Buffalo Farming News
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Weradiate Llc Named Among the Top Winners at 2021 Grow-Ny, An Unprecedented Global Food And Agriculture Business Competition
Empire State Development and Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement have named WeRadiate LLC the $250,000 winner of Grow-NY, a food innovation and agriculture technology business competition focused on enhancing the emerging agriculture innovation cluster in Central New York, the Finger Lakes, and the Southern Tier. Marking its third year, the unprecedented ...
By WeRadiate
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NYPA Signs Host Site Agreement for First Long Duration Use of Zinc-Air Storage System at University of Buffalo
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced recently (April 8) the signing of an agreement with Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc. and the University at Buffalo for the planned deployment of the company's patented Zinc-air Energy Storage System, marking a first demonstration of a long-duration use in New York State and a development that could support further integration of renewable power sources ...
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From the Executive Director: Dirt Rich Shows Northwest Minnesota Farmers Eager to Adopt Soil Health Principles
“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The person who grasps principles can successfully select their own methods. The person who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Justin Morris, NRCS Regional Soil Health Specialist, shared this quote last week at SFA’s “Dirt Rich” ...
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Supporting the Agriculture Industry and Local Community
Supporting the agriculture industry and our local community are important to us at K & S Millwrights. Successful agriculture organizations, farmers and businesses are an integral part of what we do every day. Our local community and the organizations within it have supported K & S from our start. We like to share that same level of support with ...
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Buffalo Wire Aided Exhibition featured in Art Daily
Over the summer we were pleased to provide wire and help in the production of Lydia Okumura’s Situations. To see our full album of the project, click here. The following article from Art Daily discusses Okumura’s piece. The UB Art Galleries announces its fall exhibitions Lydia Okumura: Situations and SCREEN PROJECTS: Rodney McMillan. Lydia Okumura: Situations is the first solo ...
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Buffalo Wire to Attend MINExpo
We will be exhibiting at MINExpo September 26 – 28 in Las Vegas! We are very excited to show our conveyor system, manganese crusher parts, a rubber and urethane screener and PFX samples to take with you! Visit the MINExpo ...
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El Niño lowers early production outlook in Southern Africa
Crop and livestock production prospects in Southern Africa have been weakened by the El Niño weather phenomenon that has lowered rains and increased temperatures. A reduced agricultural output would follow on last year's disappointing season, which has already contributed to higher food prices and "could acutely impact the food security situation in 2016," according to a special alert ...
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Owners of Buffalo-Area Gas Stations Ordered to Pay $290,000 in Penalties
The owners and operators of four gasoline stations in the Buffalo, New York area have been ordered to pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a total of $287,100 in penalties. In August 2012, the EPA issued a complaint to owners and operators of gas stations in Buffalo, Amherst, and Tonawanda, N.Y., alleging violations of numerous federal regulations aimed at protecting water from petroleum ...
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Milk and dairy hold potential for improving nutrition of world’s poor
Milk and dairy products hold huge potential to improve nutrition and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of poor people across the world, according to a new FAO publication launched today. The book, Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition, says governments should be investing more in programmes that make milk and dairy products available to poor families and that help them produce milk at ...
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The EPA and the University at Buffalo Co-Host Clean Water Conference in Buffalo
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the University at Buffalo are hosting a conference in Buffalo today to discuss how Western New York communities can utilize green infrastructure projects to improve local water quality. Among the greatest challenges to improving water quality especially in urban areas are discharges and overflows of raw sewage into our waters. Some sewer systems in ...
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The EPA and the University at Buffalo to Co-Host Clean Water Conference in Buffalo; Local Governments Urged to Attend
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the University at Buffalo (UB) are co-sponsoring a conference in Buffalo on March 13, 2013 to discuss how Western New York communities can utilize green infrastructure projects. The event, called the Western New York Green Infrastructure Forum, includes a special welcome address from EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck and University of Buffalo ...
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EPA signs an agreement with the University at Buffalo to improve environmental sustainability
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed an agreement with the University at Buffalo that will expand the school’s environmental commitments. The university has agreed to enhance energy and water efficiency, reduce waste, and use green landscaping practices. The University of Buffalo is the largest school in the State University of New York system. “The University at ...
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Whole foods adopts transparent animal welfare ratings
What Do You Stand For? by Jillian Wilson Martin This summer I’ll celebrate a decade of being vegetarian (yeah, I’m getting old). Being a veggie isn’t always easy, and I can’t say I haven’t cheated on occasion (for some reason, I really craved buffalo wings when I first started), but year after year the cause has stayed important to me. But this post isn’t ...
By 3BL Media
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Civil enforcement actions taken against beef feedlots in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska for violations of clean water act (IA, KS, NE)
EPA Region 7 has taken a series of civil enforcement actions against six beef feedlot operations in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska for violations of the Clean Water Act, as part of an increased emphasis aimed at ending harmful discharges of pollutants from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) into the region’s rivers and streams. “EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has made it ...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers expands `project make [it] count` to colleges nationwide
What positive change can you make in your community with $5,000 in start-up money? That"s the question PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently asked business students from colleges across the country, giving them the opportunity to submit project proposals, receive funding and implement their ideas. Nineteen of the best proposals were selected and hundreds of students -- supported by their peers ...
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Lending promise featured in April dining for women program
Lending Promise Inc., a nonprofit organization that offers microcredit - small loans of $100 or less - to poor mothers in Nepal and India, is the featured organization at April programs of more than 180 chapters of Dining For Women (DFW) in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Dining for Women empowers poor women by funding programs fostering good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency and ...
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Bangladesh: agricultural sector devastated in cyclone-hit areas
The agriculture, livestock and fisheries sectors in southern Bangladesh have suffered enormous losses and large-scale assistance is urgently needed to address the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr, FAO said today. The cyclone has affected over 6.7 million people in 30 southern districts, and latest government reports put the death toll at around 3 000 people. According to data from the Disaster ...
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