Tag: Agriculture and Farming
Minnesota's Third Annual World Affairs Challenge to be hosted by World Savvy in partnership with Macalester College's Institute for Global Citizenship
ST. PAUL, Minn. /eNewsChannels/ -- On March 5, 2011, nearly 600 middle and high school students, teachers, volunteers, parents, and community leaders from around the Twin Cities will convene at Macalester College in St. Paul to participate in Minnesota's Third Annual World Affairs Challenge, hosted by global education non-profit World Savvy in partnership with Macalester College's Institute for Global Citizenship.
Corn LP and Solution Recovery Services partner for Corn Oil Separation System
DEXTER, Mich. /eNewsChannels/ -- Solution Recovery Services (SRS) announced today that it has signed a purchase agreement with Corn LP to supply their COSS (Corn Oil Separation System) at Corn LP's 55 million gallon ethanol plant in Goldfield, Iowa.
Noninvasive Instrument That Can Determine Pork Loin Marbling Level in Milliseconds announced by Biotronics, Inc.
AMES, Iowa /eNewsChannels/ -- Extended online tests of a newly developed instrument grading system for pork carcasses demonstrate its ability to differentiate pork loins relative to marbling levels. Researchers have long shown that marbling in the pork loin adds significantly to juiciness and flavor of chops.
Backyard Chicken Farmers: Handcrafted Chicken Coops Offers Affordable Solutions
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- A new home-farming trend sweeping North America is seeing chicken coops and small flocks of chickens appearing in suburban backyards. In support of this home-grown movement, Handcrafted Chicken Coops is offering affordable, portable chicken coops to backyard and urban chicken farmers.
Ghana Sugar Project: Food for Consumption and Food for Energy is a Complete Combination
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mr. Henry Oliver Ford has just completed the initial phase of the Ghana Sugar Project. Mr. Ford is the managing director for World Food, the firm that is owner of the project. Henry Oliver is overseeing this massive one-hundred and twenty thousand acre sugar farm and refinery.
It's Time to Provide Some Relief to African Farmers, says WFAO's Henry Oliver Ford
MIAMI, Fla. -- Henry Oliver Ford of WFAO is on a mission. Submerged in poverty, millions of African farmers and their families are victims of food insecurity. Today, subsistence farming is the lot of millions of Africans. The farmers in Ghana Africa need access to improved technologies in order to meet their food needs, increase their crop yields, and hopefully, sell to local, regional, and even international markets.
