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Corpus Christi is among recipients of $750,000 in smart growth assistance provided by EPA
Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities is a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities among EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The interagency collaboration coordinates federal investments in infrastructure, facilities, and services to get better results for communities and use taxpayer money more ...
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Port Arthur is among recipients of $750,000 in smart growth assistance provided by EPA
Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities is a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities among EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The interagency collaboration coordinates federal investments in infrastructure, facilities, and services to get better results for communities and use taxpayer money more ...
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LimnoTech Participates in UofM SWAT Workshop
LimnoTech is featured in a recent University of Michigan Water Center newsletter for our participation in a SWAT workshop. SWAT, the Soil Water Assessment Tool, is a powerful model that allows users to determine the impacts of land management practices on water, sediment, and nutrient yields in agricultural watersheds. Throughout the Great Lakes region, scientists and resource managers are using ...
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Agricultural crisis: €500m aid package not enough, say MEPs
The Commission's €500 million aid package revealed last week is a step in the right direction but it might be not enough to get farmers struggling with falling prices back on their feet, many MEPs told Commissioner Phil Hogan in a debate on Wednesday. Crisis management instruments should be improved, and the position of farmers in the food supply chain strengthened, said MEPs. Some also ask ...
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USDA Convenes Public Meeting Of The Advisory Committee On Biotechnology And 21st Century Agriculture
On May 9, 2016, USDA announced a public meeting of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21). AC21 was created to provide the USDA Secretary with information on agriculture biotechnology issues, including the long-term impacts of biotechnology on the U.S. food and agriculture system, and to provide guidance on immediate issues. The AC21 meeting will consider the ...
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25 Workshops in 5 Tracks on tap at AFBF Annual Convention
More than 25 educational workshops will be offered at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 95th Annual Convention, Jan. 12-15, 2014, in San Antonio. That’s up from 12 workshops offered in previous years. Workshops are organized into five tracks: Building Better Advocates. Just talking about the issues is not enough for Farm Bureau members. In the context of becoming a better ...
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Cassava disease monitoring goes mobile
Mobile phones are the unlikely weapons being used to fight cassava disease in Tanzania, in a collaboration between scientists and farmers. As part of the Digital Early Warning Network (DEWN) farmers from ten districts in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania will be trained to recognise the symptoms of Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD). They will then send monthly ...
By SciDev.Net
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FAO strikes media deal with International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
AO and the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) are joining forces to promote wider global sharing of agricultural information and better highlight FAO’s activities in specialized agricultural media worldwide. An agreement signed today by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and IFAJ President Markus Rediger outlines various joint activities to be ...
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Counterfeit GreenOK products are sold in Lithuania
Dear farmers! We inform you that in the Lithuanian market counterfeit GreenOK Universal PRO, SUPER MIX and GreenCYTOKININ of Latvian manufacturer Ražošanas Tehnoloģijas are for sale. In 2018, cooperation between the manufacturer GreenOK products and the Lithuanian enterprise AGRODEMA UAB, registration number 225388630, was discontinued. Products offered by AGRODEMA UAB under the ...
By GreenOK
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Factsheet on UAVs
The agricultural sector sees SPAA as a trusted source of PA information, and the production of factsheets led to new knowledge, on-going support and highlights the importance of these tools as part of their business and continues to create a network for farmers and the private sector to work together and share knowledge.With thanks to SAGIT, the project produced a total of six factsheets and ...
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XPRT Media officially launches Agriculture XPRT, the sister site of Environmental XPRT
Today, all of us here at XPRT Media are proud to announce the official launch of Environmental XPRT’s sister site, Agriculture XPRT. Agriculture XPRT is your one stop resource for agricultural news, product information, suppliers, events and industry analysis. This new marketplace aims to bridge the gap between agricultural solution providers and buyers across the globe, just as ...
By XPRT
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Conference: Coexistence of GM and non-GM in international trade
There is a tension in the coexistence of genetically modified (GM) and non-genetically modified agricultural supply chains. Therefore the side by side existence of biotechnological, conventional and organic food and feed in international supply chains and trade, is the subject of the biannual conference, organised from 17 to 20 November in Amsterdam by the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy ...
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Deere Emphasizes Importance of Precision Agriculture Despite Termination of Acquisition
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) announced it was informed by Monsanto Company that it has chosen to terminate a 2015 agreement for Deere to acquire the Precision Planting LLC business. "We are deeply disappointed in this outcome as we remain confident the acquisition would have benefited customers," said John May, President, Agricultural Solutions and Chief Information Officer. In 2016, ...
By John Deere
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IGNIA fund I invests MX$38.1 million in Barafon, an innovative provider of public telecommunications and related services to low income populations
IGNIA Fund I, LP, the first impact investing fund in Latin America, announced today that it has invested MX$38.1 million (US$3.1 million) in Servicios Caseteros S.A.P.I. de C.V. ("Barafon"), a provider of public telephony and related services to low income populations in Mexico through a network of independently owned micro-businesses. "Barafon caters to the population at the base of the ...
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Ministers meet at FAO to discuss role of agricultural commodity markets
Governments ought to review the way international agricultural commodity markets are governed, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told ministers from around the world gathered for a meeting on the subject Monday. Commodity markets caught global attention due to volatile food prices in the past five years. While prices are currently declining, Graziano da Silva noted that ...
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Global alliance to strengthen research–farmer links
An international alliance of research institutions will try to implement the results of agricultural research and to communicate findings to smallholder farmers in developing nations. The Association of International Research and Development Centres for Agriculture (AIRCA) was launched last month (30 October) at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development in Uruguay. ...
By SciDev.Net
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Now available: Leica SteerDirect ES Plus for more powerful and accurate steering in precision farming
Leica Geosystems today released the Leica SteerDirect ES Plus, the electric steering system for farmers who seek a brand independent retrofit solution for their auto steering needs. Using Leica SteerDirect ES Plus farmers benefit from improved accuracy, diminished skips and overlaps, and reduced operator fatigue. The Leica SteerDirect ES Plus has a built-in encoder for more accurate steering ...
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Chief negotiators of EU institutions agree on transition measures for agriculture in 2014
Today the Council and the European Parliament reached political agreement ad referendum on transitional measures for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2014 in an informal inter-institutional meeting in Strasbourg. The main elements of this agreement were discussed in an informal trilogue on this issue held in Brussels on 17 October. The agreement on the reform of the CAP reached between ...
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FAO calls on countries to adapt to food price volatility
The world’s food price problems are not over despite a current market lull, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a ministerial meeting on international food prices today attended by some 30 agriculture ministers. The Director-General acknowledged that this year’s meeting was taking place in a less troubled climate than the first event in October 2012, when ...
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EPA approves three new moth mating disruption products
Semios, provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has been given EPA approval for three aerosol pheromone products that disrupt the mating of codling moth and oriental fruit moth. “Our new formula performs extremely well at lower temperatures, emitting a drier mist that disperses quickly across an orchard,” said Michael Gilbert, CEO of ...
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