- The Corporate Council on Africa announced that the United States Agency of International Development will sponsor the 7th Biennial U.S.–Africa Business Summit: Realizing the Investment Power of Africa, to be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2009.
- The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its new officers for 2009–2010. Barbara J. Christ, senior associate dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and professor in the Plant Pathology Department at Penn State University, has been named president for the 2009–2010 term. Click here for a complete listing.
- “Farm Animal Care: Myths vs. Facts” will be the 2009 topic of the annual Farm-City Week Symposium during National Farm-City Week, celebrated Nov. 20 to 26, 2009.
- Monsanto Company announced that it has completed the divestiture of its global sunflower assets to Syngenta.
