Sprout Farming News
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Sprouts Empowers Guests with Environmentally Friendly Tips and Resources During Earth Month
Sprouts Farmers Market is inspiring guests to celebrate Earth Month throughout April with educational tips and resources at sprouts.com/earth-month. In addition to offering green living materials, the healthy grocer announced 2018 sustainability results and details on its annual roundup to support local health and wellness causes. Sprouts.com “Goes Green” with Healthy Living Tips ...
By Siemens AG
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Predictions for the storage season ahead
Current weather forecasts predict that rain and unsettled conditions are likely as we move into the autumn, and this may create challenges for growers with concerns about potato storage and disease control this season. Store cleanliness and hygiene should also be top priority for growers before harvest. “I can’t stress enough the value of ensuring the correct preparation has been ...
By Certis UK
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EPA Announces New Actions to Curb Potent Greenhouse Gases
Building on the President’s Climate Action Plan, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy joined private and public sector leaders at the White House today to recognize progress and take new steps to curb emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air conditioning. Administrator McCarthy announced additional EPA actions to reduce HFC emissions and ...
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Flood-affected Serbian farmers receive EU and FAO aid
European Union assistance to flood-affected Serbian farm households got under way with a first delivery of animal feed here today. Financed by the EU and delivered in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the assistance forms part of the EU's overall flood recovery package to Serbia valued at €30m. Farmers in Trstenik are among the first to receive the EU ...
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EPA Honors Dunwoody’s Sprouts Farmers Market for its Climate Protection Efforts
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored Sprouts Farmers Market of Dunwoody, Georgia, for its innovative climate-friendly refrigeration technology. Regional Administrator Heather McTeer Toney presented the store with a GreenChill Platinum-Level Store Certification, the highest honor under the GreenChill Partnership program, for its deployment of a transcritical CO2 ...
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TUESDAY: EPA to Present Sprouts Farmers Market in Dunwoody, Ga with GreenChill Certification
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Heather McTeer Toney will deliver remarks and award GreenChill Platinum-Level Store Certification, the highest level of certification, to Sprouts Farmers Market in Dunwoody, Ga. Regional Administrator Toney will recognize the store for responding to President Obama’s Climate Action Plan by ...
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DAFWA researcher wins Seed of Light award
The winner of the 2014 Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) western region Seed of Light award is Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) research officer Ben Biddulph. The presentation of the award – made annually to someone who makes a significant contribution to communicating the outcomes of grains research – took place today at Perth’s Agribusiness Crop ...
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Beast of a weed creeping across Midwest from south
It's a beast of a weed, creeping north into the Midwest from cotton country. Palmer amaranth can shoot up as high as 7 feet, and just one plant can produce up to a million seeds. Herbicide is increasingly futile against it, and the weed's thick stems and deep roots make it hard work to clear by hand. It can slash yields and profits when it gets out of control. Midwestern weed scientists are ...
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Sprouts Farmers Market Featured in Webinar on Improving Facilities Management
Verisae, Inc. (“Verisae”), the leading global provider of maintenance, energy, and environmental management software, is pleased to feature Sprouts Farmers Market, one of the fastest growing grocery retailers in the United States, in a live webinar and case study. The free webinar, hosted by Verisae and presented by Jerry Stutler, V.P. Construction and Facility Engineering at Sprouts, ...
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Sprouts Farmers Market Implements Verisae Software to Enable Connected Facilities
Verisae, the leading global provider of maintenance, energy, and environmental management software, is pleased to announce that Sprouts Farmers Market, one of the fastest growing grocery retailers in the United States, recently implemented core modules of the Verisae Connected Facility platform; Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Enterprise Refrigerant Management (ERM) and Enterprise Asset ...
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U.S. EPA honors sprouts farmers market in westlake village as platinum – level greenchill partner for environmental achievements
At a community welcoming event held by Sprouts Farmer’s Market’s new store in Westlake, Calif., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership awarded the Sprouts store its Platinum Certification Award, EPA’s highest honor – and a California first - for green refrigeration. GreenChill was created by EPA in 2007, partnering with food retailers to ...
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Pesticide distributors in Washington State fined over $35,000 for illegal imports and mislabeled products (WA)
Three pesticide distributors working in Washington State will be fined over $35,000 for mislabeling products and importing illegal pesticides, according to EPA orders. Skyline Chemical, LLC, Axss USA and Pace International will pay penalties for violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Skyline failed to follow proper pesticide registration and labeling rules, which ...
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U.S. EPA recognizes SoCal supermarkets sprouts farmers market, Supervalu, as GreenChill partners for environmental achievements (CA)
Sprouts Farmers Market and Supervalu, parent company of Lucky’s Southern California and Albertsons, are among the recipients of this year’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership 2010 Environmental Achievement Awards. Regional supermarket companies featured prominently among the award winners. GreenChill is an EPA partnership with supermarkets to reduce ...
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EPA recognizes GreenChill partners sprouts farmers market and Kysor/Warren for environmental achievement (TX)
EPA’s GreenChill Partnership announced the recipients of the program’s 2010 Environmental Achievement Awards. Regional supermarket companies featured prominently among the award winners. GreenChill is an EPA partnership with supermarkets to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change. GreenChill partners work to transition to ...
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