With the exception of just a handful of acres relative to the entire nation, the 2014 corn and soybean crop is essentially in the books. Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report shows 94% of the nation's corn crop and 97% of its soybeans ...
Tags: soybean crop, corn, Agriculture
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, on her first trip to New Jersey, was joined by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop at the Berry Lane Park project to highlight EPA funding that has helped Jersey City ...
Tags: EPA Investment, Agriculture
Dow Construction Chemicals (DCC), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company has launched a new, high-performance 100 percent acrylic redispersible powder, DLP-500. With this launch, Dow enters a new market with a dry acrylic powder that ...
Tags: Acrylic Powder, Chemicals
Bangladesh based, Far East Industries Ltd will set up the country’s first compact yarn manufacturing facility. “The plant to be set up in Habiganj will be operational in 18 months at an approximate investment of Tk 150 ...
Monday's USDA Crop Production caught the market's attention for a short time, but since then, the focus has turned to the weather in key soybean-growing areas of South America. Though rainfall is forecast in some of those critical areas, ...
Tags: Soybean, Agriculture
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the surface-mountable Displix Oval, which is claimed to be the first LED with oval light-radiating characteristics for large-screen video walls, gas station price signs and ...
Tags: Mountable LED, Osram
The tools used by self-dressing women to coil their hair into a bun In Zhaoqing City of South China's Guangdong Province, the smell of opening-up and reform can be felt here and there with the newly built western-style buildings, ...
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Corn harvest is almost to the halfway point in what some farmers are starting to say will be a "long fall," while soybean harvest continues to progress closer to the average pace, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progres report. ...
Retail sales volumes continued to grow in the year to October, with another strong rise expected in the month ahead, according to the CBI. The CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey of 124 firms showed a third successive ...
Tags: High Street Sales, Furnishing
China's air pollution problems are more severe and widespread and it has caused a jump in chronic lung diseases usually associated with the elderly among people in their 30s, state media said. However, there are tips for coping with ...
Tags: air pollution, face mask, air fliter
It used to be that we adults just had to worry about keeping up with our children in the smarts department. (Remember the first time you had to ask your offspring to show you how to use email or Facebook?) Now, as the technological ...
Tags: Smart home technology
As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, cash cotton
Rains continue to criss-cross the Midwest and mid-South, forcing even more corn and soybean harvest delays. And, the trend's expected to stay in place for the next couple of weeks, forecasters say. After rainfall this week that addded to ...
Tags: Rains, Harvest Progress, Food
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded $2,543,528 to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to support management of nonpoint-source water pollution. The funding will be used for a variety of projects ...
Tags: Water Quality, EPA
DALLAS – Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $2,502,401 to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana to improve coastal wetlands in Louisiana. The project will create 300 acres of barrier ...
Tags: EPA, Coastal Protection, Service