Monsanto building $2.4M corn breeding station in Miss.
Monsanto said it plans to break ground Tuesday on a new $2.4 million corn breeding station in Flora, Miss. (MON)
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Monsanto’s Roundup gets new Chinese competitor
Beijing-based agricultural biotech firm Origin Agritech Ltd. said Monday that it has developed a pesticide business unit for premium branded chemical products, including a glyphosate weed killer. Monsanto initially patented and sold glyphosate under the name Roundup, for which its U.S. patent expired in 2000. (MON)
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Oregon nurseries sue S. Carolina
The Oregon Association of Nurseries and the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers has filed a lawsuit against the state of South Carolina.
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Colorado Senate panel balks at jobs exemption to urban-renewal bill
A Colorado Senate committee did not add a broad job-creation exemption Monday to a bill that would clamp down on the types of land used in urban-renewal zones, setting up what could be a lively debate on the chamber floor.
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Danforth’s Sayre to be guest on NPR’s 'Science Friday'
Dr. Richard Sayre, director of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels and principal investigator of the BioCassava Plus program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, will be a guest on a live broadcast of NPR’s “Science Friday.”
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Animal ailments spur company in search for $8 million
DURHAM – For more than 50 years, dairy farmers have relied on a crude, manual test to determine whether their cows suffer from a common and costly infection that cuts milk production and dairy farm profits.
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Bill hits use of ag land for urban projects
Urban-renewal authorities, once the redeveloper of last resort for inner-city slums and dilapidated factory sites, are being used more by local governments looking to attract manufacturers and even malls in recent years.
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Bills could cut, delay Maryland estate tax for family-owned farms
The next generation of Maryland farmers may stay in business longer if legislation passes in Annapolis to eliminate or delay the payment of estate taxes.
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Blizzards wreak havoc on Maryland farms’ income, properties
Losing $8,000 while the snow kept falling was the last thing beef farmer Cindi Umbarger needed in a dreary February.
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Blue Diamond leases McClellan warehouse for storage
Blue Diamond Growers will expand its local operations with an 80,000-square-foot warehouse at McClellan Business Park, making it the sixth lease the former air force base has attracted during the past two months.
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Legal challenge to livestock owners threatens Washington state’s dairies
Environmentalists are challenging Washington livestock owners’ traditional free access to well water in a legal fight that dairy farmers fear could put many of the state’s 450 dairies out of business.
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