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Record Urea Prices Squeeze AdBlue Margins (Popularity:  )
Urea prices reached record highs in June 2008, increasing the pressure on the AdBlue market's already tight margins. When combined with the additional pressure from the soaring price of automotive diesel, and growing doubts over the health of the commercial vehicles market, it would appear AdBlue suppliers are heading for tougher conditions in Q3 2008.
Given the already competitive nature of the AdBlue market, where the struggle to develop early ...
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Global Water Technologies Announces Shipment of Filtration System for US Mint (Popularity: )
Global Water Technologies, Inc., ("GWT") a technology driven water purification and services provider to the $400 billion water industry, announced that it has made an initial shipment of a proprietary filtration system to be installed at the US Mint in Denver, CO.
The minting process requires exacting standards and reliability for water quality. The treatment system was chosen due to its ability to filter out particulates entrained in the water ...
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Hangzhou Vegetable Exports to Japan Defy Chinese Slump (Popularity: )
At the beginning of this year, Japan's "poison dumpling case" severely impacted China's food exports and particularly hit China's agricultural product exports.
In a research note, the general Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China announced that two batches of dumplings involved in the case were found to have no traces of methylamine phosphorus residue after a rigorous inspection. But according to the results ...
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Rabobank Report Shows Promising Long-Term Outlook for Cotton (Popularity: )
Despite 2008's U.S. cotton acreage forecast at its lowest level in more than 20 years, the long-term outlook for cotton appears promising. Changes in the global sector and an improved U.S. economy are likely to increase textile demand, and with it demand for cotton, according to a new Rabobank report, "U.S. Cotton."
"This ailing patient, the U.S. cotton sector, shows every sign of a great recovery -- it just may ...
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PA Agriculture Department Warns Consumers About Raw Milk Sold by York County Dairy (Popularity: )
The Department of Agriculture is recommending that consumers who have purchased raw milk from Stump Acres Dairy farm in New Salem, York County, discard it immediately due to the risk of Listeria Monocytogenes contamination, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.
Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Pennsylvania law allows farms to sell raw milk, but requires they obtain permits and be inspected to reduce health ...
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Monsanto Company Completes Acquisition of De Ruiter Seeds (Popularity: )
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today that it has completed its proposed acquisition of De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V., a Dutch-holding company that owns and operates De Ruiter Seeds, for EUR546 million in cash, or approximately $850 million at current exchange rates, less net debt.
Monsanto will start to transition the De Ruiter Seeds business into its vegetable seeds division alongside its other business units, Seminis and the International Seed ...
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Ritchie Bros.' combined Dubai-Singapore auction increases choice in global market participation (Popularity: )
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) made it easier for thousands of equipment buyers and sellers to access the global marketplace this week, offering multiple bidding options at 18 unreserved auctions in four countries, including a multi-million dollar combined Dubai-Singapore auction. Almost 600 people from 52 countries registered to bid either in person, by proxy or over the internet at the US$33 million unreserved auction at the Company's Dubai, ...
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The Sugar Association Applauds California Assembly Health Committee's Plans to Hold Hearings on Deceptive Advertising of Artificial Sweeteners (Popularity: )
Mark Lanier, who was recently honored with the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association's 2008 Consumer Advocacy Award and who is a trial lawyer for the Washington-based Sugar Association, representing thousands of sugar farmers from across the nation, applauded the decision of the California Assembly Committee on Health to hold hearings in California concerning the use of deceptive advertising by makers of artificial sweeteners such as Splenda.
"Document after document from Johnson ...
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USAID Invests $3 Million in Iraq's Aquaculture (Popularity: )
The United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Inma agribusiness program in Iraq will soon have millions of carp fingerlings ready for delivery to hundreds of fish farms across central and southern portions of the country, thanks to joint efforts with the U.S. military, the State Department, and area Iraqi farmers. Inma is Arabic for "growth."
A $3 million agreement with USAID's Inma Agribusiness Program to purchase six million fingerlings ...
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China Green Agriculture, Inc. Breaks Ground on New Production Facilities (Popularity: )
China Green Agriculture, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CGAG) ("China Green Agriculture" or "the Company"), a leading producer and distributor of organic humic acid ("HA") based liquid compound fertilizer through its wholly owned subsidiary, Shaanxi TechTeam Jinong Humic Acid Product Co., Ltd., today announced that it has obtained all necessary building permits and commenced construction of a new production line.
China Green Agriculture held its official groundbreaking ceremony for the project, ...
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