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Is Climate Change Pushing Pests into Northern Farms?
2013-09-01 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: In 1996 Colorado received a very unwelcome--and hungry--house guest, the mountain pine beetle, whose voracious appetite for pine has since killed off millions of acres of trees there. A few years later, the beetles came knocking in British Columbia and have now knocked out over half the province's pine timber. The full-bore invasion of these critters, each no bigger than a grain of rice, is now one of the most pressing ecological disasters in the West, and their spread, scientists believe, is driven...
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Sanderson Farms 3rd-qtr profit leaps; shares slump
2013-08-27 20:04:45| Food - Topix.net
Sanderson Farms said Tuesday its net income more than doubled in the fiscal third quarter, reflecting higher prices for its poultry products.
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FAO: Benefits of School Feeding Programmes Linked to Family Farms
2013-08-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - A study undertaken by FAO in Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru showcases the contributions that school feeding programmes are making to strengthening children's social protection, food security and nutritional status.
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Perdue Farms Awarded LEED Platinum Green Building Certification
2013-08-17 15:34:52| Food - Topix.net
Perdue Farms announced that it has received Platinum certification - the highest possible ranking - for the renovation of its corporate office building from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building certification program.
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Natural Power provides technical due diligence services for wind farms in France
2013-08-16 01:00:00| Power Technology
Independent renewable energy consultancy firm, Natural Power, has completed full lenders technical due diligence services for four wind farms in northern France, on behalf of funding banks Nord/LB and HSH Nordbank.
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