However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit. Projected crop budgets generally show some return to labor and management for 2014, although the price of most crops ...
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One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
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The food processing industry and its raw food supplier allies have been clever at marketing their products as healthy while attacking the foods they replace as unhealthy. And it has worked both ways. Saturated fats including coconut oil ...
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Six months ago, California "raw milk man" James Stewart was sitting in a jail cell in Los Angeles county, shivering from hypothermia, his body wrapped in chains from hands to ankles. He had been raided at gunpoint by the LA County Sheriff's ...
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Why peaches were so good this summer Washington State University (WSU) researchers have tested 1,900 advanced breeding lines of wheat and more than 20,000 individual wheat plots and did not find any evidence of a herbicide-resistance ...
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Sichuan Hebang Corporation announces that it plans to spend CNY 501 million building a glyphosate project with an annual output capacity being 50,000 tons. The company takes over technologies and equipment of glyphosate project Shuncheng ...
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US-based agricultural solution provider Dow AgroSciences has received approval for Enlist E3 soybeans - the latest innovation in soybean technology - from the authorities of Canada. According to the company, Enlist E3 soybeans are part of ...
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Please send a thank you note to Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, The Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE #302, Washington, D.C. 20003. Thank him for the opportunity to spend far more money than necessary to control weeds ...
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The Australian sharemarket roared back yesterday, recovering most of its 75-point loss on Monday, after a US Federal Reserve official reiterated the central bank's commitment to quantitative easing, local retail sales exceeded expectations ...
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is calling for submissions on an application to change the Food Standards Code to permit food derived from a genetically modified soybean. FSANZ chief executive officer Steve McCutcheon said ...
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking feedback on an application to change the Food Standards Code to allow food derived from a genetically modified canola. FSANZ chief executive officer Steve McCutcheon said the ...
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The European Food Safety Authority(EFSA)has said that it is safe to use genetically modified(GM)oilseed rape in foods. Bayer CropBioscience developed oilseed rape,which is resistant to glufosinate-ammonium-containing herbicides,reported ...
A rice transplanter is a specialized transplanter fitted to transplant rice seedlings onto paddy field. Although rice is grown in areas other than Asia, rice transplanters are used mainly in East, Southeast, and South Asia. This is because ...