- Syngenta Seedcare announced Ryan McGruder, a rice grower from Wynne, Ark., as the grand-prize winner of the CruiserMaxx Rice Sweepstakes, which celebrated the recent launch of CruiserMaxx Rice, the first insecticide/fungicide seed treatment combination for rice.
- Advanta US, Inc., announces the addition of Steve Ligon as business manager.
- All three DuPont biofuels collaborations received top honors in the 2010 “Transformative Technologies 30” survey, conducted by Biofuels Digest. The DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol joint venture and the DuPont partnership with Bio Architecture Lab to develop macroalgae to butanol capabilities placed first, while the Butamax Advanced Biofuels joint venture placed second in their respective categories.
- The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) recognized the latest winners of its annual student engineering and mechanization awards during the recent American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ annual international meeting.
