Beef cattle producers who want boost their profit potential and become more competitive in the cattle industry can learn how by attending the 2014 Ohio Beef Cattle School series Jan. 28, Feb. 18 and March 11, 2014, taught by experts from ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Beef
With porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) costing U.S. swine producers more than $664 million annually in lost production, collaborative scientific research continues to be the industry's best hope for finding new ways to ...
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A Monday evening fire at Cargill's beef packing plant in Dodge City caused a temporary shutdown of operations. The plant is expected to resume operations in full on Monday. USDA says there were 445 million pounds of beef in cold storage ...
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United States Hog Inventory Down 1 Percent United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on December 1, 2013 was 65.9 million head. This was down 1 percent from December 1, 2012, and down 2 percent from September 1, 2013. Breeding ...
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The LED lighting market in China is expected to double in size from 9.6 percent to 18 percent of all lighting used in the next four years, according to a recent growth forecast from Lux Research. This growth will be spurred by falling ...
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In recent years, LED technology has been the fastest growing in solid-state lighting, with a market penetration rate estimated to exceed 60 percent in 2014, according to LEDinside. Rapid improvement and the ever-increasing interest of large ...
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A fund collection program for the world's first transparent tablet PC named Grippity has appeared on the Kickstarter website, foreign media reported. The tablet developer Jacob Eichbaum hopes to raise start-up funds and make delivery on Oct ...
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Despite unfavorable global economic conditions, Chinese apparel industry has witnessed tremendous growth over the last few years. The government's efforts along with extended participation by the private domestic players have boosted the ...
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United States egg production totaled 7.97 billion during November 2013, up 2 percent from last year. Production included 6.95 billion table eggs, and 1.03 billion hatching eggs, of which 952 million were broiler-type and 74 million were ...
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Ready-to-Cook Weight Down 2 Percent from Last Year Poultry certified wholesome during November 2013 (ready-to-cook weight) totaled 3.49 billion pounds, down 2 percent from the amount certified in November 2012. The October 2013 revised ...
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It’s reported that the Chinese steelmaker Shagang announced to cut its rebar ex-work prices by RMB50/ton for deliveries during December 21-31. After the adjustment, Shangang’s ex-work prices for HRB400 rebar with diameters of ...
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Retailers are extending store hours in the final days before Christmas to capture holiday holdouts. Related sales September Retail Sales Reports Vary sales Holiday Sales To Grow 3.9%: NRF sales Holiday Sales To Grow 4-4.5%: Deloitte sales ...
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RadioShack opened a pre-Christmas pop-up store in Manhattan's busy Penn Station. Related RadioShack RadioShack Receives New Financing RadioShack RadioShack Continues To Reshape Management Team RadioShack RadioShack Continues Store Revamp ...
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ATI Allegheny Ludlum, one of the major stainless steel producers in the US announced to hike its base prices for all 200 series grades, 300 series grades and 430 grades through cutting the functional discounts by two percentage points, ...
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According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the country’s production of welded steel pipes totaled 4.47 million tons in November. In November, the country’s daily output of welded steel pipes averaged ...
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