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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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