Syngenta Seedcare announced Ryan McGruder, a rice grower from Wynne, Ark., as the grand-prize winner of the CruiserMaxx Rice Sweepstakes, which celebrated the recent launch of CruiserMaxx Rice, the first insecticide/fungicide seed treatment combination for rice. Advanta US, Inc., announces the addition of Steve Ligon as business manager. All three DuPont biofuels collaborations received top honors in the 2010 “Transformative …
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Syngenta Seeds, Inc. has received approval from Japanese regulatory authorities for the Agrisure Viptera trait and the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack. This approval clears the way for U.S. corn growers to plant corn hybrids with the Agrisure Viptera trait during the 2011 planting season. Premier Power, LLC has designed a new, mobile PTO power source for farm operations needing …
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Adam Wells-Morgan, executive chef of The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Mo., won top honors in the 21st annual National Taste of Elegance contest in Baltimore, Md. The competition was sponsored by the Pork Checkoff. Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, has been named a 2010 World Food Prize laureate. As the official ice cream of …
You Don’t Work
So here’s how our conversation went: Him: “You don’t work. You’ve done PR for 10 years now, but you don’t really work.” Me: *stunned look on my face.* “You mean just because I don’t spend all day outside in 100 degree weather, you think I don’t work?” Him: “Well, you don’t build anything. You don’t make anything. What do you …
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Gene Nemechek, a swine veterinarian from Springdale, Ark., has been elected president of the National Pork Board by his fellow board members. The board also elected Everett Forkner, a pork producer from Richards, Mo., vice president. Makhteshim Agan of North America, the manufacturer of endosulfan, announced the reasons behind its voluntary participation in the plan to withdraw endosulfan over time. …
BASF Contest for Agvocacy Conference
BASF Plant Science is excited to celebrate National Dairy Month with the kickoff of its NutriDense® Silage Web Moo.0 contest, our own dairy version of the popular “Web 2.0″ designation for social media. Enter the NutriDense Silage Web Moo.0 contest by Friday, July 9, and show us how you’re telling dairy’s story. With the help of the AgChat Foundation, BASF …
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The National Milk Producers Federation has a new Vice Chairman and three new board members. John Underwood was elected the Third Vice Chairman of NMPF. The new Board members include: Mickey Childers of Somerville, Ala.; Dan Senestraro of Johnson, Kan.; and Jim Werkhoven of Monroe, Wash. Syngenta Crop Protection announced that Inspire Super fungicide received EPA approval for use on …
PureSense Adds Irrigation Manager iPhone App
PureSense Environmental Inc. announced that its Irrigation Manager iPhone application is now available through the iTunes App Store. Built as a mobile platform for PureSense subscribers, the PureSense app brings the reporting power growers have come to expect from Irrigation Manager to the iPhone, allowing the grower to be more informed, efficient and mobile than ever before. Growers can access …
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The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal released a list of the top 100 Minnesota private companies, listed by revenue. Food and agriculture companies are a leading demographic in this list, holding nearly 40% of the spots. Further, the Agri-Growth Council is proud to have six companies included in their membership within the top ten. The U.S. Wheat Associates have developed an …
AG CONNECT Expo 2011 Set For Georgia
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and AG CONNECT Expo 2011 announced they are teaming up in 2011 with the co-location of the 2011 AFBF Annual Meeting and AG CONNECT Expo 2011, both to be held in early January 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga. AFBF’s 2011 Annual Meeting will be Jan. 9-12, while the AG …