Farm Foundation has added a book award to its prestigious roster of annual awards. The Farm Foundation Book of the Year Award is open to a non-fiction English language work focused on food and/or agriculture published within the last 24 months.
International development and research investments create benefits on multiple fronts, including improving climate resilience, food trade, infrastructure, farmers’ access to finance, and global nutrition, particularly for women, according to speakers at the event on Wednesday, hosted by Farm Journal Foundation on the sidelines of this year’s World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. The event, titled Avoiding a Collision: How We Can Both Nourish and Preserve Our World, covered the tension between how farmers and the agricultural industry can continue to nourish a growing global population while also helping to mitigate climate change.
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) announced the 2024 Rising Stars, a group of top-performing emerging leaders in the agricultural retail industry, and a new Fan Favorite social media challenge. The ARA Rising Stars award program, sponsored by Atticus, is a meaningful way for ARA member companies to recognize employees for their work in front of hundreds of industry professionals at the annual ARA Conference & Expo and to explore new ways to hone leadership skills. This year’s award theme is Empowering Leadership through the Next Frontier, which guides the videos created by each Rising Star.
Four outstanding agriculture advocates were recently announced by the American Farm Bureau Federation. The 2024 GO Teamers of the Year are Laura Haffner from Kansas, Julie Hardy from Georgia, and Renee McPherson and Linda Pryor from North Carolina. These outstanding individuals have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advocating for farmers and ranchers through a variety of impactful activities.
Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler were honored as the 2024 World Food Prize Laureates for their work in preserving and protecting the world’s heritage of crop biodiversity and mobilizing this resource to defend against threats to global food security. Over the past 50 years, their combined efforts have succeeded in engaging governments, scientists, farmers and civil society towards the conservation of over 6,000 species of crops and culturally important plants.
The Charleston Orwig Collective excitedly shares its president and CEO, Marcy Tessmann, has been named a 2025 Wisconsin Titan 100 by The Titan 100 program. The Titan 100 gives this prestigious award to Wisconsin’s Top 100 CEOs & C-level executives.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing payments to agricultural producers impacted by natural disasters, including $143 million in crop insurance indemnities for Florida producers impacted by Hurricane Milton and more than $92 million for livestock producers, nationwide, who faced increased supplemental feed costs as a result of forage losses due to 2022 qualifying drought and wildfire. The payments for Milton-impacted Florida producers are for those who have Federal crop insurance coverage through the Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index (HIP-WI) endorsement and the Tropical Storm (TS) option.
Syngenta Group announced financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2024. Sales for the third quarter 2024 were $6.8 billion, flat compared to the prior year period. Syngenta Crop Protection sales were 16 percent lower at $9.5 billion in the first nine months of 2024. Seeds sales were $3.2 billion in the first nine months of 2024, down two percent year-on-year.
Ken Bader, longtime head of the American Soybean Association, died November 26 in Chesterfield, Missouri at the age of 90. Bader led ASA for 16 years, from 1976 to 1992, and his work led to the creation of the national soy checkoff and United Soybean Board.
Nominations are now open for the Outstanding Georgia Young Peanut Farmer Award. The state winner will be announced at the Georgia Peanut Farm Show on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Tifton, Georgia. The award is sponsored by the Georgia Peanut Commission and BASF.
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP) announces the members of Leadership Sorghum Class VII. This program, hosted by the USCP, is designed to cultivate the next generation of leaders and advocates for the sorghum industry. The first session will take place Dec. 10-12, 2024, in Lubbock, Texas, during the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board meeting.
