- Pioneer Hi-Bred announced Bill Even, South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture, has accepted a key role in its Biotech Affairs and Regulatory Department as senior manager, Government, Community and Industry Relations.
- StollerUSA is looking for amazing crop photos and Stoller success stories for entry in the 2011 StollerUSA calendar contest. Judges will select a total of 12 stories/photographs from the 2010 growing season to be published—one for each month. The Grand Prize winner will receive a $500 cash prize.
- Cheryl Koompin of American Falls, Idaho, was elected chairman of the United States Potato Board.
- An international team of scientists publicly released the peach genome sequence, the first genome completed for crops in the Rosaceae family. The data that comprises the peach genome is housed at Washington State University on the USDA-funded Genome Database for Rosaceae.
