- Syngenta announced it has received full deregulation for its corn amylase trait from the USDA. Syngenta will sell corn seed with the amylase trait as Enogen corn seed.
- John Deere is hosting Driver Green events at dealerships across the country, from February through July, for consumers to see and test drive the latest utility tractors and other equipment available from John Deere.
- The next president of the National Chicken Council will be Mike Brown, currently senior vice president for legislative affairs of the American Meat Institute.
- Keith Baioni, business manager of crop protection products for Jimmy Sanders, Cleveland, Miss., and Steve Muhlenbruch, agronomist for Farmer’s Cooperative Company, Dows, Iowa, were selected as Resistance Fighters of the Year for their leadership and advocacy efforts to manage glyphosate-resistant weeds in 2010.
