- Bayer CropScience officially opened its new Cotton Research and Development Laboratory in Lubbock, Texas.
- New Holland’s new WORKMASTER tractors bear a trusted name, and the same important qualities that made the original WORKMASTER tractors so popular in the 1960s.
- A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ethanol-tolerant than the bacteria in which these structures are normally found.
- Steve Pickle and Eddie Walley have joined SFP as regional account managers, and Jennie Martin has stepped into a newly developed position as event coordinator.