The ash clouds from Iceland’s volcano slowed down the pace of trade and had a significant impact on business supply chains, with revenues lost and costs mounting for storing unshipped products. Clearly the volcano has the potential to severely disrupt the global economy. How can companies prepare themselves for the worst case scenario and minimise the damage? …
The Center for Family Business at the University of New Hampshire recently named grower Pleasant View Gardens of Loudon, N.H., as the 2010 Family Business of the Year. …
Some cut flowers and potted plants are better than others at fending off the aging process, known as senescence. To help tomorrow’s blooms stay fresh longer, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Cai-Zhong Jiang is investigating the gene-controlled mechanisms of plants’ aging. Such probing may eventually reveal how to modify flowers’ aging-linked genes, or the proteins that are products of those genes. …
The pilot plant allows operational and technical teams to develop new products and to evaluate new meat-producing technologies that could potentially be employed at the company’s full-size plants throughout the U.S. and Canada. …
Interest in buying locally produced food has helped butchers’ business as consumers who want to know more about the steaks or chops they eat crowd counters at shops nationwide. …
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