- World Dairy Expo’s Board of Directors elected eight individuals to the Executive Committee at their annual meeting.
- Fresh mushrooms, one of the top 20 best-selling produce items in 2010, outperformed produce retail sales as a whole in terms of both dollars and pounds sold.
- The United States Potato Board grower membership recently elected new leadership during its annual meeting.
- Merck and sanofi-aventis announced the mutual termination of their agreement to form a new animal health joint venture by combining Merial, the animal health business of sanofi-aventis, with Intervet/Schering-Plough, Merck’s animal health unit.