Del Monte standing in the way of $245 million in new development: falls, North Tonawanda projects on hold as Albany frets.
The biggest obstacle standing between 150 new, high-paying jobs and the City of Niagara Falls can't be found on Pine Avenue or Main Street, not in LaSalle or even DeVeaux. It can only be found, and can only make sense, in the mind of state Rep. Francine Del Monte,...

Grain harvest sets record, but supplies still tight.
After several years of decline, the world's grain output reached a record 2.316 billion tons in 2007, a 4-percent increase over the previous year. Yields rose 95 million tons in response to near-perfect weather in major growing areas and an estimated 5-percent jump in world fertilizer use. However, commodity...

Not all biofuels are equal.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Ian Hill For The Register-Guard In response to recent articles claiming that the use of biofuel leads to increases in greenhouse gas emissions: Not all biofuels are created equal. The biodiesel and ethanol sold through our SeQuential retail station in Eugene is some...

The pharmacy's upstream.
Byline: The Register-Guard The waterways of 10 American cities couldn't pass a drug test, researchers at Oregon State University have found. Traces of methamphetamine, cocaine and other illicit drugs turned up in water samples taken from municipal wastewater treatment plants. The finding attracted wide attention and could...

Big increase in GM Bt corn hectarage helped raise domestic sufficiency.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA A hefty leap in the growing of genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn by more than 100 percent to 200,000 hectares in 2006 is contributing to the Philippines' achieving a significant level of corn sufficiency. The International Service for the Acquisition...

142-yr-old Cargill reinvents itself under a new CEO.
Byline: PETER BOHAN WAYZATA, Minn., June 3 (Reuters) -- For students of Cargill Inc., the world's most powerful agribusiness and commodity trading group, the change in leadership now taking place might seem like business as usual. But there's not much that's "usual" about Cargill, a...

Wilco store coming to Springfield.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Wilco, a "farm lifestyle" retailer with nine stores throughout Western Oregon and Washington, will add a 10th location early next year in a sprawling building off Olympic Street that has lain fallow since Kmart left town 4 1/2 years ago....

20 M farmers to plant Bt crops by 2015.
More than 20 million farmers are expected to plant 200 million hectares of biotechnology crops in about 40 countries by 2015, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) revealed. In its 2006 annual report, ISAAA chairman and founder Clive James said the fearless forecast...

Influence of sulfur on fresh cassava foliage and cassava hay incubated in rumen fluid of beef cattle.
ABSTRACT : Two male, rumen fistulated crossbred Brahman-Thai native beef cattle (body weight = 400 [+ or -] 50 kg), fed on rice straw as a source of roughage, were used as rumen fluid sources. The treatments were 2 x 3 factorial arrangements; two roughages (fresh cassava foliage and...

DoST discusses full potential of biotechnology in Mindanao.
Byline: MADEL R. SABATER ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte -- Academic and research institutions here in Mindanao are strengthening collaborations with the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) and other institutions to explore the full potential of biotechnology in this part of the country to generate more...