Agriculture Can Speed or Slow Climate Change, Groups Say From ClimateBiz In this webinar, discover new technologies that raise your organization's competitive advantage while cutting CO2, learn the results of a global survey on the impact of green action on corporate brands, and hear inspiring carbon reduction success stories. In the article, the authors find that soils treated with organic compost materials can absorb and sequester carbon better than soils that are farmed with conventional fertilizers, which serve to deplete and release carbon from the soil.

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Agriculture Advocate From Missouri Ruralist Chris Chinn, a farmer from Clarence, was appointed last week by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to serve on a newly-formed Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Advisory Committee. At a time when there is less and less understanding by the public and even governmental agencies of today's agriculture, we need people involved like Chris who has proven herself to be both articulate and knowledgeable," says Charles Kruse, president of Missouri Farm Bureau.

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Wheat Breaches $12 for First Time After Biggest Gain Since 2002 From Bloomberg Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Chicago wheat prices rose by the most in more than five years, breaching $12 a bushel for the first time as investors poured money into agricultural commodities on signs that global crop production isn't keeping pace with demand. Wheat for May delivery rose by the daily limit of 90 cents, or 8 percent, to $12.145 a bushel in after-hours trading on the Chicago Board of Trade, the biggest one-day percentage gain since October 2002. Goodman Fielder Ltd., Australia's...

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Infosys to develop IT-enabled application for agriculture From www.indiaenews.com/ Software major Infosys Technologies Ltd has partnered with ACDI/VOCA, a non-profit international development organisation, to develop an information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled application to improve the agro supply chain in India. This solution gives the organised retail sector access to a reliable small holder production base.' According to an estimate, there are over 17,000 farmers currently integrated into organised retail supply chains through this application.

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Group Says It Has Mapped Corn Genome From The Associated Press LOUIS (AP) Scientists at universities and corporations are about to get a major leg up in their tireless and profitable effort to reinvent the corn plant. A group of researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis have mapped out the corn plant's massive genome, and is posting the research on the Internet. There is still some clean-up work left to be done to the corn genome sequence, though it is essentially completed, said Richard Wilson, director of Washington University's Genome...

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