- DuPont has announced that Chair and CEO, Ellen Kullman, will retire from the company effective October 16. Edward Breen, member of the DuPont Board of Directors, will act as Interim Chair and CEO of DuPont at that time. The search has begun to find a permanent replacement.
- Brookside Agra has expanded its new Agronomy Division. The new unit will be headed up by Agronomy Technician Karen Nehrkorn of DuBois, Illinois.
- Crop Vitality, a business unit of Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc., recently opened a new liquid plant nutrient manufacturing facility in Hanford. The grand opening was celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
- Lystek’s award-winning, biosolids and organics processing technology has received registration from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for its LysteGro product. The new product is a true, organically-based, quality controlled biofertilizer.