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Citrus disease raises alarm
For La Cañada homeowners used to enjoying backyard-grown oranges and lemons, news of a citrus disease’s recent appearance in Hacienda Heights is raising an alarm. The disease, called huanglongbing, or citrus greening, is an incurable bacterial...
Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, Health, Symptoms
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Mother Nature is her lab partner
The vehicle for all of life’s variety and complexity has found a new driver in La Cañada’s Frances Arnold. In her laboratories at Caltech, Arnold is harnessing the evolutionary process to create new proteins and enzymes that have the...
Tags: Agriculture, Material Science, Environmental Issues, Chemical Industry, Alternative Energy
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2010 in review
The year 2010 was one of watchful anticipation in La Cañada Flintridge: City officials were on alert during periods of rainfall, keenly aware of the threat of debris flows in the wake of the 2009 Station fire that charred the Angeles National Forest,...Tags: Amgen Inc., Management Change, Public Employees, Science and Technology, Wildfires
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Bruning, Nebraska, school boosts ag education in farm country
BRUNING, Neb. (AP) - The hallway leading into Siera Meyer's classroom at the high school here is covered with posters depicting different aspects of agronomy and animal anatomy. The posters represent the work that the seven Bruning-Davenport students...Tags: Physiology, Agriculture, Teachers, Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Boca Raton businesses make 'top 50' ranking of women-owned firms
Two women who are business owners in Boca Raton have never met, but would likely have a lot to talk about over lunch. Terry Lehmann and Barbara Levine both founded successful businesses that were named in May to a "Top 50" list of flourishing women-owned...Tags: Agriculture, Business, American Express Company, Justice System, Insurance
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Use gypsum to build soils and buffer weather
Chicago - Ohio farmer Les Seiler has applied gypsum to his fields for the past five years. His farm is based in Fulton County, Ohio, 40 miles west of Toledo and near the Michigan border where Seiler says cold and wet spring weather is “guaranteed.”...Tags: Agriculture, Natural Disasters, Energy Resources, Environmental Issues, Weather
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Local student to serve on national team
BROOKINGS - South Dakota State University Agronomy major, Michael Carlson has been selected as a 2013-2014 Agriculture Future of America Student Advisory Team member. Carlson and the other eight team members represent their peers on a national level and...Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, South Dakota State University, Students, Consumer Goods Industries
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Growers should plan ahead for energy beet production
Farmers considering energy beet production in the future should assess what herbicides they use during this growing season due to potential residue impact. “Many growers across North Dakota are looking hard at a new industrial crop called energy beets,...Tags: Science and Technology, Syngenta AG, Agriculture, Energy Saving, Beets
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Nebraska lawmakers advance climate change study
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers gave first round approval Tuesday to a measure that would launch a state review of climate change. Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the proposal by Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm after a handful of lawmakers denounced...Tags: Agriculture, Government, Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, Droughts
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SDSU Extension offers variety of services to answer horticulture & tree questions
BROOKINGS - Spring may be behind schedule this year, but when it does arrive SDSU Extension is ready, says Rosie Nold, Ag & Natural Resources Program Director. "Like all services SDSU Extension provides, when it comes to horticulture we have many...Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, Conservation, Natural Resource Industry, Botany
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Cattle grazing can promote cheatgrass dominance, study finds
Ranchers often argue that cattle grazing is the best way to combat cheatgrass, an aggressive invader that has taken over vast areas of the Great Basin, destroying the native sagebrush ecosystem and fueling huge wildfires. But a study published today...
Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, Conservation, Environmental Issues, U.S. Geological Survey
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Forest Service Dedicating New Lab in Juneau
Channel 2 NewsThe U.S. Forest Service is dedicating its new forestry sciences laboratory in Juneau this weekend. Saturday's ceremony will included free guided tours and the raising of carved house posts. The Forest Service, in a release, says the 12,000-square-foot...Tags: Science and Technology, Agriculture, Natural Resource Industry, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues
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