Archer Daniels Midland Company today announced a package of additional commitments related to its proposed acquisition of GrainCorp Limited. Key elements of that package are: An additional A$200 million investment to strengthen ...
Social investor and worldwide cooperative, Oikocredit, will increase investments in the agricultural sector in the next three years as part of its agriculture strategy. The strategic investment focus was developed several years ago as ...
Nestlé has joined forces with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and seven consumer firms to develop bioplastics, derived from plant materials. The Bioplastics Feedstock Alliance (BFA) includes consumer goods firms such as Coca-Cola, ...
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NWFA Board members and staff in front of the Capitol Building The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) recently held its Fall Board meeting in conjunction with the annual Hardwood Federation Fly-In in Washington, Oct. 30-31. The ...
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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Intevation Food is recalling approximately 156,924 pounds of frozen chicken fettuccine alfredo products as they contain egg which is not declared on the product label, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and ...
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Zambeef Products, a Zambia-based meat products company, has opened a dairy processing plant in Chisamba. The $2.5m facility is set to raise the company's milk processing capacity from 35,000 liters per day to 100,000, while creating 1,000 ...
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Today's market provides an extensive range for varied wiring and binding purposes. A comprehensive range manufactured and supplied to the buyers include high quality galvanized iron wire, galvanized barbed iron wire, flat stitching, bright ...
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St. Joe to Sell Florida Timberland to AgReserves Watersound, FL (November 21, 2013) – The St. Joe Company has entered into a sales agreement with AgReserves, Inc., Salt Lake City, to sell approximately 382,834 acres of its ...
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As wood products companies continue to come under scrutiny for the sourcing of their lumber, it becomes even more important for companies importing wood into the United States to participate in programs that support the use of legally ...
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US agriculture readies for China's baby boom? Apple's revamped 'Siri' takes on agriculture's questions California: Home of the food lawsuit Just as the State of California was readying growers for what they pretty much expected – ...
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Charlotte-based nonwovens producer Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) has acquired Fiberweb Plc, a London-based nonwovens and geosynthetics producer. PGI made an initial offer to purchase the company in August (see "PGI Makes Offer To Purchase ...
Fourth Quarter Consolidated Operating Results Net sales for the fourth quarter were $291.7 million and increased $44.5 million, or 18.0%, compared to the prior year. Acquisitions, net of $0.3 million of intersegment eliminations, ...
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What four agriculture items would show up on a list of the 101 most important objects in American history? Probably not the four selected by Smithsonian from its “101 Objects That Made America.” But if you guessed cotton gin, ...
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About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
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