- Syngenta Seed Care was notified that the Arkansas State Plant Board issued a Section 18 Crisis Exemption for the use of Cruiser 5FS seed treatment insecticide for protection against grape colaspis in rice.
- The Pork Checkoff is offering the 2009 Pork Management Conference, Your Pork Industry Investment, May 6-8, in Fort Myers, Fla.
- New Holland’s 40-50 hp Boomer compact cab tractors with EasyDrive Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) usher in a new level of ease and control.
- Hugh Grant, chief executive of the Creve Coeur agricultural biotech giant Monsanto Co., has been named among the world’s best CEOs on Barron’s annual list.