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New Year's Resolutions for The Beef Industry in 2014
Jan 3, 2014As we enter the year 2014, I am sure many of you have established personal or business-related goals for the coming year. I know the whole New Year's Resolutions issue can be very exciting to some as we set such lofty goals as weight loss, ...
Tags: Beef Industry, Food
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2013 SMaRT Report Is Available Online at Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee Website
Jan 3, 2014Soybean producers and agribusiness representatives can download the results from 14 different on-farm research projects conducted by the SMaRT program in 2013. The 2013 SMaRT (Soybean Management and Research Technologies) on-farm research ...
Tags: Soybean, agribusiness
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IBM Digital: Fourth Quarter Online Sales Were up 10.3 Percent Year Over Year
Jan 3, 2014According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, fourth quarter online sales were up 10.3 percent year over year. For the period from 10/1/13 through 12/31/13, key drivers were: Mobile Traffic and Sales: Mobile traffic soared, ...
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No Real Fresh News and Business Was Pretty Quiet on The Last Trading Day of 2013
Jan 3, 2014Soybeans were lower on fund and commercial selling. There are some concerns about weather in parts of Argentina, but Brazil looks good and the trade expects a record crop out of the continent. Past that – there was no real fresh news ...
Tags: Soybean, Corn Futures
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Congress Has Decided to Punt Work on The Legislation to January
Jan 3, 2014The Farm Bill reauthorization has been filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, and plenty of intrigue, and now faces another hurdle as Congress has decided to punt work on the legislation to January. The House of Representatives ...
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Hittite Microwave Launched a GaAs MMIC I/Q Upconverter
Jan 3, 2014Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: Hittite, Electrical, Electronics
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Conditions of Small Grains and Canola Declined Over The Past Month
Jan 3, 2014Multiple winter storms kept temperatures below normal for the month of December and brought winter precipitation of all types, according to today's Oklahoma Crop Weather report issued by the USDA-NASS Oklahoma Field Office. December 5-6 a ...
Tags: Wheat, Canola, Agriculture
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New Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology Will Have Broad Implications for Cattle Producers
Jan 3, 2014Technology is being deployed throughout the agricultural sector at an exponentially-increasing pace. Applications of precision agricultural techniques and devices abound when it comes to crop production. Billy Cook, senior vice president ...
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Researchers Have Used Wafer Thinning to Increase The Efficiency
Jan 3, 2014Researchers based in Korea and Egypt have used wafer thinning to increase the efficiency of nitride semiconductor green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Wael Z. Tawfik et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p122103, 2013]. The contributing ...
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Columbia Sportswear Commercial Company - Headquartered in Shanghai
Jan 3, 2014Columbia Sportswear Company said its joint venture with Swire Resources Ltd. commenced operation as planned on Jan. 1, 2014. Also, as previously planned and announced, 29-year Swire Resources veteran Samson Wong was appointed president of ...
Tags: Columbia Sportswear Company, Swire Resources, Samson Wong
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The Number of Additional Equipment That Will Be Added Has Yet to Be Determined
Jan 3, 2014Optimistic about LED lighting long term developments , Taiwanese secondary optical lens manufacturer LedLink purchased a new factory in Yangzhou at the end of 2012 and expanded production capacity in 2013 which is to continue on into 2014. ...
Tags: LED lighting, Ledlink
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Atlas Mountains Defy The Standard Model for Mountain Structure
Jan 3, 2014The Atlas Mountains defy the standard model for mountain structure in which high topography must have deep roots for support, according to a new study from Earth scientists at USC. In a new model, the researchers show that the mountains ...
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Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld Made a Statement Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Jan 3, 2014In 2002, Secretary of state Donald Rumsfeld made a statement regarding weapons of mass destruction that today is still well known. He famously parsed the evidence (or lack thereof) into "known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns." ...
Tags: weapons of mass destruction, evolutionary biology, Donald Rumsfeld
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Silicon Valley VC Initiates to Boost Developer Community in India
Jan 3, 2014Silicon Valley based venture capitalist, Asha Jadeja initiates to boost developer community in India. She organises a Google Glass hackathon at Maker Fest, a non-commercial event, free and open to the publi. The event will be held on ...
Tags: Google Glass, Silicon Valley
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Soybean Oil Remained The Largest Biodiesel Feedstock
Jan 3, 2014Of the 1,093 million lb of feedstocks used to produce biodiesel in October, 50.41% was soybean oil, a 1.21 percentage point decline from September, US Energy Information Administration data showed Monday. Soybean oil remained the largest ...
Tags: Soybean Oil, Biodiesel Production
