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| ADC (Agricultural Digital Camera)
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| Dycam Agricultural Digital Camera (ADC). The spectral reflectance properties of plants have been known for many years.
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| AgResource Company
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| provides fundamentals-based market research and advisory services to the agricultural community.
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| Agribuild
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| offers personal coaching and strategic planning advice to farmers and agricultural contractors.
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| Argentine farm tax crisis worsens
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| A strike by Argentine farmers over rising taxes on major export goods has entered its third week, with little sign of resolution.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| Biofuels Doubters are Emerging
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| Critics are questioning the wisdom of huge government subsidies granted to some biofuels, especially corn-based ethanol.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| Biofuels May Disperse More Greenhouse Gases Than Oil
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| A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.
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September 22, 2007 |
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| Brakke Consulting
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| offers services to the animal health, agricultural, veterinary, pet, and specialty chemical product industries including executive search, market studies, and professional management services.
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| Bush to Announce Agriculture Department Chief Nomination
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| President Bush on Wednesday will nominate Edward Schafer, a former two-term Republican governor from North Dakota, to be his next secretary of agriculture, a senior administration official said.
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October 31, 2007 |
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| Crop Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Fruit Shape
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| Crop scientists have cloned a gene that controls the shape of tomatoes, a discovery that could help unravel the mystery behind the huge morphological differences among edible fruits and vegetables, as well as provide new insight into mechanisms of plant development.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Davis Fresh Technologies
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| expertise in business development, food safety, post harvest, and technology transfer.
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| Denzil Phillips International Ltd.
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| introduce, conserve, propagate, cultivate, harvest, process, evaluate, and market useful plants from around the world.
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| Do biofuels cause famine? EU President opens probe
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| The Commission seems in the process of shifting away from its previous unbridled support for the technology. It emerged last weekend that the Commission may cancel its target of requiring ten per cent of petrol and diesel to be biofuel by 2020.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| Europe grows more (and more) GM crops
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| Just days after the European Commission gave its stamp of approval to four new GM plants, a report has revealed that the area of Europe's arable land devoted to genetically modified crops has risen by 77 per cent in the last year.
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October 29, 2007 |
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| Fertilizer Run-off From Agricultural Activities Blamed For Gulf Dead Zone In Gulf Of Mexico
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| Improved management of crops and perennials could go a long way toward alleviating the problem of hypoxia, which claims thousands of fish, shrimp and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico each spring.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety, rich with patterns
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| A handful of soil is a lot like a banana, strawberry and apple smoothie: Blended all together, it is hard to tell what's in there, especially if you have never tasted the fruits before.
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April 28, 2008 |
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| Five-G Consulting
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| custom design of livestock handling facilities.
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| Global food system 'must change'
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| Agriculture has to change radically if the world is to avoid environmental and social problems, a report warns.
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April 15, 2008 |
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| Herbicide-tolerant Crops Can Improve Water Quality
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| The residual herbicides commonly used in the production of corn and soybean are frequently detected in rivers, streams, and reservoirs at concentrations that exceed drinking water standards in areas where these crops are extensively grown.
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April 23, 2008 |
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| Human Urine As A Safe, Inexpensive Fertilizer For Food Crops
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| Researchers in Finland are reporting successful use of an unlikely fertilizer for farm fields that is inexpensive, abundantly available, and undeniably organic -- human urine.
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October 8, 2007 |
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| Land Technology Ltd
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| publishes developments in agricultural engineering. Also offers consultancy services in agricultural mechanisation.
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| Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc. Consulting Foresters.
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| specializing in timberland management, forest inventories, timber harvest planning, appraisals, forest economics and policy analysis, and special studies.
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| Middle East Breeders and Technologies Ltd
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| offers livestock breeding consultancy services to government organisations, private sector, and individual breeders.
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| Negotiators Reach Tentative Deal on Multibillion-Dollar Farm Bill
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| Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement Friday on a multibillion-dollar farm bill that includes a hefty increase for nutrition programs at a time of rising food prices.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| New Polymer Product From Soy Oil, Not Petroleum
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| Hair-care products, wound-care dressings and drug encapsulation are among the potential uses of new, soy-oil-based polymers known as "hydrogels," developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Peoria, Ill.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Stecia Consulting
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| provides agricultural consulting services such as feasability studies, market research, development of partnership and joint-ventures, and implementation of quality systems.
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| Toll Of Climate Change On World Food Supply Could Be Worse Than Thought
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| Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new scientific reports.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Tomato Disease In Mexico Caused By New Virus
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| Scientists of Plant Research International of Wageningen UR have identified the virus that causes great damage in tomato cultivation in Mexico where the disease is known as ‘Marchitez', which means 'withered'.
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December 3, 2007 |
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| UN calls for farming revolution
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| A UN-sponsored report has called for urgent changes to the way food is produced, as soaring food prices risk driving millions of people to poverty.
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April 15, 2008 |
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| Watering Tomato Plants With Diluted Seawater Boosts Levels Of Antioxidants
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| Watering tomatoes with diluted seawater can boost their content of disease-fighting antioxidants and may lead to healthier salads, appetizers, and other tomato-based foods, scientists in Italy report.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| Zwicker Consulting
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| source of information on Illinois agriculture featuring sections on commodities, crop conditions and weather reports.
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