- National Agri-Marketing Association reports the 2008 Awards of Excellence recipients are as follows: Marketing Communications — Paul Redhage, FMC Communications Manager, FMC Agricultural Products; Public Relations — Beth Andersen, Senior Vice President, Managing Partner, Charleston Orwig, Inc.; and Sales — Vernon Benes, Director of Business Development, Beck Ag, Inc.
- Dow AgroSciences LLC is acquiring the assets of Sudwestsaat GbR (SWS), a hybrid maize company with its headquarters near Rastatt, Baden-Wurttemberg, in Germany.
- Farmers now have available a tool to assess the value of corn yields combined with grain moisture at the time of harvest with a new online calculator offered by DEKALB. The online harvest moisture calculator allows farmers to input the value of each bushel of corn (or the current commodity price), their drying cost per bushel, the number of acres they plant per bag and their average yield per acre. Then the free tool automatically calculates the value in each bag of DEKALB seed based on both the DEKALB yield advantage and harvest moisture advantage.
- Raven Industries has introduced Switch Pro: a simple-to-use product controller with advanced technology. Switch Pro provides a state-of-the-art control system when teamed up with the superior technology of Envizio Pro or Viper Pro field computers. Switch Pro eliminates consoles from the cab providing more room with less clutter by combining the technology of several devices into one easy-to-use console including: single product control (liquid or NH3), 10 boom section control, a speed sense control and AccuBoom boom section control.
