- Monsanto Chairman, president and CEO Hugh Grant announced a three-point commitment to help increase global food production in the face of growing demand, limited natural resources and a changing climate. Monsanto has committed not only to meet, but exceed this threshold for its core crops, while addressing other critical needs: develop better seeds, conserve resources and help improve farmers’ lives.
- The Board of Directors of the Nutrients for Life Foundation has selected Harriet E. Wegmeyer to serve as its first full-time executive director. Wegmeyer began her duties in mid-May. Wegmeyer had served as the director of communications at The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) since 2002.
- American Farmland Trust (AFT) has chosen Nash Huber of Nash’s Organic Produce in Sequim, Wash., for its annual Steward of the Land Award. Nash and his team grow more than 100 types of produce, pasture raised pork, and seed crops on 400 sustainably managed acres in the Dungeness River Valley-a unique micro-climate that allows year-round production. He will receive the $10,000 AFT prize for his environmental stewardship and farmland protection efforts, the largest such award in the agriculture sector.
