- American Butter Institute (ABI) members elected new board representatives from three member companies: Cody Gruwell, United Dairymen of Arizona, in Tempe, AZ; Michael John, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc. in Reston, VA; and Dean Van Tuinen from Darigold, Inc., in Seattle, WA. In addition, John Whetten, ABIs President from 1999-2001 received the American Dairy Product Institutes Award of Merit.
- Research into the success of farm safety education efforts delivered by the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day program will help the program become even more successful in the future. Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the University of Alabama have joined forces with the Progressive Agriculture Foundation to conduct this new study in hopes of making a good thing even better. Funding for this work, entitled REACCH (Refinement and Enhancement of Agricultural Safety Curricula for Children) is provided through a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
- Ag Leader Technology, along with Holland Scientific, a leader in active light reflectance crop sensing technology, announced that Ag Leader has become the exclusive distributor for Holland Scientifics second generation active light reflectance sensor products for use in production agriculture.
