As farmers flip the calendar over to January, they may be turning to new realities regarding grain markets as well. "All eyes are focused on the big competition (from South America)," explains Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Foreign Factors
Rare earthquake lights are more likely to occur on or near rift environments, where subvertical faults allow stress-induced electrical currents to flow rapidly to the surface, according to a new study published in the Jan./Feb. issue of ...
Tags: earthquake lights, rift environments, subvertical faults, seismology
Marine mammals are flagship and charismatic species, very attractive for the general public. Nowadays, they are also considered as highly relevant sentinel of the marine realm. Their presence and their welfare in an area is thought to ...
Tags: marine mammals, marine mammal biodiversity, DNA, DNA barcoding
The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) will hold the 2014 Iowa Pork Congress on Jan. 22 and 23 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. The nation's largest winter swine tradeshow and conference will be held in Hy-Vee Hall with show ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
I.T. BEIJING MARKET: A sprawling 19,000 square-foot, four-story multibrand fashion emporium is set to open in Beijing on December 29. The concept and direction of the I.T. Beijing Market, which will be located in the Sanlitun retail ...
Tags: Textile, Luxury Fashion
Nike has announced the renewal of its partnership with Paris Saint-Germain Football Club that will begin from the start of 2014-15 season and run until at least the 2021-22 campaign. "We're delighted to confirm the continuation of our ...
Tags: Nike Partnership, Football
Seattle-based Nordstrom, Inc. announced plans to open a Nordstrom Rack at the Plaza at Jordan Creek in West Des Moines, Iowa. The approximately 35,000-square-foot store is scheduled to open in fall 2014. The Plaza at Jordan Creek is ...
Tags: Nordstrom Rack, Apparel
The Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Graduate Studies and The Museum at FIT present Beyond Rebellion: Fashioning the Biker Jacket. Organized by graduate students in the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum ...
Tags: shield motorcycle, Biker Jacket
The thirteenth edition of the Pharmapack Europe event will take place on 12-13 February 2014 at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. More than 3,000 visitors and 330 exhibitors from over 70 countries will gather in the new exhibition hall to ...
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, in partnership with the Chinese-American Planning Council (“CPC”) and Parsons The New School for Design (“Parsons”) announced the launch of LVMH Fundamentals in Luxury Retail: A ...
Tags: CPC&Parsons, Apparel
Johnson & Johnson Innovation and its affiliate Janssen have entered into new collaborations with two Canadian early-stage drug technology development centers, NEOMED and MaRS Innovation, to discover and develop new bio/pharmaceutical ...
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
Tags: agriculture, GMO, farmer
SURREY, BC, Dec. 2, 2013 /CNW/ - FortisBC has received approval from the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to modify natural gas and propane rates. Beginning January 1, 2014 customers will see varying changes to their bill depending on where ...
Tags: FortisBC, natural gas, propane, modify rates, Propane prices
US-based Boston Scientific has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Promus PREMIER everolimus-eluting platinum chromium coronary stent system. The company's next-generation durable polymer ...
Agropur Cooperative is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached, as of November 21, 2013, to acquire the assets of Fromagerie Damafro - including those of Fromagerie Clément - located in St-Damase, Quebec. Damafro is a ...
Tags: Agropur, Damafro Inc.