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South Dakota Pork Congress January 9-10, 2013

2013-01-05 13:34:00| National Hog Farmer

The 44th annual South Dakota Pork Congress is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 9-10, 2013 at the Ramkota Exhibit Hall in Sioux Falls, SD. More than 100 exhibitors will be featured in the tradeshow. Attend annual business meetings and educational seminars. The Master Pork Producers Recognition banquet will be held on Wednesday, and an awards luncheon will take place Thursday. See the full schedule at http://www.sdppc.org/FileLibrary/States/SD/Trade%20Show/2013%2044th%20Annual%20Trade%20Show%20Schedule.pdf. The South Dakota Pork Congress will be held Wednesday and Thursday, January 9-10 at the Ramkota Exhibit Hall in Sioux Falls, SD. Location Ramkota Exhibit Hall Sioux Falls, SD United States 43° 32' 59.91" N, 96° 42' 1.1772" W See map: Google Maps read more

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Library of Congress digs in to full archive of 170 billion tweets

2013-01-05 03:05:05| CNET News.com

It took four years to hit 21 billion tweets. Now, Twitter users generate nearly half a billion a day, and the Library of Congress will be archiving and indexing all of them. [Read more]

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Congress Extends Incentives for Biodiesel Industry

2013-01-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The Congressional budget deal brokered this week kept tax breaks in place for a variety of industries, but biodiesel got something even better: a retroactive reinstatement of a dollar-a-gallon credit going back to January 2012, when it lapsed. The retroactive portion of the credit, which will run through the end of 2013, represents a benefit to the blenders of about $1 billion. And the $1 per gallon of biodiesel amounts to roughly one-quarter of the fuels current wholesale price. With the credit...

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Obama Administration, Key Congress Members Standing by Plans to Drill Offshore in the Arctic

2013-01-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Anchorage Daily News: Critics want a halt to offshore Arctic drilling in the wake of Shell's latest mishap in the waters off Alaska but there's no sign the Obama administration and key members of Congress are backing off their support for drilling in the sensitive region. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar let Shell begin preparatory drilling in Alaska's Arctic waters this summer, the first time in two decades. Environmental groups on Thursday called for the administration to immediately stop all permitting for Arctic...

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