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Hog Outlook: Breeding Herd Expected to Rise in March Hogs & Pigs Report
2013-03-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The average retail price of pork in grocery stores during February was $3.441 per pound. That is up 3.9 cents from January, but down 5.4 cents from February 2012. The monthly retail price record for pork is $3.561/pound set in September 2011, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown.
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Peach genome offers insights into breeding strategies for biofuels crops
2013-03-24 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate "biofuel crops" from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted. Domesticating these as crops requires a deep understanding of the physiology and genetics of trees, and scientists are turning to long-domesticated fruit trees for hints. The relationship between a peach and a poplar may not be obvious at first glance, but to botanists both trees are part of the rosid superfamily,...
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First Chinese Litters Allow Further Expansion of JSR’s Global Breeding Programme
2013-03-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - JSR’s global breeding programme has seen its first litters born in China, signalling the spread of the company’s genetics into the most important market in the world.
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Breeding success of British cod stock is in jeopardy
2013-03-03 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sea surface temperatures are coldest at this time of year as cod are spawning in the Channel and southern North Sea. This is the southerly point of this hunted fish, and there is a lot of research into how long cod can remain in the current breeding grounds as the climate warms. Cod has been exploited for 2000 years, and until the invention of sonars, the stock was thought to be inexhaustible. However, fishermen have long known that the cod's range and numbers changed with temperature. In the...
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Export Interest In U.S. Breeding Cattle Has Skyrocketed
2013-02-27 23:11:00| Beef
Weve seen an increase in live cattle exports assembled and quarantined in Kansas for export to Russia, says Kimberly Kirkham, DVM, Kansas Area Veterinarian in Charge for USDAs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services. These exports have joined the ranks of and currently exceed those to Canada and Mexico." read more
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