- American Agri-Women provides two scholarships for farm, ranch or agribusiness women or their daughters, to pursue accredited courses in ag leadership, communications, rural sociology, medicine, or any other courses directly related to agriculture. Each scholarship is for $500, to be used for tuition. Applications for each are due by June 1 of each year.
- Lessiter Publications, Inc., is pleased to announce that Michael Ellis has joined the company as Associate Publisher of Rural Lifestyle Dealer magazine.
- Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has named Douglas L. Faulkner Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development, following the Dec. 1 resignation of Thomas C. Dorr. Faulkner was appointed Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development in June 2006.
- King Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pave the way for its purchase of Alpharma Inc. by selling Alpharma’s painkiller Kadian to the drug’s maker, Actavis Group, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
