Sentences with phrase «seed companies»

I work at a vegetable seed company in the production department.

This is crucial for seed companies who sell packets of seeds with a picture of a known variety on the front.

In the western world most farmers buy their seed from seed companies that produce hybrid seeds the grow into plants with reliable characteristics.

The large seed companies have missed all of this.

But farmers are left with no compensation from private seed companies.

Many seed companies carry the seeds — see the link above.

In return, says the panel, developing countries should respect the intellectual property rights of seed companies, most of which are in the developed world.

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.

The company works with several seed companies to test seed by starting with small plot trials, which are small plots where several varieties of seed are initially grown.

The internet is another resource for learning more, and a few seed companies are now posting seed saving info on their websites.

They are a Start to Seed company which means that you can trace the lots of oils back to the very fields they were grown on, therefore their production process as well.

Large seed companies have their own internal process which mirrors the one used by crop improvement associations.

There are more than 60 varieties of basil available from seed companies and specialty stores, including lemon basil and cinnamon basil.

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.

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.

Seed companies say this renaissance has rescued their vegetable business after years of drooping sales.

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.

The company has a solid R&D platform, a robust pipeline of products, and a successful commercialization strategy that has secured licensing or co-development agreements with many major multinational seed companies such as Bayer Cropscience, RiceTec, DBN, Biocentury Transgene and Mahyco.

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.»

10 Best Heirloom Seed Companies as Selected By Readers.

Home gardeners should either question small seed companies about their isolation techniques, or confine seed purchases to the major companies.

June seeded the company with the proceeds from DJ «ing and funding from friends.

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.

But now that a state - owned enterprise will own a leading seed company, the country's incentives reverse.

New diets are pushing agricultural research into faddish directions, such as the improbable low - carb potato from researchers at the University of Florida and the Dutch seed company HZPC.

The protesters say foreign seed companies are «gene thieves», capitalising on locally bred crops at the expense of the farmers who have produced them.

With the advent of GM crops, however, even scientists working in public land grant institutions, whose extension services have long provided farmers with independent analyses, found their research ultimately subject to seed company approval.

Tiny Treats Volkman Seed Company manufactures bird products under the Featherglow and Avian Science Super Diet brand names, with Featherglow being the company's premium line.

If allowed to continue unchecked, the farms of the future will be extensions of the GM seed companies, and that really means Monsanto, and they will control the prices and production of a vital commodity....

There is massive concentration of ownership (two seed companies control 60 % of the market, four companies control 83 % of the meat packing industry) so that farmers have little control over the prices they sell their products for.

Musk seeded the company last year with $ 10 million and an idea to do for solar energy what Dell did for computers.

Arena managing partner Paige Craig sent out a private letter to LPs laying out concerns about the seed market — overvalued seed companies, excessive capital supply, and imbalanced market forces.

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.

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.

Additionally, Dairyland Seed Company, a major alfalfa seed producer and exporter, reported contamination of 11 - 16 sites at distances of up to 1 1/2 miles — far beyond the recommended 900 foot isolation distances.

The site is designed to be used by organic farmers and growers to find organic seed, certification bodies to help authorize derogations and seed companies looking to sell certified organic seed.

Thanks for reply.Nanda Hello Nanda: Many seed companies carry the seeds — see the link above.

After exploring new seed varieties from international seed companies to little avail, landraces from diverse sources within Cuba were investigated.

They believe he will have a better chance to save the seat than seed company owner Wayne Herriman in November.

Organic seed company Fruition Seeds in Naples, New York, has taken a carrot population Luby and colleagues put into the commons and begun breeding it to create a sexually reproducing variety, Luby says.