- The new Sustainable Beef Resource Center’s (SBRC) mission to provide useful, science-based information to the entire food chain. The SBRC currently is working with third-party experts to create an environmental-impact model and economic analysis of technologies used to help produce wholesome, affordable beef.
- Farm Journal Television announces the launch of “Corn College TV,” a new, national 30-minute weekly program focusing on agronomics and the skills farmers must develop to grow stronger, healthier and better-yielding crops. The program launches September 1 on the RFD-TV network.
- The European Commission announced that it has granted import, food, feed and processing approvals for biotechnology maize products jointly developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred and Dow AgroSciences LLC.
- The first BuyHereford.com online fund-raising auction for the Hereford Research Foundation fetched more than $20,000 to benefit Hereford research projects. Nineteen items were sold and more than 200 total bids were placed throughout the auction.
