Foremost Farms USA will offer up to 10 scholarships worth $2,000 each to member-owners and the children of member-owners in 2014. The Agricultural Education Scholarships will be awarded to students who are pursuing a career in the agricultural field.

George Cashell of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, has been elected chairman of the board of trustees for the All-American Dairy Foundation (AADF). Irene Osborne of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, was elected vice-chairwoman. The elections took place at the Penn Stater Conference Center prior to activities of the Pennsylvania Holstein Association’s 100th anniversary celebration.

The 2013 cottonseed crop is one of the smallest in years, according to Larry Johnson, of Cottonseed LLC, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Growers harvested 7.78 million acres of cotton in 2013 – the lowest total since 2009. Last year’s crop yielded 5.67 million tons of cottonseed, whereas the 2013 crop is projected to yield 4.357 million tons – a 25 percent decline.

Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles on the Precision Dairy Technology Forum hosted by Penn State University. Click here to read the first article. Group calf housing is back Dr. Jud Heinrichs, a Penn State University professor of dairy science, and Jared Yousey a DeLaval herd management specialist for the northeast region, both spoke about the strengths and challenges of group calf housing and automatic calf feeding systems during the Precision Dairy Technology Forum hosted by Penn State University Extension in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 18.

Accelerated Genetics (AG) is offering scholarships to high school seniors and college students interested in careers in the agriculture industry. Applicants or their parents must be current active customers of AG to be eligible for both types of scholarships, which are as follows:

My Facebook newsfeed has been blowing up with daily notifications about what each of my friends are thankful for.Most posts are thoughtful and what you’d expect around the holidays – faith, family and feeling satisfied with their careers and farms.

Click here to download a PDF of the latest export watch, provided by the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC). PD