Keyword: Agriculture

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Canada’s Agrium Going Ahead With Texas Nitrogen Expansion

26.02.2014 - Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium said this week it will proceed with plans for a US$ 720 million expansion of a nitrogen plant at Borger, Texas. Plans include a new urea production...

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EPA Implements Rules for Farm Worker Pesticide Exposure

25.02.2014 - Following what it said was a decade of stakeholder input across the agricultural community, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced proposed revisions to the...

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German Abstention Opens EU Door to Second GMO Maize

12.02.2014 - Thanks to Germany's abstention, the EU Council of Ministers on Feb. 11 elected by default to approve cultivation of a new type of insect-resistant genetically modified maize...

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GMO critics’ Resolutions Fail at Monsanto AGM

30.01.2014 - Two shareholder resolutions backed by environmental, food safety and consumer activists groups failed to be approved at Monsanto's annual general meeting in suburban St. Louis...

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Tessenderlo Clinches Fertilizer Deal With Iran

21.01.2014 - Belgian chemical producer Tessenderlo said it plans to ship fertilizer to Iran "within weeks," as the easing of Western financial sanctions has helped the Middle East country...

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Dow Chemical Puts Additional Businesses up for Sale

30.10.2013 - Dow Chemical is hanging the "for sale" sign on additional links in its value chain, raising the sum of assets it plans to divest over the next few months from $1.5 billion to $3-4...

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BASF Shifts R&D Focus

29.07.2013 - Technology - After announcing the framework of a new R&D strategy in the spring of last year, BASF is beginning to reveal in detail just how it is affecting its research operations...

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Probe Indicates Biotech Wheat Was "Isolated Incident"

15.06.2013 - The unapproved genetically modified wheat that was discovered sprouting in Oregon appears to have been "a single isolated incident," U.S. agricultural officials said on Friday in...