- DTN/The Progressive Farmer conducted its quarterly Agriculture and Agribusiness Confidence Index.
- Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced that at the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed two new food safety rules that the agency says will help prevent foodborne illness..
- Peak Soil Indexes, LLC announced the launch of its first farmland index, the “Peak Soil™ Iowa Cropland Value Index”..
