Monsanto’s Roundup Rewards® Program Expands
WALNUT CREEK, CA (March 22, 2007)—Valent U.S.A. Corporation announced that Select Max® Herbicide with Inside Technology(TM) will again be a part of Monsanto’s Roundup Rewards® Program in 2007. This year the program, which was available for Midwest farmers in 2006, will also be offered to Select Max users in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. In 2007, Roundup Ready® soybean farmers will continue to have even more insurance to protect their investment against volunteer Roundup Ready corn when they use Select Max® Herbicide with Inside Technology(TM). But this insurance they can take to the bank—literally. Farmers who use Select Max with Roundup WeatherMAX® will…
Indy Car Races up the Hill
Washington DC – (March 21, 2007)(AgNewsWire) Indiana Senators Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh joined with members of the ethanol industry and the Team Ethanol IndyCar and driver outside the Senate Building on National Agriculture Day to mark the use of 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol in the IndyCar Series starting this weekend. Representatives from the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) coordinated the event, which received a high level of media attention. EPIC Executive Director Tom Slunecka said several other lawmakers in addition to Sens. Lugar and Bayh attended the event as well. “Lawmakers understand that ethanol is bringing a change in this country,” said Slunecka. “Our dependence on foreign…
Mizzou BBQ Team Scores With Tiger Steak
Columbia, MO (AgNewsWire) The University of Missouri-Columbia’s Mizzou BBQ Team made a name for itself in a national cooking competition recently with “Tiger Steak.” According to team captain Greg Chase, the team was just organized in May of last year and has already been very successful. “Our first competition out of the gate in September we took first place in Beef Brisket, beating out 28 professional barbeque teams in the state,” said Chase. “From that, we were invited to go to the National Meat Association Meat Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada in February.” For that event, Chase says the team was asked to produce a brand new meat product for competition. “So we did some…
Celebrate Nutrition Month With Beef
Columbia, MO (AgNewsWire) March is National Nutrition Month and the Missouri Beef Industry Council (MBIC) is encouraging consumers to kick the fads and get back to the basics. MBIC Director of Consumer Information Alane Lidolph says the theme for National Nutrition Month this year is “100 Percent Fad-Free.” “National Nutrition Month is sponsored every March by the American Dietetic Association and it’s a nutrition education and information campaign really designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food decisions and developing healthy and sound eating and physical activity habits.” Lidolph says the theme this year highlights the latest government dietary guidelines outlined in USDA’s MyPyramid program. “The beef industry has been supportive of…
Branding Program Gains Momentum
Tampa, Florida (March 2, 2007) (AgNewsWire) The ethanol industry is making progress towards the goal of helping consumers readily identify ethanol-enhanced fuel at the pump no matter where they are in the country. Seven states have now officially approved labels that incorporate the “e” brand to mark pumps that dispense E10, or ten percent ethanol fuel, according to the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). Those states are Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Arkansas and Ohio. EPIC is spreading the good news this week to corn growers meeting this week in Tampa, Florida at the 2007 Commodity Classic. EPIC Director of Operations Robert White said they are pleased with the progress made in just…
Missouri Beef Producer Relishes Role on National Level
Columbia, MO (AgNewsWire) A cattleman from Sedalia is representing Missouri on the national level on two different beef cattle organizations. David Dick, immediate past chairman of the Missouri Beef Industry Council, has been re-elected for a second term to serve on the Operating Committee for the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. The committee is made up of 20 cattle producer representatives who make decisions about how the $1 per head Beef Checkoff is spent on the national level. Dick has also been elected to represent Region Three for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). “I now represent Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin on the NCBA executive committee,” said Dick. “And I will carry not only the…
