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DuPont enters into agreement with Rosetta Green

DuPont enters into agreement with Rosetta Green E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has entered into a strategic research agreement with Israel-based Rosetta Green Ltd. to identify drought tolerance genes in corn and soybeans.…
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Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll releases summary report

The 2011 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll was completed during January and February 2011 by 1,276 Iowa farmers.

The 2011 Farm Poll survey focused on a range of issues, including climate change and conservation …

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Kemin designing new research facility

Kemin Industries Inc. is taking a similar approach in the design of its new research facility, which is now more than midway through the design process.

“The overall theme is really openness and flexibility,” said …

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Pioneer’s new research facility

A little more than a year ago, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. was harvesting test crops on a plot of land alongside Beaver Creek in Johnston. This fall, however, the land near the company’s headquarters is …

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Designing the research spaces of the future

Global demand for increased food production and enhanced nutrition technologies are driving growth for Greater Des Moines-based biotechnology companies, and with it, the need for state-of-the-art research and development facilities.

In Johnston, Pioneer Hi-Bred International …

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Farm Bureau hosting labor regs seminar

Farm Bureau hosting labor regs seminar The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation will have a webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. Dec. 12 about recent changes and proposed changes in labor regulations. To view the program,…
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$1.2 million for Iowa farmland ends a family tradition

It took just 31 minutes for Donald Ellingson’s family to end an agrarian tradition that had survived more than a half-century, by auctioning off 153 acres of rich Iowa farmland, according to a Reuters special …

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DuPont and Israeli company to battle soybean rust

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and Israel-based Evogene Ltd. said today they would collaborate to improve resistance to soybean rust. Under the agreement, DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. subsidiary and Evogene will work …

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Sugar reform could be a sweet deal

Sugar reform could be a sweet deal   An Iowa State University research study asserts that reforming federal sugar subsidies could save American consumers up to $3.5 billion and generate 20,000 net jobs each year.…
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Ag Processing to pay civil penalty for EPA violations

Ag Processing Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative, has agreed to pay a $96,588 civil penalty to the federal government for its failure to develop and implement a facility response plan for its soybean processing facility in …