BASF Podcast: Plant Health – Fit With Fungicides: In this podcast you will learn how innovative fungicides from BASF help to improve plant health. Responding to President Obama’s directive to upgrade the nation’s food safety system, the White House Food Safety Working Group, led by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, launched a …

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., selected Woodruff Sweitzer to manage advertising, strategic consultation and brand development for its swine products division. True Media has been chosen to handle media planning and buying. Five top farm supply retail businesses and one vegetation management and forestry applicator have been selected as Environmental Respect Award regional winners in the United States for 2009. Numerous …

The National Milk Producers Federation hailed the announcement by the USDA that it will finally apply the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, 25 years after the national 15 cent checkoff was first applied to U.S.‐produced milk. Grundfos Pumps has selected Nicholson Kovac Inc. as its integrated marketing communications partner for strategies targeting the agricultural market segment. American Farmland …

In recognition of their vision, inspirational efforts and leadership that has helped shape today’s cattle feeding industry, Paul F. Engler and the late William D. “W.D.” Farr are honored as the inaugural inductees into the newly established Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame. Kuhn North America, Inc., of Brodhead, Wis., introduces the new GF 7802 T, six-rotor, trailed rotary tedder with …

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced the results of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board 2009 Board of Directors election. Click here for the list of elected members. Archer Daniels Midland Company Chairman and CEO Patricia Woertz announced ADM Cares, a social investment program that targets up to one percent of pretax earnings to initiatives that …

Syngenta announced that the yield average of acreage enrolled in the 2008 AgriEdge Soybean Program exceeded the 2008 USDA national average by 38 percent. More than 3 million acres in 15 states were enrolled in the program, a 50 percent increase over 2007 AgriEdge program enrollment. Church & Dwight Co., Inc.’s Specialty Product Division announced the addition of Michael Cain, …

Georgia-Pacific Plant Nutrition announces that three distributors in the Southeast U.S. are adding Nitamin Steady-Delivery plant nutrition to their existing nitrogen product lines. Agreements mean broader availability of Nitamin Nfusion and Nitamin 30L fertilizers. GRUPO LALA and Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. announced that LALA has acquired milk processing company National Dairy from DFA. Filament Marketing, LLC, announces that Jon …

McCormick Company in Kansas City has recently been awarded two Pro-Comm awards by the Business Marketing Association for excellence in b2b marketing communications. Syngenta Crop Protection announced that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation has granted Section 18 emergency exemption approval of Inspire fungicide for use on Alternaria in almond orchards in Butte, Glenn, Kern and Tehama counties. With help …

Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc., has revised its name to Marrone Bio Innvations, Inc., in a move to more accurately represent the company’s leadership in the discovery and development of effective and environmentally responsible pesticide active ingredients from novel biological sources. Neogen Corporation has acquired International Diagnostic Systems Corp. A part of IDS’s operations will be relocated to and integrated with …

John Deere Ag Management Solutions and Raven Industries, Inc. announced an agreement to supply customers with a broad suite of application control solutions in the precision agricultural market. Monsanto has signed a new three year trademark licensing agreement with Chapin International. Chapin will provide new sprayer technology for use with agricultural herbicide products including Roundup PROMAX and QuikPRO. Pfizer Animal …