The 28th National Beef Cook-Off will come to California in late September. Home cooks nationwide, and local professional restaurant chefs working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan area counties are encouraged to enter their original, newly developed best beef recipes by March 31, 2009. Neogen Corporation has received approval from the FDA and National Conference on Interstate …

To encourage and support higher education for relatives of FCS Financial members, FCS Financial will again offer up to 35 scholarships valued at $1,000 each. The scholarship deadline is March 1. Apply here. This summer, FMC Corporation and Crop Production Services sponsored the 2008 Bin Buster tour across the Midwest, hosting technical meetings where crop producers could enjoy a free …

Pioneer Hi-Bred is releasing 96 new Pioneer brand corn products to growers across North America for the 2009 planting season. This new advancement class includes 39 new genetic platforms providing improved genetic gain across all maturities. The National Biodiesel Board announced Jessica Robinson has been named Senior Communications Specialist to enhance the organization’s communications efforts in promoting the widespread benefits …

MetaFarms, Inc. announced the launch of Report Manager, a new application within i-Production that enables users to customize, schedule, email and fax reports. Pfizer Animal Genetics has made new advancements in Arthrogryposis Multiplex diagnostics to improve its testing capacity. Investments in equipment and an improved testing methodology enable Pfizer to run larger numbers of samples more efficiently. Sociedad Quimica y …

Israel invites you to register for one of the following International Agricultural Training Centre programmes from March 19 – April 6, 2009: Agribusiness, Export and Marketing Management, Water and Crop Production Management or The Role of Agro-technology in Poverty Alleviation and Food Security. Monsanto announced the names of the high school seniors being awarded Deltapine Class of ‘09 scholarships to …

The Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives and Minnesota Association of Cooperatives announces that its new name is Cooperative Network. The new name is effective Jan. 1, 2009. CSI Safener 500FS, new from Bayer CropScience, adds another line of protection for sorghum growers shielding treated grain and forage sorghum seed from the phytotoxic effects of metolachlor or S-metolachlor herbicides. The deadline for …

AgriMarketing magazine’s annual Marketing Services Guide is now available to viewed on-line. To view, click here. American Vanguard Corporation announced that Trevor Thorley has been named as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of its principal operating subsidiary, AMVAC Chemical Corporation, effective immediately. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has announced Forrest L. Roberts will be its next chief executive …

American Agri-Women provides two scholarships for farm, ranch or agribusiness women or their daughters, to pursue accredited courses in ag leadership, communications, rural sociology, medicine, or any other courses directly related to agriculture. Each scholarship is for $500, to be used for tuition. Applications for each are due by June 1 of each year. Lessiter Publications, Inc., is pleased to …

Pioneer Hi-Bred and MapShots announced Pioneer will acquire controlling ownership of MapShots Inc. This new relationship will allow Pioneer to extend its Pioneer FIT mapping service and information available through GrowingPoint Web site record-keeping service. Kip Cullers of Purdy, Mo., won the Missouri Soybean Association’s 14th Annual Yield Contest with the top overall yield with 117.1 bushels per acre using …

The R-CALF USA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the group’s 10th annual convention and trade show will take place Jan. 23-24, 2009, at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Rapid City, S.D. Individuals interested in precision agriculture should mark their calendars for the next edition of the popular Information Agriculture Conference, set for July 14-16, 2009, at …