• Register here for the 79th National FFA Convention coming up October 25-28 in Indianapolis, IN.
• Wheat growers now have a new herbicide to use. It’s BASF’s Clearmax which will be available for use on winter wheat this season. (pdf)
• Missouri’s ALOT program is seeking applicants for their next class. Applications are due by September 15.
• The Father of the Green Revolution, Dr. Norman Borlaug, is now an honorary member of the CropLife Foundation board of directors.
• The 2006 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange Tour program for cotton producers is set to get started on July 9. These 4 regional tours allow participants to be exposed to innovative practices in regions outside their own.
• Read Darin’s Ramblings (blog) to see what he has to say about ag technology. Darin is a farmer and ag technology consultant.

• You figure this one out. An FAO-led group called IMARK, has issued a new learning tool designed to help specialists and interested parties access and exchange agricultural information online.
• A Purdue University ag economist says that, “farmers should not expect their site-specific tools to remain viable any longer than their home computers.” Find out more on their Site Specific Management Center.
• Delta Farm Press says that Cotton Inc. is now sponsoring Nashville Star.
• Students won scholarship funds at World Ag Exo.
• Missouri Agriculture Industries Council summer meeting announced. Register here.
• The FAO is holding its Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean in Caracas, Venezuela, this week.

• Cowboys are in Washington, DC for NCBA’s Spring Legislative Conference.
• Find out what the Association of Equipment Manufacturers thinks are key public policy initiatives.
• Nitragin acquires Agribiotics and says that LCO Promoter Technology will soon be available in non-legume crop like wheat, cotton and corn.
• Vote for your NAMA Regional Direcor. You have to be a member.
• Pioneer announces new high-moisture corn innoculant.
• Alltech is holding some Kentucky Ale Meetings in California on mycotoxins for vets, nutritionists and dairymen. Call (559) 226-0405 to RSVP.

• Southern States selects SOA software from Skyway Software.
• Brandt Beef selects GTR-Datastar’s GlobalTrack System to source verify beef products.
• Register for NAMA.

I missed World Water Day but I did drink water and take a shower.

Recipe Wizard.

Plant pathology journalism award deadline extended to April 21.

The Fisheries Scholarship Fund awarded 9 research institutes with funds to study the health benefits of seafood and seafood safety technology.

Pork, The Other White Meat brand sold for $60 million.

NAMA has announced the dates for Agri-Marketing Boot Camp and Agribusiness Forum.

Proof that agriculture can be beautiful and worth taking a drive for.

Are cherries a healthy part of your diet?

Consider investing your agriculture marketing dollars in Malaysia.

Former Executive Director of the Florida Dept. of Citrus, Dan Gunter, named President & COO of Alico, Inc.

See an Australian farmer talk about biotech.

New District Agronomist for Mycogen Seeds – Art Graves, Northeast District of the United States.

The Pork Board says Americans need help picking the perfect Easter ham.

China is going to scrap it’s National Agriculture Tax on farmers this year.

The American Livestock Connection is offering free classified ads.

Morgan&Myers named agency of record for Bou-Matic.

Early registration for the IPM Symposium still open.

Leo Melamed Selected to Receive the 2005 CME Fred Arditti Award.

Get a farmers market promotion grant from USDA.

Get Your Farmers Market Resource Guide. (pdf file)

Biomaxx Systems is now a member of Bioenergy Australia.

Find out information about BSE here, here, here and here.

Tiger Beer coming to America via Anheuser-Busch.

I hate it when blight attacks my anthuriums.

Another inconclusive bse test at USDA. I know we want to know but how ’bout when it’s conclusive?

USDA announced 6 biobased items that will now receive special consideration for procurement.

Griffin Bungener has been promoted to account executive at Bader Rutter & Associates in the agency’s account services group.

Crop insurance deadline is coming up March 15.

There’s a new group of officers at NPPC.