By Kurt Knebusch More and more growers are using greenhouses and high tunnels, says the organizer of a workshop that will show how to boost the structures' crop quality, profitability and sustainability, especially by managing water ...
Tags: OARDC, Greenhouse Management Workshop, growing food crops, greenhouses
Along with red, green is the color of this holiday season. And bright green is showing up in more than just decorations. ?In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
Tags: Climate Change, Livestock
Lighting Science announced that founder and Chief Technology Officer Fred Maxik has been awarded his 100th patent by the United States Patent & Trademark Office. This milestone marks a prestigious career of LED innovation including patents ...
Tags: LED lamp, LED Lighting
Bunge North America, a unit of food processing firm Bunge, has purchased the wheat milling business of Grupo Altex in Mexico for an undisclosed amount. Grupo Altex produces a wide range of products from wheat including, bread flour, ...
Tags: Wheat Milling, Bunge North America
Research conducted at the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) shows that low-grade cotton is highly effective at absorbing crude oil spills. The study, published in the ...
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 ...
Tags: Cotton Production, Textile
Sino Agro Food, a China-based food company focused on developing, producing and distributing agricultural products, has formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino Agro Food Sweden Aktiebolag (SIAFS), in Sweden. The latest subsidiary, ...
Tags: Sino Agro Food, Subsidiary
US-based food security company Blumberg Grain has been awarded a project by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to expand food security and storage in the African country. The new project will see deployment ...
Tags: Blumberg, Food Security
With the technological development and economic growth,construction business is growing drastically in almost every part of the world.This is the leading reason why construction equipment is used in the construction industry to utilize the ...
Tags: construction business, construction equipment, construction industry
Briquettes are used for energy production in the industries. Briquetting machines are mostly used to make briquettes of different shapes and sizes for various industrial uses. The briquettes are a great way to convert a waste into energy. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Biomass Briquette
China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, a local government-backed online trading platform for spot commodities, plans to launch cross-border trading in yuan for natural rubber and iron ore. It announced the plans in Hong Kong Tuesday during a ...
Tags: Bohai Exchange, Tianjin, iron ore
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $15 million loan to dairy company Parag Milk Foods for expanding its milk processing facilities, to enhance dairy farm productivity and boost incomes in rural India. With IFC's ...
Tags: Dairy Farmers, Parag
Conergy will build five solar farms totaling 40 megawatts (MW) for Primrose Solar, which is backed by financial investors York Capital Management and Pioneer Point Partners LLP. A pipeline of four more solar parks with an additional ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy