- The National Corn Growers Association welcomes Sara Neagu, who joins the organization as the legislative assistant for the Washington office.
- broadhead, a leading marketing communications agency connecting the interests of urban and rural consumers, has announced the hiring of Elizabeth Holum and the promotions of Karen Johnson and Natalie Hoover.
- Douglas L. Edgeton, a veteran of the healthcare and economic development sectors, will be the next president and chief executive officer of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the Board of Directors
- Amid excellent crop growing conditions and lower grain prices, farmland values in the Midwest and Mid-South continued to decline during the second quarter of 2014, according to the latest Agricultural Finance Monitor published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.