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Maple Leaf Foods selling turkey farms, hatchery operations to Ontario buyers
2013-07-22 16:06:36| Food - Topix.net
Maple Leaf Foods has agreed to sell its commercial turkey farms, hatchery operation and breeding farms to two Ontario-based companies.
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49-year-old Austin wins Sanderson Farms playoff
2013-07-22 07:47:16| Food - Topix.net
By SHARON COHEN AP National Writer Blue-collar workers poured into the cavernous auto plants of Detroit for generations, confident that a sturdy back and strong work ethic would bring them a house,... By SHARON COHEN AP National Writer Blue-collar workers poured into the cavernous auto plants of Detroit for generations, confident that a sturdy back ... (more)
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Wildfire warning: Heatwave death toll as high as up to 760 - and farms at risk
2013-07-18 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Farmers will be on high-alert this weekend as the heatwave threatens to unleash a wave of fires that could ruin crops across the country, a senior Met Office scientist has warned. As Britain clocked up its sixth consecutive day of plus-30C temperatures - with the thermometer peaking at 30.4C soon-to-be harvested crops such as wheat and winter barley are looking particularly vulnerable to fire, said Karl Kitchen, the Met Office scientist with responsibility for wildfires. He issued his crop-fire...
HMC Farms Hedges Against Utility Power with Massive 2.2MW Cenergy Power Solar Farm
2013-07-18 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
KINGSBURG, Calif. – HMC Farms, one of the largest grower-shipper-packer of numerous varieties of tree fruit and table grapes, has taken a huge green leap forward by moving forward with Cenergy Power on a 10 acre solar photovoltaic (PV) farm. The large 2.2 megawatt (MW) solar system will span across 390,000 square feet of ground space and will enable HMC to significantly hedge against rising electric utility charges on two cold storage and packaging meters. An additional 70 kilowatt (kW) ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of: Photovoltaic Systems & Equipment
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Backyard Farms replants entire tomato crop, will be out of markets until October
2013-07-18 00:57:18| Grocery - Topix.net
Backyard Farms, which grows 27 million pounds of tomatoes a year in its greenhouses in Madison, last week began to rip up its entire crop of half a milion tomato plants in an effort to eradicate an infestation of white flies.
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