Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced today an investment of more than $1.5 million to Pulse Canada to lead a multi-sector collaboration project of the pulse, oilseeds and grains industries to improve supply chain efficiency and ...
Tags: Agriculture, canola, crop, grain
Iowa’s pork industry will be represented by 30 Iowa hog farmers at the 2014 National Pork Industry Forum. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Jan. 9 the appointment of 152 producers and four importers to the Pork Act ...
Tags: delegate body, Pork Checkoff, nominees, hog farmer
DES MOINES, IOWA - Delegates from across the United States will gather in Kansas City, March 6-8, 2014, for the annual National Pork Industry Forum. The 15 producers who serve as members of the National Pork Board and Pork Checkoff staff ...
Tags: IOWA-Delegates, PQA, hog farmer, Pork Checkoff
Scott George, a dairy producer and cow-calf operator out of the state of Wyoming is the current president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Radio Oklahoma Network Farm Director Ron Hays visited with George about a variety ...
Tags: Scott George, Beef, Challenges, cattle industry
A team of researchers at Osaka University in Japan has discovered that one type of zebrafish pigment cell chases another around in a Petri dish possibly explaining how they fish gets its stripes. The team has published its findings in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, zebrafish pigment cell
One quarter of the world's cartilaginous fish, namely sharks and rays, face extinction within the next few decades, according to the first study to systematically and globally assess their fate. The International Union for Conservation of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Overfished
As part of an ambitious initiative to engage and employ the next generation through America's great outdoors, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced a public-private partnership with American Eagle Out, Inc. that will help reach ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
ARC Capital Holdings, an investment firm, has signed a definitive agreement with Prospect Link for the sale of its entire stake in Ningxia Xiajin Dairy for $30m. Ningxia Xiajin Dairy, which is a China-based establishment, produces milk ...
Tags: Dairy Firm, Agriculture
The U.S. pork industry has started a slow expansion driven by lower feed costs, which should lead to more rapid growth of pork supplies in the latter half of this year, says Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt. That could ...
Tags: pork, Agriculture, Food, Meat
Gender differences in nature are common, including in humans. A research team from Bern, Switzerland has found that male European honey bees, or drones, are much more susceptible than female European honey bees, known as workers, to a ...
Tags: Honey Bees, Agriculture
Soil potassium (K) levels have been routinely tested for many years. Historically, K levels were quite high in most South Dakota fields and therefore crop producers paid little attention to K levels or fertilization. However, in the late ...
Tags: Agriculture
Given a choice, male dyeing poison frogs snub empty pools in favor of ones in which their tiny tadpoles have to metamorphose into frogs in the company of larger, carnivorous ones of the same species. The frog fathers only choose to deposit ...
Tags: Frog, Agriculture
The Chinese economy grew at an annual pace of 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, which was enough to ensure that growth for the whole of the year matched that of 2012. According to preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Chinese Economy, NBS, Australia, market
Healthy food products that are produced in an environmentally-friendly manner will boost the health of the Swiss population while protecting natural resources. The National Research Programme "Healthy Nutrition and Sustainable Food ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine, Healthy food
Some may think of turkeys as good for just lunch meat and holiday meals. But bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, saw inspiration in the big birds for a new type of biosensor that changes color when exposed to chemical ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, meat