- The FDA has granted approval for feeding Optaflexx (ractopamine hydrochloride) to beef cattle as a topdress to increase live weight gain and improve feed efficiency during the final 28 days to 42 days of the finishing period.
- Farm Market iD announced it has made available for commercial use previously unavailable information on more than 26,000 agricultural producers in Florida derived from local ownership records, and enhanced by GIS data and satellite imagery.
- CHS Inc., announced it has named veteran agribusiness leader Carl Casale as its new president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2011.
- Boot Media, LLC, announced that “PegasusTV” will launch as digital channel 57.4 in the 10-county Houston television market on March 1, 2011, the first local affiliate channel of the new nationwide Pegasus Television Network.
