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Science News
July 23, 2008
Susan Milius |
Fugitives spread bumblebee diseases Pathogens hitchhike on commercial bees that escape from greenhouses   |
Science News
July 23, 2008
Rachel Ehrenberg |
Parasitic plant gets more than a meal Host molecules might be the best defense for crop plants |
Inc.
August 2008
Alex Salkever |
He Thought it Was Time to Shut Down, Until His Workers Cooked Up a Scheme. Has this farmer gone bananas? The experts weigh in. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2008
Toby Shute |
Two Firms Feasting on Flush Farmers Global grain inventories are low, crops are fetching a pretty penny, and farmers are planting with a fervor. Let's see how this backdrop is boosting AGCO and Mosaic. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2008
Toby Shute |
A Cash Flood for CF Industries CF Industries sells both nitrogen and phosphate products. Both segments are displaying profound profitability as farmers clamor for fertilizer. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2008
Toby Shute |
Minuscule Margins in Meat Meat king Tyson is feeling the corn cost sting, and getting, well, slaughtered. |
TIME Europe
July 24, 2008
Lisa Mclaughlin |
Inner-City Farms There is an urban agricultural boom underway in the U.S., where rising food and fuel prices are making city farming seem less and less outlandish. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2008
Toby Shute |
No Peak in Sight for Potash There's simply much more cash to be made in potash. The supply constraints are just that substantial. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2008 |
A Chocolate Assist The U.S. Department of Agricultural Research Service, confectionary maker Mars Inc. and IBM are pooling their resources to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome with the hope of one day creating better cocoa crops. |
Scientific American
June 2008
Reganold & Huggins |
No-Till: How Farmers Are Saving the Soil by Parking Their Plows The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation. Many farmers are thus looking to make plowing a thing of the past. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2008
Sean Milmo |
EU pesticide threat A fight is brewing in Europe over tighter controls of pesticides - which crop protection companies are warning will cut crop yields and push up the price of food. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Ben Paynter |
Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out Last October, agricultural consultancy Lanworth not only correctly projected that the US Department of Agriculture had overestimated the nation's corn crop, it nailed the margin: roughly 200 million bushels. |
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