- Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, announces it is commercializing soybean varieties developed using a technology that increases yields by as much as 12 percent per acre. Pioneer is introducing five varieties with the technology for 2008 planting, pending wide-area product advancement trial results. This announcement officially launches one of the company’s three soybean yield traits from its pipeline to commercial status. It will be commercially known as Accelerated Yield Technology™ (AYTTM). AYTTM uses proprietary molecular breeding techniques to rapidly scan and identify genes that increase yield then incorporate them into elite soybean genetics.
- Strategies to reduce GHG emissions in the dairy industry have to be evaluated at a global level to ensure that mitigation strategies to reduce emissions do not increase emissions at another point in the chain of production. Some reasonable reductions have already been done in the input amount at farm level in most dairy countries (fertilizer, concentrate, energy consumption, etc.), and should continue in the future. These reductions should help to reduce GHG emissions in the dairy industry. Carbon dioxide and perfluorinated hydrocarbons are the greenhouse gases that the dairy processing sector can have a significant influence on. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions at farm and manufacturing levels” is the new Bulletin of IDF n°422/2007. It can be ordered in electronic form via the IDF Web site.
- Farms.com is pleased to announce that Bob Brcka has been promoted to General Manager PigCHAMP, a Farms.com business unit. Bob joined PigCHAMP in 2005 as Marketing Manager. Under Bob’s leadership, PigCHAMP has recently launched PigCHAMP CARE 3000, a Windows-based software program that is setting new standards for pork production record keeping and data analysis. Brcka has more than 25 years of agricultural management experience with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Principal Financial Group and Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
- Jeff Springsteen has accepted the position of market manager for non-selective corn herbicide products with Bayer CropScience. In his new role, Springsteen has the product management responsibility for Bayer CropScience corn products, including Radius®, Balance®, Option® and Autumn® herbicides. In addition, Springsteen is responsible for introducing new products to the marketplace, including Laudis™ herbicide, which the company anticipates launching by 2008, along with three additional corn herbicides to be launched in 2009. Most recently, Springsteen held the marketing responsibilities as manager of Bayer CropScience marketing programs and customer relationship management (CRM).
