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Facebook informs, organizes flood victims

As the southwest Iowa town of Hamburg braces for a flood expected to cause major damage there, residents are turning to Facebook to find — and offer — help.
My husband grew up in Hamburg, my mother-in-law still lives just east of town (away from the flood threat), and we spend a lot of time there. [...]

Weather forecast favorable for soy harvest

The soybean harvest in the United States is off to a slow start this year. Probably unknown to most is the fact that our five percent completion pace as of this past Sunday was the fourth slowest since 1987, with only 1993, 1996, and 2009 being years with less harvested by September 25.
We are going [...]

China Modern Agricultural Information Becomes Official Supplier of SuihuaDongxing Dairy Products Worth an Estimated USD$1.65MM in Gross Revenues

HARBIN, China, Jun 27, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — China Modern Agriculture Inc. /quotes/zigman/4669974 CMCI -1.79% , a high-tech livestock company specializing in the breeding of cows and calves, the production and sale of milk, the sale of organic fertilizer, as well as the promotion of agricultural information, announced that it has become the official [...]

A Club for RP-Taiwan Sisterhood in Agriculture

Our Friend Toto Barcelona of Harbest Agribusiness has a bright idea. He said that if Philippine cities have sister-cities in other countries, why not sisterhood between farmer groups, from the Philippines and other countries? He has particularly in mind a sisterhood (or brotherhood?) of groups interested in agriculture from the Philippines and Taiwan.
The idea all [...]

2010 Year-End Food And Agri Business Conference

The Center for Food and Agri Business (CFA) of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) will be having its 2010  YEAR-END FOOD AND AGRI BUSINESS CONFERENCE with the theme ” Philippine Food and Agriculture: What’s New and What’s Next?” This will be held on December 7, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. [...]