Chinese dairy major Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial has partnered with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) to establish a dairy plant in Kansas. The company owns 30% stake in the joint venture, which has a registered capital of around $100m. ...
Tags: Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial, Dairy Farmers of America, Agriculture
Dow AgroSciences announced today it will launch Enlist Duo herbicide, a proprietary blend of glyphosate and new 2,4-D choline, for the 2015 crop season. Select growers will participate in this stewarded introduction. Enlist Duo is part of ...
Monday's USDA Crop Production caught the market's attention for a short time, but since then, the focus has turned to the weather in key soybean-growing areas of South America. Though rainfall is forecast in some of those critical areas, ...
Tags: Soybean, Agriculture
Now that the end is in sight for most farmers -- and fortunately so on account of the Arctic blast of freezing temperatures and snow that have moved into the nation's center this week -- corn and soybean harvest have both caught up to the ...
Tags: Corn Harvest, Agriculture
Today Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC (Verdesian) announced a new seed inoculant for soybeans — Preside CL, available for the 2015 growing season. In replicated field trials, seeds inoculated with Preside CL reached canopy closure ...
The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) plans to double its presence in the Chinese mass market by 2015 in line with its strategy to tap milk deficit regions. The cooperative has been making attempts to expand internationally in order to find ...
Tetra Pak has launched a handbook, 'The role of raw milk quality in UHT production', to support quality managers of dairy companies in emerging markets. The handbook draws on best practice from leading dairy companies on ways to ensure ...
Tags: Raw milk, dairy companies, Agriculture
UK-based Dairy Crest has agreed to divest its Dairies operations to Müller UK & Ireland for £80m, citing slump in profits during the six months ended September. The transaction includes production plants at Foston, Chadwell ...
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
As the most influential goddess of the sea in China, Mazu is at the centre of a host of beliefs and customs, including oral traditions, religious ceremonies and folk practices, throughout the country’s coastal areas. Mazu is believed ...
Tags: Mazu Belief, Mazu Customs
Corn harvest is almost to the halfway point in what some farmers are starting to say will be a "long fall," while soybean harvest continues to progress closer to the average pace, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progres report. ...
According to a statement released by Argentina, China will China to open sorghum market to Argentina. It will create mpetition for the US farmers who have been the main beneficiaries so far of a surge in Chinese demand for the grain ...
DBL Group, Bangladesh-based diversified and integrated knit garments manufacturing & composite industry with a strong backward linkage, is set to establish textiles and garment factory at a cost of 765 million Birr in Mekele town, northern ...
Australia-based Perich Group has announced plans to invest around $100m in its dairy operations to accommodate increasing demand for milk products across Asia. As part of the investment, the company will construct new milk manufacturing ...
Tags: Perich Group, dairy operations, Food