UBS ' Agricultural Dealer Survey Points To Slowdown In Farm Machinery Sales
UBS recently came out with its 20th Agricultural Dealer Survey, which shows that farm equipment dealers continue to expect lower farm machinery sales in 2006. The firm also says the level of dealer...
View ArticleCorn Growers Oppose Lifting Import Tariff On Ethanol
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), along with the Farm Bureau and the Renewable Fuels Association, are opposing efforts by House leaders and the...
View ArticleFSIS Launches Program To Boost Food Safety At Small Meat Processing Plants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced a initiative to provide the assistance necessary for small and very small meat-processing plant...
View ArticleEthanol Boosts Corn Prices
According to a report released today from the Agriculture Department, an increased demand for ethanol will push corn prices higher this year. The amount of corn used to make ethanol should increase by...
View ArticleUS Companies Struggle with Bird Flu Plans
Worrying how to cope if bird flu becomes a pandemic, U.S. companies are making contingency plans from telecommuting to letting workers sleep on the job. Companies are struggling to design ways to...
View ArticleBird Flu Vaccine Funding Awarded
The federal government on Thursday awarded more than $1 billion to five drug manufacturers developing technology for speedier mass production of vaccines in the event of a pandemic. The funding comes...
View ArticleBird Flu Found in NJ
Authorities have discovered a mild form of avian influenza at a live bird market in New Jersey. It is not, however, the deadly H5N1 strain, according to New Jersey’s agriculture department. Details...
View ArticleEthanol Crops Urged
With gasoline prices skyrocketing and no relief in site, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is urging the state's agriculture industry to consider producing crops for ethanol production....
View ArticleHuman Bird Flu Cases & at 204 After Egypt Confirms 12 Infections
Bird flu cases worldwide topped 200 after a dozen people were confirmed to have been infected with the virus in Egypt, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as reported on Bloomberg.com. ``Of the...
View ArticleChinese Government & Will Lift & Ban on American Beef
The Bush administration, seeking to shrink a soaring trade deficit with China, won agreements Tuesday that the Chinese government will lift a ban on American beef, crack down on copyright piracy and...
View ArticleChina Targets Unauthorized Industrial Projects To Cool Economy & &
BEIJING (AP) - China has ordered an urgent review of investment projects to stop unauthorized work, stepping up efforts to cool off the sizzling economy, a state news agency said Thursday. The review...
View ArticleImplementing Sustainable Practices in Manufacturing Through Industry 4.0...
Manufacturing companies are riding on the sustainability bandwagon and considering their moral duty.
View ArticleFord Experiments with Super Duty Truck Line
The company is shutting down production to catch quality problems before trucks leave the lot.
View ArticleFord Aerospace Acquired by SPIROL
Ford Aerospace’s technical skills in ‘space compensating’ management attracted SPIROL.
View ArticleSeurat Technologies Partners with Siemens Energy to Manufacture 59 Tons of...
Development will ramp up over a six-year-period for parts.
View ArticleRocket Carrying Astronaut's Remains Explodes After Launch
The rocket failed to reach its target altitude due to an anomaly.
View ArticleAirbus Glider to Become Highest-Flying Aircraft of All Time
It has already reached some ridiculously high altitudes for an engineless glider.
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