AgCareers.com is offering a Webinar on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at 11 a.m., “Coaching and Mentoring Strategies for Success.” AgVenture Frontier Hybrids has hired Charlie Maddux as the company’s sales and marketing manager. Eighty-five students from 11 universities competed for top honors in the 2009 Collegiate Weed Science Contest. Among the challenges: Identify more than two dozen weeds on sight. …

Syngenta Crop Protection announced Callisto Xtra as the brand name for a new, post-emergence corn herbicide that will be an excellent tank mix partner for glyphosate in glyphosate-tolerant corn. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced that it has initiated a multi-year sponsorship project, supporting the Shire Highlands Milk Producers Association in Malawi. Alltech’s Yea-Sacc1026, a live yeast culture based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

Pioneer Hi-Bred announced the company’s Pioneer Premium Seed Treatment offering for the 2010 planting season. The announcement by the Center for Science in the Public Interest naming potatoes to the list of the “Top 10 Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration” requires some important clarification so as not to raise unnecessary alarm or confusion among consumers. …

ClimateMinder, Inc. offers farmers and greenhouse growers flexible new remote monitoring and control systems. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has presented the National FFA Organization with a contribution of $15,000 to support a new pilot contest through which students will produce videos creatively explaining the benefits and sustainability of modern agricultural methods. Less than 5 percent of farms saw an …

Syngenta was ranked among the Top 20 Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Employers according to survey results published in a special feature of today’s edition of Science magazine. MGEX (“the Exchange”) announced strong September 2009 growth in its Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) futures and options volume and open interest numbers. The National Sorghum Producers announced that Gerald Simonsen will assume leadership …

Pfizer Animal Genetics has expanded its genetic defect testing capabilities to encompass three new diagnostic tests and new combined tests. Hoosier Ag Today, Indiana’s only Hoosier-owned farm radio network, began its 4th year of operation in September. A new development project in the life sciences arena was announced Wednesday (Sept. 30) as part of a new agricultural collaboration among Dow …

Acclaimed television host, network news anchor, author and business entrepreneur Bill Kurtis has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Inaugural MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME Induction Ceremony in Chicago on Oct. 27. The American National CattleWomen Inc is excited to announce the launch of College Aggies Online, a new program aimed at helping today’s college students …

Farm audits for the second herd retirement implemented by Cooperatives Working Together in 2009 have been completed, and the majority of the 74,114 cows that produced 1.5 billion pounds of milk have been sent to processing plants. CHS Inc., and Agrico Group have formed a joint venture company named ACG to manage origination, logistics, export and worldwide marketing of Russian …

NPD Group Vice President Harry Balzer, a leading expert and spokesperson on the food, beverage and foodservice industries, will be one of the general session speakers at POTATO EXPO 2010. TerraSphere System engineers have developed a solid state lighting system that is currently being used to support plant germination. The company is working to apply their advanced system to support …

Arenus announces that STEADFAST CANINE will sponsor the 2009 DockDogs National Championship scheduled for Oct. 16-18 at King’s Island Resort in Mason, Ohio. Invited guests gathered with 300 employees in Minnetonka, Minn., to celebrate the grand opening of the new Syngenta Seeds, Inc., headquarters building for North America. AgVenture Spangler Seed has announced they’ve hired seed sales professional Art Tessmann …