Stating that for a country of 1.2 billion people it is imperative to build a certain self-sufficiency in meeting basic needs, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that for a nation...

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) In 2000, Black Island Farms was the first project financed by the LeRay McAlister Fund, which paid for development rights on the Syracuse property. Owner...

A fresh look at cultivations' role in tackling the blackgrass menace on heavy land unsuited to spring crops is under way in Cambridgeshire. First year results suggest early direct drilling of...

Precise rules for the use of tags - electronic and visual - vary across the UK but broadly agree that lambs intended for breeding need to be double tagged with an EID and a visual identifier and...

The hearing is part of a debate that is coming to life around the country, in courtrooms and Occupy sites, in boardrooms and online, with new petitions, ballot initiatives and lawsuits from...

Follow this company for more than 25 years. Lawrie succeeds Michael Laphen, who is retiring as CEO and chairman. The CSC board of directors also announced that Rodney Chase, a current...

Robert Trent Jones II, Golf Course Architects that included updates to the Princeville Clubhouse designed by Group 70 International. Montage Golf, which will also oversee the Princeville Golf Club...

Follow this company said Tuesday that its November passenger traffic was up 1.6 percent from a year earlier. The airport counted 4,088,543 passengers in November, bringing year-to-date...

Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation On Our National Forests' Charts Course For Federal Agency; U.S. Forest Service Seeks To Reduce Major Threats Through...

For the past six years students at the Dubai International Academy have been learning about the importance of how simple, everyday activities can make a big difference in building a sustainable...

La Paz, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero has warned that those who try to hinder the process for the eradication of coca leaves will be punished by the law. Any position...

Follow this company owns eight other states. MapLight, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on money and politics, released that information and a database showing the top five...

Follow this company flew 6.8 percent more passengers in January when compared to last year, the Honolulu-based airline said Tuesday. Hawaiian, a subsidiary...

Follow this company , which began a pilot program in Orlando, San Diego and Detroit in 2010 to take offers for Fannie Mae-owned houses online, is expanding the online program nationwide. ...

Follow this company 's Hawaii operation has expanded to Maui with the opening of an office in Kahului. The 450-square-foot office at 173 Alamaha St. is managed...

Follow this company posted sharply higher fourth-quarter profit Tuesday, with earnings in line with analysts' expectations, but its CEO sounded a note of caution for 2012. The Douglas...

center for investigative reporting sign letter of intent to merge. Details to come." For context -- some say it's too long to count as a blog post -- see my...

The majority of a Victory Park condo project was sold back to its lender for $32 million on Tuesday, along with a nearby retail site for $3.5 million at Tuesday's foreclosure auction in Dallas...

showing both a rise in median sales prices for single-family homes and condos could signal a shift to a seller's market. This is especially true when looking at the steady rise of the median...

Courtesy Robertson Properties This rendering shows a portion of Los Angeles-based Robertson Properties' plan to redevelop the former Kamehameha Drive-in property in Aiea on Oahu into a mixed-use...

Farmers who claim more EU subsidies than they should, or who break Common Agricultural Policy rules, are now more likely to be caught out by a camera in the sky than an inspector calling with a...

Brazil is on course to overtake the United States as the world's top producer of biotech crops in the coming years, a leading promoter of farm biotechnology said Tuesday. The United States...

Arla Foods is starting to recruit more farmers to supply milk for its new 150m fresh milk dairy in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Construction work at the site started this week and is expected to be...

Yellow and brown rust is threatening to be a serious problem as in 2006/07, agronomists believe. It means the timing and effectiveness of the T0 treatment will be vital to protect crops going into...

The recent cold weather has been welcome, say this week's Crop Watch agronomists, checking forward crops and high disease levels. "The cold weather has finally brought the green area index...

Ford reckons its all-new Ranger pickup can outgun the established Japanese marques, explains David Cousins. o To see more information on the new Ranger, plus photos and videos of it being used, go...

Investment in agricultural innovation must be significantly increased if Europe is to avoid becoming the "granny of the world" in terms of technology and food production, say Lords. Lord...

It's not just the Queen who'll be celebrating this June - two farmers will also be marking their "diamond jubilee". Identical twins Tom and Harold Bickerton have also enjoyed the...

Young farming talent will go head-to-head in a TV show later this month designed to find the BBC Young Farmer of the Year. The programme, which will air on Sunday February 26 at 8pm on BBC 3, is part...

Global plantings of genetically crops rose by 8% in 2011 taking the total area of biotech crops in the world to 160m ha, according to latest statistics. Figures releases by the International Service...

HO CHI MINH -- Vietnam's agricultural sector will export US$40 billion worth of agro-forestry and fisheries products by 2020 under a masterplan approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last...

Woods Equipment Offers "24 Equal Monthly Payments With No Interest*" Retail Finance Program on All New Equipment in Partnership With TD Retail Card...

(Reuters) - The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8...

Follow this company and Trinity Financial. HYM Investment Group is proposing to remove the top four floors, demolish the building to the steel and build new floors and a glass exterior...

GMRI Inc., which operates restaurant Seasons 52, won preliminary approval Monday for $200,000 in Birmingham incentives for a new location at The Summit. The Birmingham Economic Development Committee...

Milt Priggee kept busy with his visual commentary this January. Click on the cartoon above right for the slide show. Here are some highlights: The state Legislature opened a new session in Olympia,...

Follow this company has expanded its Indianapolis operations by opening its fourth office in the city. The new location will provide staffing services for logistics, warehouse, clerical,...

National Association for Female Executives 2012 list of the "Top 50 Companies for Executive Women," which was recently released. It was the third consecutive year the firm was named to the...

Follow this company opened a global logistics and transportation practice in Miami. The office is the Atlanta-based law firm's third. The Miami office will be led...

Officials at Parkland Hospital say they won't release a consultant's study on how to improve problems that have threatened the hospital's ability to receive Medicare...

Jon Arfstrom . He lowered his rating on the downtown-based bank's stock Monday from "outperform" to "sector perform." Arfstrom kept his price target of $19 on the shares....

Courtesy photo Michael Wyzga was CFO of Genzyme during its acquisition by Sanofi last April. He is now CEO of Radius Health, a Cambridge biotech seeking an IPO that focuses on osteoporosis and...

7. Washington University's annual tuition is about $40,950. However, when you add in room and board costs ($13,119), required fees ($1,042) and book expenses ($1,390) the total comes out to be...

Barley water is used to make nutritious beverages in many cuisines. I discovered that it can be useful as a sort of sauce when I used the water I'd drained from my purple barley to moisten a pan of...

Cull cow prices reached a record high of 112.3p/kg liveweight in the week ending 28 January, but dipped sharply last week after a good year in 2011. A substantial increase in exports to non-EU...

Confirmed cases of a virus causing deformities in newborn lambs have trebled - and the disease has now spread to cattle. The number of confirmed cases of Schmallenberg virus now stands at 33 -...

Harnessing power from livestock waste has enabled one of the UK's largest agricultural colleges to slash energy costs and eliminate its carbon footprint. Harper Adams University will eventually...

Grain prices strengthened again on Monday, taking London feed wheat futures to 168.50/t for May, the highest for almost five months. The gap between old and new crop prices has grown, with November...

levels are variable this season, according to initial GrowHow N-min sample results. Just over 40% of the 520 samples analysed are at Index 1 or below, around a third are Index 2 or 3, while just over...

Veterinary experts have confirmed two new cases of Schmallenberg virus in south-east England and East Anglia. Deformed lambs born on farms in Sussex and Norfolk were caused by the virus, farmers in...