eBusiness Solutions Good for Ag Business (January 2010)

This past Christmas, consumers were expected to spend $44.7 billion without ever stepping foot in a store. In the worst retail year in decades, online holiday retail sales were expected to grow by 8 percent. Sales increases like that happen because successful e-business retailers are in constant electronic communications up and down the supply chain.

AgGateway Presents Agriculture eBusiness Excellence Award to GROWMARK (January 2010)

AgGateway, a non-profit consortium of businesses serving the agriculture industry, today announced it has awarded GROWMARK, Inc., a regional agricultural cooperative based in Bloomington, Ill., with the sixth annual Ag eBusiness Excellence Award for its pioneering use of technology and implementation of the AgGateway tools and standards.

Richard Sellers (AFIA) Message at FDA (December 2009)

Richard Sellers spoke about feed safety issues and the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program at a public meeting sponsored by two federal agencies in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10. The meeting was sponsored jointly by the Food and Drug Administration and the Food Safety and Inspective Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.