Mother Nature has the Midwest on a seesaw, and the ride is taking a cold turn this week after a weekend when warmer temperatures melted much of the snow on the ground from the previous weekend. Now expectations are for that ride to turn ...
Tags: seesaw, Weather Starter, Agriculture
About 2/3 of the nation's corn crop is out of the field, while farmers have caught up with the average pace with soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. Eighty-three percent of the nation's soybean crop has ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean Harvest
Rains continue to criss-cross the Midwest and mid-South, forcing even more corn and soybean harvest delays. And, the trend's expected to stay in place for the next couple of weeks, forecasters say. After rainfall this week that addded to ...
Tags: Rains, Harvest Progress, Food
For a lot of U.S. farmers, a relevant number may have passed unnoticed this year. The USDA reveals that China imported a volume of 84,000 tons of sorghum in 2011/2012. Just two years later, during the 2013/2014, the Asian giant imported 3.4 ...
Tags: Sorghum, US growers
With a few exceptions from minor rainfall in spots in the Corn Belt, a weather window's expected to stay open through the next few days, allowing corn harvest to advance and soybean drydown to continue. Meanwhile, the drier pattern will ...
Tags: Weather, Harvest, Agriculture
K&M Tire Inc. has purchased Area Wholesale Tire Co.'s assets in Texas. This includes the Louisiana company's warehouse operations in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The purchase, effective Sept. 15, 2014, includes tire inventory, assets ...
Tags: K&M Tire, Footprint, Accessories
Italian manufacturer of sustainable textile fabrics – C.L.A.A.S. will introduce its latest creations to fashion brands and designers for the A/W 2015 season. In the new season, C.L.A.A.S. will be joined by its new partner - Tessile ...
Tags: Sustainable Fabrics, fashion fairs
Europa, a Tuscan textile company engaged in the production of mono and bi-stretch fabrics of premium quality in the casual, sport and denim fields, will present its Autumn/Winter 2015-16 high-tech fabric collection at the international ...
Tags: Europa, textile, bi-stretch fabrics
The week's starting out a dry one -- and likely will end on that note, too -- though while some areas may see mounting concerns on this account, lower-than-normal temperatures will likely prevent the extended rain-free streak from ...
Tags: Corn Belt, Weather Starter, Food
Cormar Carpets have been voted Best Carpet Manufacturer 2014 by readers of the furnishing trade magazine Interiors Monthly. Award-winning UK carpet manufacturer, Cormar Carpets has been flying the flag for British-made carpet for over 55 ...
No need to drag out the Carhartts just yet, but be ready for a cooldown in parts of the nation's midsection in the next few days, forecasters say. Remember the polar vortex that swung down into the Midwest a few times last winter, ...
Tags: Midsection, Cooldown, Food
FAW GM held media conference in Changchun recently and they will explore all the light truck markets with the launching of the high end truck models, Subao and Gongshi. FAW Subao is mainly for joint venture brands and FAW Gongshi is of ...
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As cooler-than-normal temperatures continue to keep crop stress at bay in the absence of measurable widespread rainfall in the Corn Belt over the last two weeks, Mother Nature's expected to add to the weather-based bearish pressure on the ...
Tags: Conditions, Agriculture, Food
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a settlement with the owners of Anchordoguy ranch for violations of the Clean Water Act that destroyed more than 80 acres of ...
Tags: EPA, Clean Water, Protection
The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. announced its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Daniel T. Motulsky to its Board, effective August 1, 2014. Mr. Motulsky, 52, was a Managing Director and Global Head of Consumer & Retail of Lazard from ...
Tags: Bon-Ton Stores, Daniel Motulsky, Apparel