WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
Biena debuts Rockin’ Ranch, the latest in its line of roasted chickpea snacks. "Biena is a small food company on a big mission - to revolutionize the way Americans snack," said Poorvi Patodia, founder and CEO of Biena. "With Rockin' ...
Tags: Biena, Chickpea snacks
Crown Beverage Packaging Mexico has introduced two new beverage can sizes to better serve beverage companies in the Latin American region. Two additional beverage can sizes, including 9.1 oz. sleek style and 11 oz. standard format, have ...
Tags: Crown, Beverage, New can sizes
The iPhone 7 might be a long way off, but that doesn’t mean leaks are any less frequent. A case for Apple’s next flagship iPhone has seemingly been leaked online. The YouTube channel Unbox Therapy, known for its track record ...
Tags: iPhone 7, Aplle, Smartphone
The Government's plans to change Sunday trading laws in England and Wales, which would allow larger shops to trade for more than six hours, have been scrapped after being rejected by MPs. The plans were rejected by 317 votes to 286, ...
Tags: Sunday trading laws, Large shops, MPs
John Lewis has continued to outperform the market in uncertain trading conditions, with gross sales up 2.8% to £4.56bn (4.4% on a 52 week basis). To ensure that customers can shop whenever and however they want, John Lewis has ...
Tags: John Lewis, Trade condition, Annual summary
UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...
Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support
Gloria Jean’s is now selling a “one cup filter” coffee maker in its Australian cafes. The filter allows consumers to make their own filtered coffee at home. It uses silver foil filters instead of the usual paper ones. ...
Tags: Gloria Jean, One Cup Filter, Coffee, Cafe
India based global flexible packaging company Uflex, in partnership with foreign technology partner, has developed the Flexfresh equilibrium modified atmospheric packaging (EMAP) which can extend the shelf life of fresh produce. Uflex ...
Tags: Uflex, EMAP, CO2, Packaging, Shelf life, Fresh produce
South China University of Technology has shown improved power and efficiency performance for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with 1.2% indium-content multiple-quantum-well (MQW) barriers [Zhiting Lin et al, J. ...
The universities of Virginia and of Texas in the USA have been developing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) based on aluminium indium arsenide antimonide (AlInAsSb) alloys. Two papers from the group detail the implementation of a staircase ...
Ford has established Ford Smart Mobility, a subsidiary which will specifically design, build, grow and invest in emerging or future mobility technology. Jim Hackett, the former chairman and CEO of Steelcase has been appointed as the ...
Tags: Ford, Mobility technology, Jim Hackett
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that, by leveraging key elements of its SC5 Technology Platform, its high-power XLamp XP-L and XP-G2 LEDs now provide up to 9% more lumens and lumens-per-watt (LPW) than ...
A higher proportion of Australians living in rural and regional parts of the country are more likely to purchase cheese than consumers living in the bigger Australian cities says a new report from Roy Morgan Research. In the 12 months to ...
Tags: Cheese, Cheese-buying habits
United Natural Foods has reported financial results for the second fiscal quarter and six months ended January 30, 2016. The Company also announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Global Organic/Specialty Source, Inc. and ...