- Farm Market iD announced that the Farm Market iD Database has been updated with 2012 crop year data.
- Smithfield Foods is on track to complete an industry-leading goal of phasing out individual gestation stalls in favor of group housing for pregnant sows at all company-owned sow farms by 2017.
- DuPont and Pannar Seed Limited closed on a transaction in which DuPont Pioneer acquired majority ownership in Pannar, a South Africa-based seed company with operations throughout Africa and in other parts of the world.
- Syngenta is set again to expand its Innovation Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., USA.
