LG Electronics Australia has slashed the price of its groundbreaking 55-inch Curved OLED (55EA9800), from RRP $11,999 to $7,999, a saving of 33 per cent from launch price announced in September 2013. At the same time, the Korean supplier ...
Tags: LG, OLED, Curved OLED, Consumer Electronics, OLED TV, TV
The Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers (ABRAPA) along with the Bahia Association of Cotton Producers (ABAPA) of the Brazilian state of Bahia, unveiled guidelines of the Brazilian Cotton Program Manager (ABR) sustainability protocol ...
Tags: Cotton, Sustainability Protocols, Abrapa
A government and industry team led by engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) has completed a program to assess, improve, refine and validate a domestic source of supply ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The USDA released its monthly Crop Production and WASDE reports earlier this month and Kansas State University Extension Agricultural Economist Dan O’Brien has been crunching the numbers to see what they portend for grain prices in ...
Tags: Grain Prices, Record Levels
There is widespread concern about potential sulfur (S) deficiencies in corn and soybeans in the North Central region. Sulfur is relatively immobile within the plant, so symptoms usually appear in the new growth. Atmospheric deposition used ...
As we enter the year 2014, I am sure many of you have established personal or business-related goals for the coming year. I know the whole New Year's Resolutions issue can be very exciting to some as we set such lofty goals as weight loss, ...
Tags: Beef Industry, Food
Brookings, S.D. - Soil testing has proven to be a reliable tool to guide fertilizer recommendations. However, growers are looking for additional ways to confirm that soil and fertilizer applications are meeting the nutritional needs of the ...
Tags: Soybean, Decision Tools
Chinese scientists have cultivated a high-yield salt-resistant rice variety that boasts an output of six tons per hectare. In an experimental program, two professors from Hainan University and additional researchers from the Hunan ...
Tags: Salt-Resistant Rice, rice straw
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it. The findings published in the open-access scientific journal eLife could be used to engineer crops that combine ...
The results of a field trial with genetically modified poplar trees in Zwijnaarde, Belgium, shows that the wood of lignin modified poplar trees can be converted into sugars in a more efficient way. These sugars can serve as the starting ...
Tags: genetically modified poplar trees, wood of lignin, bio-based products
The ability to sequence the DNA of plants and animals has revolutionized many areas of biology, but the unstable character of DNA poses difficulties for sequencing specimens in museum collection over time. In an attempt to answer these ...
Tags: DNA, biology, sequencing specimens, museum collection
How can the tiny marmoset – a New World monkey – regularly successfully bear twins and sometimes triplets and quadruplets when much larger humans often face a difficult pregnancy and delivery? The answer, said researchers led ...
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Till date nearly 1 crore bales have arrived in the market and approximately 2.75 crore bales are yet to arrive in the Indian market. Mills and exporters are cautiously procuring cotton considering the financial tightness in the market. ...
Tags: Cotton Buying, Rupee Depreciation
The transition to lower prices is occurring differently for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Corn and wheat prices have come under the most pressure due to large U.S. and/or world crops in 2013. Soybean prices have remained higher due to strong ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced that together with DONG Energy (Denmark) it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale. The combined ...