Farm Compliance

Bayer CropScience Announces Scholarship

Written by Farm Compliance
Friday, 08 July 2011
Bayer CropScience awards a full scholarship including tuition and travel costs for participation in the 2011 European Plant Breeding AcademySM. The Academy offers a maximum of 20 participants a professional development course in advanced plant breeding designed and managed by the Seed Biotechnology Center at University of California, Davis, California (UC Davis).
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Michael A. Schulz is new Member of the Bayer CropScience AG Board of Management

Written by AGscape
Friday, 08 July 2011
Michael A. Schulz (46) was appointed as Member of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG effective June 1, 2011 and as the company's Head of Business Planning & Administration effective July 1, 2011. He succeeds Dr. Dirk Suwelack (61), who will enter retirement at the end of 2011.
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Corporate Hog Farm and President Plead Guilty to Violating the Clean Water Act

Written by Farm Compliance
Thursday, 07 July 2011
Washington, DC - Freedman Farms, Inc. and its president, William B. Freedman, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in New Bern, N.C., to violating the Clean Water Act when they discharged hog waste into a stream that leads to the Waccamaw River, the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced today.
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Converted Organics Announces New TerraSphere Licensee, Eco-Leaf Farms

Written by Farm Compliance
Wednesday, 06 July 2011
Converted Organics Inc. announced today that TerraSphere Systems, LLC continues to build momentum with its vertical farming business by signing a new licensee for the Atlantic Provinces (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador).
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Stevia Approved as a Sweetener in European Union by Key Committee

Written by Farm Compliance
Wednesday, 06 July 2011
GLG Life Tech Corporation, the vertically-integrated leader in the agricultural and commercial development of high quality stevia and all natural and zero calorie food and beverage products, acknowledges and welcomes the approval of stevia as a zero calorie sweetener in the European market.
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