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Farm working capital: Use it or save it?
2015-06-11 21:26:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: University of Illinois Lower commodity prices are now projected for the foreseeable future. Those price levels coupled with high costs lead to projections of low or negative cash flows for the next several years. These low return levels will cause negative cash flows on many farms. Farmers then may choose to use working capital in meeting these cash shortfalls, leading to reductions in working capital. read more
Amazon to Build Largest Solar Farm in Virginia in Move to Clean the Cloud
2015-06-11 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If you go to Amazon.com to shop for solar panels, your purchase is going to get greener. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the worlds largest online retailer and provider of cloud computing services, announced this week that it will partner with Community Energy Inc. to build an 80 megawatt solar farm in Accomack County on the eastern shore of Virginia. It will be the largest solar farm in the state and will quintuple the amount of solar currently being generated there. It is projected to deliver about...
May's top stories: Vertical farm tackles food scarcity, ConAgra fined over salmonella contamination
2015-06-11 11:43:00| Food Processing Technology
Spanish design company Forward Thinking Architecture has developed a new solar-powered vertical farm concept to tackle future difficulties in food supply, while ConAgra Foods' subsidiary has agreed to pay a fine of $11.2m over salmonella poisoning. F
Farm family grows modified corn for pharmaceutical purposes
2015-06-10 22:57:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Bill Horan grows recombinant pharmaceutical proteins in crops using sunlight, soil, water, and air as raw materials. This family farm has grown modified corn, tobacco, rice and potatoes that produce medically valuable drugs and enzymes. The high-profit, highly regulated farm enterprise diversifies them from low-margin commodity crops. (They also grow commodity corn.) So, three of us make a living from about 4,000 acres of corn, Bill Horan says. read more
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Rollover Kills Crane Operator Heading to Wind Farm Site
2015-06-10 22:10:37| ENR.com: Headline News
Rough terrain and a growing number of wind farms pose new hazards to construction site staff.
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