- Servigistics, the leading strategic service management solution provider, announced that AGCO Corporation, whose well-known equipment brand names include Massey Ferguson, Challenger, Valtra, and Fendt, has selected Servigistics to plan the company’s service parts globally and to optimize prices in individual markets globally. AGCO will utilize the Servigistics solution to offer dealers competitive prices, enhance customer service, and drive efficiencies across the service parts chain.
- A select group of elevators is offering growers expanded options to earn special premiums for soybeans during the 2008 season. More than 100 locations throughout the region are offering up to a 60-cent premium per bushel for low linolenic soybeans from Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business. Participating elevators are located in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Missouri. Additionally, contract growers are eligible to earn a 20 percent rebate on DuPont™ Asana® XL, Assure® II and Punch™ crop protection products used on their 2008 Pioneer low lin soybean contract acres.
- Accelerated Genetics awards four, $500 scholarships to high school seniors planning to major in agriculture at a short course, vocational technical college or four-year university degree program. Any high school senior who has participated in high school agricultural education, 4-H or any agricultural organization is eligible to apply. The applicant or their parents must be currently purchasing semen or products from an authorized Accelerated Genetics representative. Click here for an application form. Accelerated Genetics also offers two, $1000 scholarships to students currently enrolled in a short course, vocational technical college or a four-year university degree program. For an application form, download it from the National FFA Foundation Web site. Both applications are due postmarked by Feb. 15, 2008.
