For the second year, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. is excited to partner with the checkoff-funded Beef Quality Assurance program and sponsor BQA certification for all producers who enroll from February 3 through April 15. Georgia Peanut Commission Farm Bill Update Meeting and Webinar will be held on Monday, Feb. 24 at 10:30 a.m and will be broadcast live at the …

Meredith Corporation announced that it has promoted Scott Mortimer to Vice President of Meredith Corporation & Group Publisher at Meredith Agrimedia, effective immediately. CAST has released a new video based on its Issue Paper “Animal Feed vs. Human Food: Challenges and Opportunities in Sustaining Animal Agriculture Toward 2050”. The Agricultural Retailers Association and The Fertilizer Institute announced plans to create …

The American Hereford Association and Hereford World staff are excited to announce Juston Stelzer, Aledo, Texas, is serving as the advertising representative for Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The IFAJ/Alltech Young Leader Program is looking for young journalists with talent and leadership potential The National Cotton Council directors for 2014 were announced at the NCC’s annual meeting held here on February …

Novozymes and Monsanto Company announce they have completed the closing of the The BioAg Alliance, as announced on December 10, 2013. Brownfield Ag News is excited to announce the addition of heritage agriculture radio stations WOWO-AM and WOWO-FM in Fort Wayne and powerhouse station WIKY-FM in Evansville, Indiana to the growing list of affiliate partners carrying Brownfield Ag News programming. …

Ag Engage and Penton Farm Progress Group announce their new Precision Aerial Ag Show, the first-ever outdoor exposition for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) use in agriculture, to be held July 9 and 10, 2014 at Progress City USA, Decatur, Ill. Beck’s Hybrids is excited to announce a continued collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. to conduct on-farm research by providing expertise …

DuPont and the Story County Sheriff’s Office are working together to establish the first-ever Farm Watch program in Iowa to enhance security and safety of rural residents and farmers. MGEX announced that preliminary trading volume reached 26,404 futures and options contracts, breaking the previous daily Exchange volume record by nearly 12 percent. The previous volume record had been set on …

Support for the beef checkoff, at 78 percent, is the highest recorded in the past 21 years, according to a recent survey of 1,225 beef and dairy producers nationwide. The Agrievolution Alliance announces that Japan has joined the alliance and is the 12th member of this global coalition of agricultural equipment manufacturing associations. Hoegemeyer Hybrids, a family-run seed company based …

Once again, the Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Tradeshow is releasing a smartphone app for its 2014 show to be held Feb. 4-7 in Nashville, Tenn. Armond Morris, peanut farmer from Ocilla, Ga., was elected chairman of the Georgia Peanut Commission during the monthly board meeting in January. Kubota Tractor Corporation announced the availability of its first …

The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) announced the launch of GreenDecoys.com, a website devoted to exposing radical environmentalists camouflaged under outdoor-sounding names whose real objective is to serve the interests of their wealthy backers. The Aurora Cooperative, a leading grain marketer and agricultural supplier based in Nebraska and serving America’s farmers in multiple states, announced finalization of its Aurora Agronomy …

MANA announced that it will operate under the new corporate brand name, ADAMA, as of second quarter 2014. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations for the National Peanut Board, due by May 1, 2014. The National FFA Organization Board of Directors and National FFA Foundation Board of Trustees have approved a new consolidated management structure that unifies both …