TIFTON, GA. – The Georgia Peanut Commission urges consumers to support the peanut industry by donating jars of peanut butter for the U.S. Postal Service Stamp out HungerTM day on Saturday, May 9. This event is the nation’s largest annual single-day food drive. Full Release

(Kansas City, MO 3/31/2009 – AgNewsWire) Careerspotter.com, provider of online industry specific career centers, recently launched AgCareerSpotter.com targeting the agribusiness industry. Developed by agriculture human resources recruiters, AgCareerSpotter.com hopes to make the job search, recruitment and hiring process simpler, faster and more cost effective. Full Release

DULUTH, GA — March 23, 2009 — Spring parasite control pays, and Merial is offering cattle producers the chance to prove it to themselves — risk free— with the IVOMEC Challenge. “For cows and their spring-born calves, benefits of spring parasite control can include increased weaning weights,1-5 improved reproductive performance6 and reduced pasture parasite loads.7 Those benefits all add up …

(February 2, 2009, AgNewsWire) – Jeff Korhan, green industry speaker, video blogger, Internet marketer, and the founder of True Nature will speak on Using Social Media Marketing to Grow Your Business at The Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair on Saturday February 7, 2009 in Joliet, Illinois Full Release

(February 2, 2009, AgNewsWire)Drovers CattleNetwork, an online news service of food360, Vance Publishing Corporation, and Bayer Healthcare announced the launch of the Fly Control Center, an all encompassing, new consumer-oriented website dedicated to fly control management. The Fly Control Center (www.flycontrolcenter.com) is already one of the largest repositories for fly control information on the internet, housing nearly 16,000 documents including …

AgWired has been covering the International Poultry Expo in Atlanta this week and since not very many ag media attend this event we are sending out links to some audio interviews for anyone who might be interested, courtesy of Novus International. Full Release

(Holts Summit, MO – January 22, 2009) The agriculture industry is using new media to harvest a growing audience on the internet. “There are now literally hundreds of blogs relating to agriculture,” according to Chuck Zimmerman, president of ZimmComm New Media, a company which specializes in agricultural and biofuels related blogging and podcasting. “They include farmers or farm wives with …

SAN ANTONIO [Jan. 12, 2009] – A first-of-its-kind report released today creates a framework for measuring agriculture sustainability. Developed to inform long-term continuous improvements in agriculture production, the initial findings indicate crop production is already making progress toward reducing its environmental footprint. The Environmental Resource Indicators report was released at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting by Field to …

December 2, 2008 (Arden Hills, Minn. – AgNewsWire) … Sixteen crop producers from across the country will travel to Las Vegas during the first week of December to participate in the JackPlot™ National Competition and Sweepstakes – a competition focusing on crop production insight and expertise, sponsored by CROPLAN GENETICS® seed and based on the The JackPlot!™ agronomic board game. …

Agriculture is consistently among the most hazardous occupations in the United States. In an average year, 516 workers die while doing farm work and each day about 243 workers suffer lost-time injuries. Agriculture, due to its decentralized nature and diverse structure, lags behind other industries in reducing the toll on its workers with a fatality rate that is eight times …

The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) has announced the national 2008 Ag Day Essay Contest winner, Katlin Wiest. ACA called upon seventh- to 12th-grade students nationwide to submit original essays of 450 words about the importance of agriculture in the United States. Under the theme “Agriculture – Bigger Than You Think,” students were encouraged to focus their essays on the …

National Agriculture Day takes place on the first day of spring as a way to celebrate American agriculture and the farmers who help provide the food, fiber, shelter, energy and other materials we use on a daily basis. In honor of this special time of the year, the Agriculture Council of America (ACA) hosted events in Washington, D.C. on March …