Select Sires is offering for the first time a Select Sires photo contest. Select Sires is looking for new, exciting photos of Select-sired offspring and customers to use in promotions such as calendars, posters, brochures, on the website and much more. Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear Bureau Northwest, has been named president of the World Apple and Pear …

Emily Krueger of West Salem, Ohio, competed against 47 other college students or recent graduates to win the American Farm Bureau’s 2011 Collegiate Discussion Meet at the AFBF Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. helped seedstock producers add value through its Range Ready Health Warranted Breeding Stock program and has now extended its offering to include …

Wyffels Hybrids recently rolled out nine new hybrid families for 2012. James Glassford has joined AgriLabs’ executive management team as V.P. of Marketing. Steley, the first 24/7 Online Auction website specifically for livestock, allows consumers to buy and sell cattle genetics worldwide. Pharm Solutions Inc. announced Weed Pharm, a horticultural BIOPESTICIDE, has received EPA approval for use on organic crops …

Syngenta announced it has received full deregulation for its corn amylase trait from the USDA. Syngenta will sell corn seed with the amylase trait as Enogen corn seed. John Deere is hosting Driver Green events at dealerships across the country, from February through July, for consumers to see and test drive the latest utility tractors and other equipment available from …

EMD Crop BioScience is introducing Ratchet for the 2011 growing season, providing corn and soybean growers with an easy-to-use foliar product that taps into the breakthrough performance advantages of LCO (Lipo-chitooligosaccharide) Promoter Technology. Farm Market iD announced it has made available farm data on over 36,000 growers in California, updated with information from all 58 counties, for the 2010 growing …

The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is inviting Wisconsin dairy producers who are interested in serving the state’s dairy industry and shaping its future to serve as a director on the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. During the recent National Association of Conservation Districts Annual Meeting, members elected a new officer team and approved a set of guiding principles …

Syngenta announced that the National Biosafety Committee (CTNBio) in Brazil has approved its triple corn stack Bt11 x MIR162 x GA21 for cultivation in the country. As an Official Partner of NASCAR, the National Corn Growers Association will leverage its relationship to spread the message to NASCAR fans around the country about the role American farmers play in the development …

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. …

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 …

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 …