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Monsanto's Drought Tolerance Trait In Genuity DroughtGard Hybrids Receives Final Major Import Approval From China
2013-06-17 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
ST. LOUIS, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China, a major importer of U.S. corn grain and dried distillers grain solubles, has officially granted full regulatory import authorization for Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) MON 87460 trait, the biotechnology trait in Genuity DroughtGard Hybrids, as part of a broader series of approvals. This represents a significant step forward for technology approvals in China. read more
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Video: South Texas Drought Is Relentless
2013-06-17 05:02:00| Beef
Southwest Farm Press Relentless -- thats the way Dan Fromme, assistant professor and Texas AgriLife Extension agronomist at Corpus Christi, describes the persistent drought that has devastated cropland and pastures for the last two years and promises to do so again in 2013. read more
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Western drought intensifies, leads to deadly wildfires
2013-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A record-breaking heat wave intensified drought conditions in much of the West during the past week, with 72 percent of the land area in the 10 Western states now in drought conditions, according to the latest update to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The worst impacts of the drought are concentrated in the Southwest: New Mexico, Texas, Southern Colorado and the western parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska all contain land that is under extreme or exceptional drought. The hot weather -- Denver had...
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As drought turns to flood, farmers get 'weather whiplash.'
2013-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: As Chris Webber checked the 40 acres of muddy field he wanted to plant on a recent morning, he worried about getting more rain, even as he worried about the lack of it. "The drought is over at the moment," he says. "But in Missouri, we tend to say that in 10 days or two weeks, we can be in a drought again. That's how fast it can get back to dry." Midwestern farmers like Webber, who has a family farm in central Missouri, are suffering from "weather whiplash," according to meteorologist Jeff...
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Drought, river fragmentation forcing endangered fish out of water, biologist finds
2013-06-06 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A Kansas State University researcher is discovering that the North American drought has caused dramatic changes in native fish communities. "A couple of key species that we have been studying have virtually disappeared where they historically were abundant," said Keith Gido, professor of biology who researches fish ecology and conservation of aquatic systems. Gido and his team study state and federal endangered and threatened fish species in river ecosystems, including the Arkansas, Kansas,...
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