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June 28, 2012

Daily Digest 28/06/12: Cargill, Monsanto; disease resistant barley

Hello,

The Global Miller is back!  Yesterday I visited a few milling companies in the UK and learnt a great deal about the repair and maintenance side of the industry.

Here's the news...
  • Cargill plans to build a feed facility in Bovina, Texas.  Read more...
  • New Farm-o-San website for Trouw Nutrition.  Read more...
  • Earlier in the month, we linked to a story about Brazilian farmers taking on Monsanto over rights to soya royalties.  This article published in Nature expands on the subject and is a fascinating read. 
  • Scottish scientists have made a break-through in creating disease resistant barley.  The new discovery enables barley seed to inherit disease protection characteristics from its parent plant.  Read more...

What do you think...


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English: soya in urdu
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