- To encourage and support higher education for relatives of FCS Financial members, FCS Financial will again offer up to 35 scholarships valued at $1,000 each. The scholarship deadline is March 1. Apply here.
- This summer, FMC Corporation and Crop Production Services sponsored the 2008 Bin Buster tour across the Midwest, hosting technical meetings where crop producers could enjoy a free meal, learn about FMC products such as Hero insecticide, and register to win a new 15,000 BTU Charmglow gas grill.
- Members of the American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee elected Mathew Meals as the committee’s chairperson for 2009. He will take over as chair in February, at the end of the committee’s leadership conference, and serve one year.
- Daniel Prough of LaGrange, Ind., earned the grand prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 90th annual meeting. Prough won a year’s use of a New Holland TV-145 bidirectional tractor.
