Vance Publishing Corp.’s Protein Division now provides subscribers with species business information via daily, weekly, ALERT and monthly e-newsletters as well as species specific websites: DroversCattleNetwork, DairyHerdNetwork and PorkNetwork. A new partnership with Schoolmenu.com provides the Pear Bureau with a unique opportunity to educate families and school foodservice operators about healthy, fresh pears and their unique appeal to school-age kids. …
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The National Soybean Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois is organizing the upcoming Corporate Social Responsibility Conference: Nutrition Solutions for Central America in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The U.S. EPA has granted DuPont registration approval for DuPont Perspective, Streamline and Viewpoint herbicides. The London-based commodity consultancy VM Group launches Worldcrops.com, a unique service that gathers in one web-based location all …
Largest-ever Beef Donation in Colorado
It’s easy to think that in the land of the plenty, everyone has consistent access to high-quality, nourishing foods, like beef. However, according to the USDA, in 2009, more than 50 million Americans were food insecure and did not have consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle. Today, in conjunction with the largest gathering of the nation’s …
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Michael Steele’s research recently garnered him global recognition as a 2010 global winner of Alltech’s Young Scientist Competition. Download the agenda for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, “Today’s Issues: Up Close and Personal”. John Deere announces that, once again, it will partner with the Agriculture Council of America, and other …
Preparing the Land
Snow. We all complain about it, at least in my household we do. We have to shovel, the car is a mess, it’s cold and the garage floor is covered in gravel brought in by our tires. But, I’m slowly learning to love it again because my 2-year-old looks like the Michelin Tire Man in his snow suit and it …
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The Georgia Peanut Commission Board of Directors will be holding a public hearing for peanut farmers to determine the need for increasing peanut assessments which fund programs of the commodity commission. The hearing will be held Wed., Feb. 9 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus, NESPAL. Kimberly Clark has joined the Nebraska Corn Board staff as ag …
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Thanks to the work of researchers at Dow AgroSciences, LLC, who have been collaborating with a University of Missouri researcher, a new weapon may be on the horizon to eliminate superweeds. Rhino is proud to introduce the new AGM disc mower series. Balchem Corporation announced expansion at two of its Animal Nutrition and Health production plants in St. Gabriel, La., …
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High school and two-year college students are invited to apply for a $1,000 scholarship from the CHS Foundation. Lessing-Flynn was named the newest member of the Intermarket Agency Network. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is the recipient of the National Association of Wheat Growers’ 2010 Wheat Leader of the Year Award, the wheat industry’s highest public service award. FBSciences, Inc., has …
Gundersen Named Soybean Research Lab Director
Associate Professor Craig Gundersen has been selected as the Director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory (NSRL) at the University of Illinois in Urbana – Champaign. Gundersen is an accomplished scholar, educator, author, and one of the nation’s foremost experts in the areas of food insecurity research and the evaluation of food assistance programs. He is Associate Professor in the …
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Farm
I’ve written before about my great-grandmother. What I didn’t tell you is that she died three months before I was born. From the stories my brother tells me, she always had a cookie jar on top of the fridge, filled with cookies or candy that were just sure to ruin his supper (which is another word I had to re-work …