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Agriculture News - Agriculture News Headlines | Bizjournals.comCanadian firm to buy Dakota Growers Pasta
Dakota Growers Pasta Co. Inc., a Carrington, N.D.-based pasta manufacturer with a plant in New Hope, Minn., has agreed to be acquired by a Canadian firm for about $240 million.
Beckstoffer Vineyards gives 92 acres to Napa County Land Trust
Andy Beckstoffer, a Napa Valley green pioneer who was recently elected to the Culinary Institute of America?s Vintners Hall of Fame, has given two conservation easements totaling 92 acres to the Napa County Land Trust.
Monsanto building $2.4M corn breeding station in Miss.
Monsanto said it plans to break ground Tuesday on a new $2.4 million corn breeding station in Flora, Miss. (MON)
Monsanto?s Roundup gets new Chinese competitor
Beijing-based agricultural biotech firm Origin Agritech Ltd. said Monday that it has developed a pesticide business unit for premium branded chemical products, including a glyphosate weed killer. Monsanto initially patented and sold glyphosate under the name Roundup, for which its U.S. patent expired in 2000. (MON)
Oregon nurseries sue S. Carolina
The Oregon Association of Nurseries and the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers has filed a lawsuit against the state of South Carolina.
Colorado Senate panel balks at jobs exemption to urban-renewal bill
A Colorado Senate committee did not add a broad job-creation exemption Monday to a bill that would clamp down on the types of land used in urban-renewal zones, setting up what could be a lively debate on the chamber floor.
Danforth?s Sayre to be guest on NPR?s 'Science Friday'
Dr. Richard Sayre, director of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels and principal investigator of the BioCassava Plus program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, will be a guest on a live broadcast of NPR?s ?Science Friday.?
Animal ailments spur company in search for $8 million
DURHAM ? For more than 50 years, dairy farmers have relied on a crude, manual test to determine whether their cows suffer from a common and costly infection that cuts milk production and dairy farm profits.
Bill hits use of ag land for urban projects
Urban-renewal authorities, once the redeveloper of last resort for inner-city slums and dilapidated factory sites, are being used more by local governments looking to attract manufacturers and even malls in recent years.
Bills could cut, delay Maryland estate tax for family-owned farms
The next generation of Maryland farmers may stay in business longer if legislation passes in Annapolis to eliminate or delay the payment of estate taxes.
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