- The 28th National Beef Cook-Off will come to California in late September. Home cooks nationwide, and local professional restaurant chefs working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan area counties are encouraged to enter their original, newly developed best beef recipes by March 31, 2009.
- Neogen Corporation has received approval from the FDA and National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments for its quick and easy BetaStar US test for dairy antibiotics in milk.
- FCStone Group, Inc. announced that it has acquired Elders Risk Management Pty Ltd.
- Visit Bvents.com, a new business events directory that lists almost 50,000 conferences, trade shows and conventions – worldwide.
- AutoFarm is introducing a new electro-mechanical GPS assisted steering system. The AutoFarm OnTrac2 will debut at World Ag Expo, National Farm Machinery Show and the Canadian Int’l Farm Show.