ASA president.
- Hemp Industry Daily is now the exclusive hemp and cannabis media partner of World Ag Expo®, focusing on the Hemp Education & Marketing Pavilion and Hemp Innovation Challenge in Tulare, CA, February 11-13, 2020.
- Results are in for World Ag Expo’s® Top-10 New Products Competition, sponsored by Bank of America. The winners will be showcased February 11-13, 2020, during the World Ag Expo® in Tulare, California.
- Kelly Registration Systems, a leading provider of essential information and automation solutions to the agribusiness and pesticide industry, recently announced it has extended its existing contract with the South Carolina Department of Agriculture to build the software system that will manage and automate the state’s hemp licensing program.
- Farm Foundation is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) to create the new Farm Foundation Agricultural Scholars Program that will take 10 graduate-level students of agriculture through a year of programming.
- The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has recognized the winning teams in the fall 2019 Purple Plow Challenge, Growing Green. Each team received a 3-D printer and a $100 gift card for their class.
- The inaugural Board of Directors has been named for the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new standard developed to help the U.S. cotton production sector further reduce its footprint by enabling producers to assess their performance against specific sustainability goals.
- UnitedAg celebrated the graduation of the 3rd Leadership Class of the WomenAg Leadership Academy and the 2nd Emerging Leaders Academy.
- The Board of Directors of the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES ) just announced the promotion of Lauren Langworthy to executive director.
- BigIron Auctions announced that on Dec. 26-27, 2019 it will hold its largest ever online auction increasing the number of equipment items it is selling to more than 3,300 over the two-day event.
- The American Farm Bureau Federation has appointed farmer and rancher members to the organization’s Young Farmers & Ranchers and Promotion & Education committees. National committee members are nominated by their respective state Farm Bureaus. Learn more online: Young Farmers & Ranchers, http://www.fb.org/programs/young-farmers-and-ranchers/ and Promotion & Education, http://www.fb.org/programs/promotion-education/.
