New Zealand peanut butter maker Pic's has had to ramp up its manufacturing operations ahead of a decision by Woolworths to stock its all-natural products nationwide. More than 900 Woolworths supermarkets are now stocking Pic’s ...
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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
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
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Children should learn mainly though play up until the age of eight, says head of LEGO Foundation Hanne Rasmussen. The LEGO Group has put £4 million into a new LEGO Professorship at Cambridge University to help forward research in ...
Over the past 20 years, there has been a distinct shift in food composition and food labelling laws around the world. Historically, food laws were necessary to prevent people eating unsafe food. Later, food laws were aiming to prevent ...
Volvo says that a standardised charging infrastructure for electric cars must be introduced by the global automotive industry. Volvo Cars believes the global automotive industry should strive towards the introduction of a standardised ...
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Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) are scientific and technological resources with advantages and huge innovation potentials, said Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of TCM and vice-minister of the China's National Health ...
China's independent refiners nearly doubled their gasoil and gasoline production in January and output is expected to remain at high levels going forward as they maintain strong run rates, set up reformers, and continue to process light ...
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Apple, partnering with Chinese bankcard association UnionPay, launched its mobile payment system Apple Pay on Thursday in China, one of the world's largest mobile-payment markets -- but one already dominated by local players like Alibaba ...
Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have arrived. The unsurpassed visual performance and slim form factors of OLED products have been warmly welcomed by consumers. You can find glass-based AMOLED (active-matrix OLED) displays in a range ...
The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
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Star Wars was not the only force making a come-back in 2015. The return of generic advertising brought with it a promise of increased profitability for the diamond trade. Even as numerous stories reflecting pain in the industry vied for our ...
House prices in the UK will see an average increase of 6% over the course of next year, according to the RICS housing forecast for 2016. With house prices predicted to rise across the whole of the UK in 2016, East Anglia is continuing the ...
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Australians are their own worst enemy when it comes to sticking to their diets according to a new CSIRO study. Examining the weight management habits of more than 2, 300 Australians the CSIRO found 69 per cent of respondents identified ...
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Boston Beer Company has launched Samuel Adams nitro beers across the US, after three years of trials. The three new ales - Nitro White Ale, Nitro IPA, and Nitro Coffee Stout, are the result of Samuel Adams Nitro Project. 'Nitro' refers ...
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