Sentences with phrase «volkman seed company»

Musk seeded the company last year with $ 10 million and an idea to do for solar energy what Dell did for computers.
The proposed acquisition, valued above $ 60 billion, would make Bayer and Monsanto the world's largest integrated pesticides and seeds company.
April 9 - German conglomerate Bayer AG's $ 62.5 billion bid to acquire U.S. seeds company Monsanto Co has won approval from the U.S. Justice Department, after the companies said they would sell off additional assets, the Wall Street Journal reported https://on.wsj.com/2GKhEGh on Monday.
Bayer also said it had filed a request for approval of its planned $ 66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto with EU regulators, according to a Reuters report.
But now that a state - owned enterprise will own a leading seed company, the country's incentives reverse.
German pharmaceutical and crop chemicals manufacturer Bayer AG is also pursuing U.S. peer and world No. 1 seeds company Monsanto (mon).
The European Commission opened a full investigation into the case in August, concerned that the deal to create the world's largest integrated crop protection and seeds company may reduce competition in these sectors as well as certain petrochemicals.
The world's largest seed company signaled low corn and soybean prices are likely to persist beyond 2015 as it prepares for potentially reduced revenue by cutting expenses.
The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America's maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushels — giving a terrific boost to growers» meagre margins.
He's also an active angel investor who has helped seed companies in neuropharma, online travel, personal financial management, medical billing, technology and more.
Ritz dismisses worries about the monopolistic control the technology would transfer to transnational seed companies by saying anti-competitive behaviour could be dealt with by Canada's Competition Bureau.
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The large seed companies have missed all of this.
So, instead of going by name, a picture might be helpful (photos courtesy of the Territorial Seed Company):
The problems start at the seed companies and farms.
Andrew comments that the seed companies in England don't even mention the nutritional values of the grains intended for human consumption on the product sheets, though it is listed on the product sheets for grains intended for use as animal feed.
It is a type of pimento and was developed by a small seed company in Germany.
You can buy a bay plant from the Territorial Seed Company if you can't find one at your local nursery or farmers market.
Different markets demand different variations of the seed the company produces.
Editor's Note: Livingston's Seed Company in Columbus, Ohio, was one of the premier seed companies in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century.
But farmers are left with no compensation from private seed companies.
Please note that «Craig's Deluxe», «Craig's Little Kicker», Craig's Rough Bhut Jolokia», Dulcetta», «Trinidad Scorpion Craig's Deluxe», and «Supershamanistic» sweetgrass are Trademarks of the Redwood City Seed Company, and please also note that the Bullet is our trademark.
Hot is Good is a Service Mark owned by the Redwood City Seed Company.
Campbell's first organic tomatoes were bred from seedlings selected by Campbell's Seeds Company in Davis, California.
The event features Stuart Andrews from Natural Sequence Farming, Dr David Murray, a botanist, historian, expert in peas and beans and a foundation member of the Seed Savers Network, Martin DeLauney from a native food business, Rowena Petrie from commercial seed company Royston Petrie Seeds, which supplies Eden Seeds and The Diggers Club, herbalist Pat Collins and Colleen Oldman, who is an expert in propagating flowers.
Now, we assist government agencies and private seed companies to multiply and distribute seeds to farmers at a faster pace.»
That year, US - based TNC Monsanto Company, the largest seed company in the world, acquired Delta and Pine Land, along with the intellectual property rights to Terminator.
The association grows the Foundation Seed to produce Registered Seed, which is sold to seed companies to produce Certified Seed for farmers and the general public.
I work at a vegetable seed company in the production department.
Seed produced by seed companies is generally more reliable than home grown seed because the companies try to safeguard the genetic purity of the cultivar.
Large seed companies have their own internal process which mirrors the one used by crop improvement associations.
Unfortunately, some small seed companies and «cottage» seed industries either do not practice proper isolation techniques or buy their seed from growers who do not.
I purchased a seed collection of the 9 hottest peppers in the world from Redwood City Seed Company.
-- Jim Jim: Redwood City Seed Company is simply wrong, wrong, wrong.
And if so where I could obtain some?Bob BirksBob: There are some seed companies selling seeds they purport to be this variety, but in reality they are some other kind of Indian chile.
Sustainable Canadian seed company selling rare and unusual seeds.
Progene Seed, a young seed company in southern Italy, is making its debut at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2018 with an innovative variety: SC6002 F1 (image) is a rootstock for melon and watermelon.
This is crucial for seed companies who sell packets of seeds with a picture of a known variety on the front.
Livingston's Seed Company in Columbus, Ohio, was one of the premier seed companies in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century.
They believe he will have a better chance to save the seat than seed company owner Wayne Herriman in November.
Seed companies are trying to engineer corn that is tailored to ethanol conversion.
The seed company Pioneer Hi - Bred in Johnston, Iowa, last year commercialized a conventionally bred drought - tolerant hybrid variety, and Missouri - based Monsanto expects to commercialize a genetically engineered variety soon.
Environmentalists have long predicted that genetic tinkering with plants could cause super-weeds that might overpower the food supply, but seed companies have dismissed their concerns.
For novice gardeners, seed company W. Atlee Burpee & Co. has created a «Money Garden» seed pack that costs $ 10 and can produce $ 650 worth of easy - to - grow carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peas and peppers.
Issued last March to researchers at a little - known cotton seed company called Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the patent covers a technique for transferring three genes along with their genetic on switches into the seeds of genetically improved plants.
Also, he said, «There are a million different considerations that seed companies and farmers would have before they would start implementing this kind of new technology.»
Assuming such challenges can be met, Schulz said the dwarf corn mutant could become a transformational plant for farmers and seed companies.
In addition to showing growers and processors which hybrids could be planted at higher populations than normal, results of the study also challenge seed companies to improve CST.
The big seed companies had no interest in these poor man's crops, but I knew that science could have an impact on our lives by solving these plant problems through breeding and biotechnology.»
Without good varietal performance information breeders, multipliers, seed companies, and of course farmers do not have the information to make informed decisions.
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