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Lifeasible Updated Its Offerings for Insecticidal Proteins
Lifeasible, a leading provider of innovative agricultural solutions, is pleased to announce the expansion and enhancement of its offerings for insecticidal proteins. With a commitment to sustainable and effective pest control, Lifeasible continues to develop and provide cutting-edge solutions to address the challenges faced by farmers and growers worldwide. Insect pests pose a significant threat ...
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Factors That Affect The Cost Of Tyre Pyrolysis Plant
Simply how much are you aware about the expense of owning and operating a tyre pyrolysis plant? Are you currently aware what sets a selected model aside from others? Can you comprehend the factors that actually matter with regards to success in this business? In this article, we shall discuss the total cost of establishing a totally new tyre pyrolysis plant and what you must do in order to create ...
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Bloomberg - California Blackout Risk Prompts Produce Plant to Build Its Own Grid
California’s repeated brushes with blackouts proved too much for Taylor Farms. The produce supplier, based in the farm country John Steinbeck made famous, can’t afford to lose refrigeration at its facilities where lettuce and vegetables are trimmed, mixed into salads and packaged for sale. So working with Bloom Energy Corp., Taylor Farms is installing a microgrid at its 450,000 ...
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Welcome to the world of Sector Coupling by Green Molecules
Boson Energy is an enabler of true decarbonization and zero-emission transport: We are on a path path towards 1 million tons of Circular Hydrogen by 2030 Climate tech building capacity to save 25M tons of CO2 per year by 2030 – by producing 1M tons of local Hydrogen from 10M tons of non-recyclable waste Boson Energy went back to the roots of chemistry and system efficiency to develop ...
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Oenosans lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture
How Oenosan benefits to the prosperity of winegrowers Oenosan is taken from the Greek word ‘Oinos’, which means wine. Indeed, this ingenious lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture. Moreover, this substance is certified organic in Belgium by Certisys BE-BIO 001 and is also allowed in Dutch organic farming (see Skal website). In ...
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Oenosan protect vineyards against frost
How to protect vines from late frosts? Late frost are very often a disaster for winegrowers when they are not prepared correctly. Normally vines can withstand frost well. Only, the natural protection disappears when the plant produces new shoots. After all, the plant needs all its energy and attention to bring this process to a successful conclusion. If the vineyard is located ...
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Segra Enters Into Strategic Plant Genotyping And Tissue Culture Agreement With Sugarbud
Segra International Corp. (“Segra“) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic plant genotyping and tissue culture agreement with Sugarbud Craft Growers Corp. (TSXV: SUGR, SUGR.WT, SUGR.RT) (“Sugarbud“) through its wholly owned subsidiary Segra Biogenesis Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, which includes royalties tied to production success, Segra ...
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Segra Awarded Nursery License from Health Canada for its Flagship Cannabis Tissue Culture Nursery
Segra International Corp., an agriculture technology company, is pleased to announce that it has received a Cannabis Nursery License from Health Canada for the company’s flagship cannabis tissue culture nursery located in New Westminster, BC. This new facility, to be known as the ‘New Westminster Plant Factory’ represents a true industry first. Segra’s high tech plant ...
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Production of California coastal seaweed communities
The rugged low power D-Opto range of dissolved oxygen instruments have made a tangible difference to the outcomes of a Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research (SBC-LTER) programme. The project’s objective is to determine the relative influence of land- and ocean-based forces on the forests of giant kelp (Macrocystis) off the Santa Barbara coast. These forces include river ...
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Creating Gaseous Micro Environments for Packaged Produce to Maintain the Quality of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Food has often had a long and arduous journey before it reaches our plates, and creating gaseous micro environments ensures the preservation of food quality. In the United States, it is estimated that food typically travels between 1500 and 2500 miles1 between the farms where it is produced and the dinner table where it is ultimately consumed. What we think of as ‘fresh’ fruit and ...
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World leaders `have moral obligation to go vegan`
Many of our world leaders have remained almost silent about the UN warning that we have just 12 years to halt a climate catastrophe. That’s why the Million Dollar Vegancampaign offered $1m to charity if Pope Francis chooses to eat only plant-based foods during Lent, and encourages Catholics around the world to do the same. The campaign has so far attracted more than 500 media articles in ...
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New Farm Bill Legislation to Legalize Hemp
President Trump is expected to sign the 2018 Farm Bill, a massive, five-year piece of legislation that outlines regulations on everything from food stamps to environmental land use. This particular Farm Bill has one piece of legislature that previous versions have not included – it is legalizing industrial hemp, including the plants used to produce CBD. CBD has previously been in a ...
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Segra International Partners with Supreme Cannabis to Support Expansion Efforts Leading into Legalization
Segra International Corp. (“Segra” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with The Supreme Cannabis Company (“Supreme Cannabis”) (TSXV:FIRE) (OTCQX: SPRWF) (FRA: 53S1) to provide cannabis micropropagation services at Supreme Cannabis’ wholly owned 7ACRES facility in Kincardine, Ontario. Plant micropropagation, also ...
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TEP Seeks Information about Forest Biomass Generation Technologies, Opportunities
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is seeking information about forest biomass generation systems that could generate power for customers while improving the health of Arizona forests.On June 29, 2018, TEP issued a request for information (RFI) about technologies, costs, environmental benefits, construction requirements and interconnection requirements of forest biomass energy projects. Information ...
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EU issues implementing regulation on novel foods
On 19 March 2018, the European Union issued a Regulation implementing article 4 of Regulation 2283/2015 on novel foods. The new regulation concerns the consultation process for the determination of novel food status. The regulation becomes effective on 8 April 2018. Verisk 3E Analysis Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/456 of 19 March 2018 on the procedural steps of the consultation ...
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`Banana has a future after all`
The banana has been severely affected by fungal diseases that can only be combated by using omore and more plant protection products. In the last century, the much-loved Gros Michel banana variety was wiped out as a result of Panama disease. But now the replacement variety Cavendish – available in every supermarket – is at risk. At his inauguration as professor by special appointment ...
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Rust on Corn More Prevalent This Summer
Resembling rust on a pickup, a fungal disease that can afflict corn has been confirmed in a higher than usual number of cornfields in southern Ohio. Southern rust (pictured above) and common rust have attacked a higher than usual number of southern Ohio fields this year. Every year, some Ohio farmers find southern or common rust on their corn plants, but this year both diseases have been more ...
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GMO crops could expect a brighter future
One of the touchier areas of scientific research – in much of Europe, at least – is the genetic manipulation of food plants, seaweed and algae to try to produce more food or provide better rates of conversion into biofuels. But across the Atlantic genetically-modified crops (GMOs) are increasingly a different story. They are a deeply controversial subject because early versions of GM ...
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NCC Survey Suggests U.S. Producers to Plant 11.0 Million Acres of Cotton in 2017
U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 11.0 million cotton acres this spring, up 9.4 percent from 2016, according to the National Cotton Council’s 36th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey. (see table attached) Upland cotton intentions are 10.8 million acres, up 8.8 percent from 2016, while extra-long staple (ELS) intentions of 266,000 acres represent a 36.9 percent increase. The ...
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Faster and better breeding of sustainable and healthy quinoa
An international team of scientists, including quinoa breeding experts from Wageningen University & Research, published the complete DNA sequence of quinoa – the food crop that is conquering the world from South America – in Nature magazine on 8 February 2017. Quinoa is rich in essential amino acids and nutritional fibres and does not contain gluten. The crop is important to ...
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