Butler Machinery Provides FFA Scholarships
Butler Machinery is pleased to announce that it’s an approved National Future Farmers of America (FFA) scholarship sponsor and will, in cooperation with AGCO, Your Agriculture Company, provide five $500 scholarships for the 2011-2012 FFA scholarship year.

2011/05/28

Potential benefits of Golden Rice highlighted in recent media articles
Last month we announced that a new partner has joined our work to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency. At the same time, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new grant to fund this project in the Philippines and Bangladesh. This is a summary of the media coverage, highlighting the new partnership and the potential benefits.

2011/05/09

Golden Rice booth to rise at crop science conference
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) are teaming up to exhibit at the 21st Scientific Conference of the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines (FCSSP) on May 9-14, 2011 at the La Piazza Hotel and Convention Center in Legaspi City, Philippines.

2011/05/09

MotherShip Led – an innovative new development of LED Grow Lights
LED (short for Light emitting diode) grow lights are used by plant growers using hydroponics, as a substitution source of high intensity lighting for those that consume more power.

2011/05/05

Optimize your plant cultivation with Bud Ignitor
As a result, practically 70% to 100% of the plants’ stem nodes will be ripe for igniting the flowering points. Plant growers like Jimmy can now experience a substantial yield in flower growth

2011/05/05

PAVA’s enterprises are leading in export shipments
Based on March 2011 results the volume of flour shipped by PAVA to its foreign partners exceeded the volumes shipped by other grain processors based in Altay region.

2011/04/08

AAA supports Forestry Commission's Wood Fuel Grant Announcement
Investment news and analysis portal, Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), has stated its support for the Forestry Commission’s decision to introduce a grant to boost wood fuel production in the UK.

2011/04/04

Japan's imports of Logs, Lumber, Plywood set to increase to its highest since 2008
Japan is in urgent need of pre-fabricated houses and manufactured wood products in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in early March. Longer term, it can be expected that imports of commodity products such as plywood, lumber and logs will increase to this country, which is already one of the largest importers of wood products in the world, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly

2011/03/30

African Development Fund (ADF) sanctions US$ 14.61 million for Watershed Protection Project
Watershed Protection Project in Burundi will help in strengthening the food security by improving the soil.

2011/03/18