An all-new swine educational event is being held for Iowa youth later this month in Ames. It's the Iowa Pork Producers Association's Cyclone Swine Spectacular and it's being paired with the Iowa State University Block and Bridle Club's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Dairy farmers have a new opportunity to protect their farm income with dairy margin insurance. The dairy safety net in the new farm bill takes a new approach. Margin insurance, and the nuts-and-bolts decisions to be made, will be ...
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The retail sector has not yet taken up LED lighting in any significant amount, according to the latest research from BRE. BRE undertook a survey of retail lighting in the Watford area in 2011. It looked at shopping centres and retail ...
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As a range of climate change mitigation scenarios are discussed, University of Washington researchers have found that the injection of sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and curb the effects of global warming could ...
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In October of last year, a team from NASA and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory made space communications history by beaming data, via laser, at speeds reaching 622 megabits per second, to Earth from a spacecraft orbiting the moon. Radio-frequency ...
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Hudson's Furniture will open a 110,000-square-foot Furniture and Home Furnishing Retail Center on March 1 at DeSoto Square Mall here. The Sanford, Fla.-based Top 100 company is opening in a former Dillard's department store space, ...
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Women who drink alcohol at moderate or heavy levels in the early stages of their pregnancy might damage the growth and function of their placenta - the organ responsible for supplying everything that a developing infant needs until birth - ...
The fourth-largest energy consumer in the world is starting to make some noise on the renewables front.India,with its growing population and GDP,has announced plans to build a massive 4-gigawatt solar photovoltaic plant near Sambhar ...
Construction employment expanded in 192 metro areas, declined in 84 and was stagnant in 63 between December 2012 and December 2013, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Wednesday by the Associated General ...
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Woolworths Limited has released its results for the first half of FY2014,posting a strong performance across its group of retailers and a 6 per cent increase in overall sales,up to$31.8 billion(1H13:$30.0 billion). Growth was driven in ...
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American International Toy Fair 2014 will be held in New York City, NY, United States on February 16-19, 2014. American International Toy Fair 2014 is a leading exhibition that presents products and services in categories such as: ...
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Incyte Corporation (Nasdaq: INCY) announced today that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck, through a Merck subsidiary, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Incyte's oral indoleamine dioxygenase-1 ...
Tags: collaboration agreement, Incyte's oral indoleamine dioxygenase-1, IDO1
In 2012-13 we evaluated 24 cultivars of bicolor and white synergistic cultivars of sweet corn in 3 locations across Pennsylvania. This article presents our methods and results. To provide growers with information for successful, region ...
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New U.S. seedings of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures increased by 5% last year over the 2.39 million acres planted in 2012. It was the second year in a row to see an increase, even though it’s the third-lowest total of newly seeded acres ...
A new international multi-center study led by researchers from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is the first to evaluate whether purified cannabinoid is effective in treating severe forms of childhood epilepsy that do not respond to ...