Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
There's a lot of bearish news for corn lately. But, there's hope for the bulls in the hog business. No, it's not going to get any easier for you to add value to your grain by feeding a few hogs on your place like what was the case in ...
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Raising a mountain of funding doesn't prove a tech company is success-bound. But if you ask Jeff Fagnan at Atlas Venture, there's a closer correlation between the two today than even a few years ago. "I think the current crop (of ...
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ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America’s leading food companies, reported results for the fiscal 2014 second quarter ended Nov. 24, 2013. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.54 as reported for the fiscal second quarter, ...
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Thinking about remodeling or building something from scratch? Chances are that you may have considered the integration of reclaimed timber from deconstructed homes into your final product, for reasons ranging from wanting to be ...
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ICE Cotton traded almost unchanged this week, a slow, low-volume follow-up to last week’s strong gains. Cert stocks have steadily fallen to around 40k bales, with no new crop bales yet to turn up. Export sales this week were better ...
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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture recently held a meeting in order to discuss the prospects of development of cotton production in the country, especially in the Astrakhan, Stavropol and Kalmykia regions of Russia. According to a ...
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The arrival of cotton at ginneries in Pakistan by December 15, 2013, has increased by 13.75 percent year-on-year, according to the fortnightly report on cotton arrivals, prepared by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners’ Association (PCGA), in ...
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The average yield of cotton in Greece has reached record levels this year and has touched around 322 kg per hectare, Athanasios Tsaftaris, Minister of Rural Development and Food (MADF), said in the House during the debate on state budget ...
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BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
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Necessity is the mother of invention, which is as true for package development professionals as for garage tinkerers. We spoke recently with Aron James Clarkson, designer-inventor and CEO of StarOne Group, who says he's in business to ...
John Deere and BASF announced plans to jointly develop a suite of integrated precision farming and farm management solutions for improved execution in the field. These tools, developed together with growers, will provide enhanced field ...
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If you can correctly project U.S. acreage, China demand, South America's production, and U.S. livestock feed demand, experts say that you could tell the world where the corn and soybean prices will go in 2014. Without knowing those ...
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The federal government is welcoming the Federal Court decision to strike down six of seven claims in a class action lawsuit over the end of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk. Four prairie farmers - Andrew Dennis of Brookdale, ...
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Automotive brands were responsible for two of the top 10 most complained about advertisements in 2013. Ads for the Nissan Pulsar and Jeep Compass ranked fifth and sixth respectively on the list complied by the Advertising Standards Bureau ...
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