The Institute of Barley and Malt Sciences announces its first barley day titled Barley Production and Management for Profit to be held on Monday, Jan. 28 at Holiday Inn in Minot North Dakota. Registration for the event will begin at 8:30 am with the program beginning at 9 am. Presentations from research and extension personnel and domestic and international marketing …

Ten outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the CME Group and the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. Each scholarship winner wrote a 750-word essay that identified key issues confronting the beef industry, and suggested possible ways of dealing with those issues. The overall scholarship winner, Rebecca Tokach of Manhattan, Kan., was …

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) reiterated that meat, milk and other products produced from cloned animals will not be able to be sold as organic in the United States. OTA issued the reassurance after the FDA announced its conclusion that foods from cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those produced from traditionally bred animals. FDA posted a …

DuPont has named Nicholas C. Fanandakis group vice president – DuPont Applied BioSciences. In this newly created position, Fanandakis will lead the company’s accelerated efforts to commercialize a range of bio-based products and technologies to meet growing global demand. Fanandakis, 51, currently vice president of planning, previously served four years as vice president and general manager of DuPont Chemical Solutions …

Land O’Lakes, Inc. recently announced a number of changes to the senior leadership team reporting to Land O’Lakes President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Policinski. JP Ruiz-Funes joined Land O’Lakes, effective Jan. 7 as senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Business Development. Barry Wolfish has moved from his previous position in Corporate Strategy and Business Development to create the new …

U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), the wheat industry’s overseas market development organization, is moving its Washington, D.C., office to a new location in Arlington, Va., effective Jan. 12, 2008. The new office address for mail and shipping is 3103 10th Street, North, Suite 300, Arlington, VA, 22201. The general telephone number, (202) 463-0999, will not change, but there will be a …

The American Feed Industry Association and the Poultry Protein & Fat Council will sponsor a Conference On Pet Food Ingredient Quality Jan. 22-23, 2008, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga. The topics to be discussed are: It’s a Small World: Global Perspective on the Pet Food Industry and Ingredient Training; Melamine: Catalyst to Focusing on Ingredient Quality …

The 20th annual Texas High Plains Grain Elevator Workshop is moving to the Ashmore Inn and Suites in Amarillo. Topics of discussion include: railcar fumigation, aeration, new 10,000-bushel storage bags, stored-corn protectants, stored-grain pests, using weather data for early prediction of beetles, weed control, and much more. Pre-registration is requested by Jan. 15. For more information, contact Greg Cronholm at …

Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner reappointed one member and one alternate member to serve on the National Peanut Board. Charles Tennyson Edens, member, Sumter, S.C., and Edward M. Rast Jr., alternate member, Cameron, S.C., will serve three year terms of office beginning Jan. 1, 2008 and ending on Dec. 31, 2010. More information about the research and promotion programs can …

Agrimarketing veteran Janis Jones has joined the Kansas City office of AdFarm as Team Lead for the Bayer CropScience team. Jones brings 20 years of experience in strategic marketing and brand building in agriculture and crop-protection, with a background that includes marketing and strategy direction for agricultural companies such as EDEN Bioscience, Novartis, Case and DuPont. Most recently, Jones worked …