Renessen LLC, a biotechnology company, has announced plans for a pilot plant to test a unique technology system in which new biotech corn hybrids with increased energy and nutrient levels will be combined with a novel dry corn separation technique designed for ethanol facilities.
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February 1-2, 2006 – Ramkota Hotel, Sioux Falls, SD
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Guess who is in the crosshairs of Wal-Mart’s future strategic plan. Yes, banks and possibly the Farm Credit System. Currently the FDIC is reviewing Wal-Mart’s application for a bank charter. Why would Wal-Mart want to enter banking and possibly become an agricultural lender?
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Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and operators.
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We are pleased to announce our January 2007 incentive travel destination… Panama!
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University of Missouri Integrated Pest Management Newsletter

US Drought Monitor Update

If soybean aphids continue their annual alternating high and low population cycles, Ohio soybean growers could see very few of the insects this growing season.
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OMAHA (DTN)—A preliminary decision by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the U.S. challenge of the European Union (EU) moratorium on approvals for crops derived from biotechnology is expected around February 1, a U.S. trade official said, according to the Washington File, a usinfo.state.gov release.
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