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IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) Executive Director Emiliano Escobedo today announced that it has retained CRT/tanaka as the Agency of Record, after an in-depth Request for Proposal review and selection process. CRT/tanaka will work with HAB to provide strategic public relations programs as part of the Board's new marketing communications strategy for Hass Avocados, which is focused on communicating the health benefits of avocados and driving...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: AMBS), a biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury centered on its proprietary anti-apoptosis therapeutic protein MANF, today announced that President & CEO Gerald Commissiong issued a letter to shareholders as detailed below. Dear Shareholders, I thank you for the trust you have placed in our management team. We fully...
Local Farmers' Initiative Now a Reality LACASSINE, La., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The newly completed South Louisiana Rail Facility, located in the Lacassine Agri-Industrial Park, loaded their first shipment of Louisiana long grain rice bound for Mexico today, October 31, 2012. The project was the brainchild of a group of area rice farmers who banded together to form an LLC and sold $5,000 memberships to other farmers and investors who saw both the need and the...
WARSAW, N.C., Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grain sorghum is proving to be a great fit for many farmers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Acreage planted to the crop increased from 10,000 acres in 2011 to 50,000 acres in 2012 in North Carolina alone. The crop is attractive to growers because it can deliver consistent yields on marginal, sandy soils, and under drier conditions on better soils. Sorghum also delivers a number of crop rotation benefits for farmers looking...
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) has identified the top ten food trends that will be served on restaurant menus and line the supermarket shelves across the U.S. in 2013. With a breadth and depth of culinary experience, the brand strategy, innovation, and creativity firm has counseled and created foods for several of the largest food companies in the world. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
HILTON HEAD, S.C., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Addressing health and safety concerns about arsenic in food and beverages containing rice, Cera Products reports its oral rehydration products are made from rice grown in California. Rice from California is considered the purest grown in the USA. Long before Consumer Reports revealed the presence of arsenic in food and beverages made from rice, Cera Products, developers and manufacturers of high quality rehydration products,...
BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sales in the third quarter of 2012 increased by 6 percent at constant exchange rates driven by an excellent performance in Latin America. Sales in the first nine months of the year increased by 9 percent to reach a record $11 billion, with volume up 6 percent and prices up 3 percent. Third quarter regional sales Total integrated sales increased by 7 percent at constant exchange rates. In Latin America, a strong start to the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: AMBS), a biotechnology company developing new treatments for brain-related disorders including Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) centered on its unique proprietary anti-apoptotic therapeutic protein known as MANF, today announced a Translational Research Grant award from the University of Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute's Center of...
Researchers call for more research but comprehensive 12-country analysis suggests hungry region produces only 10% of possible wheat yield; could become more self-sufficient in wheat production as hedge against rising expensive imports In releasing the first ever comprehensive report on sub-Saharan Africa's economic and biological potential for producing wheat, scientists said today that the region's farmers may be growing only 10 to 25 percent of the production the research suggests is...
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rabobank has published a new report looking at the impact of the drought on the food and agriculture industry, and its ultimate implications for rising food prices. In the report, Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group says that skyrocketing agricultural commodity prices are causing the world to re-enter a period of "agflation" with food prices forecast to reach record highs in 2013, and continuing to rise well...
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The Barbel Palm (Acanthophoenix rubra) is a critically endangered species of palm native to Mauritius, Rodrigues, and La Reunion. It is also known as the Red Barbel Palm or Yellow Barbel Palm, Red Palm, Mascarene Islands Cabbage Palm and a variety of other names (French). It was first described as Areca rubra by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1804. It was put into its own genus by German botanist Hermann Wendland in 1867. The Barbel Palm can reach a height of...
The Asian Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabellifer, is a plant in the Borassus genus. Other names for the tree are the toddy palm, sugar palm, and Cambodian palm. It is a vigorous tree, living 100 years or more. It is held aloft at 98 feet high on a large, sturdy trunk that resembles a coconut, and is ringed with leaf scars. The leaves create a canopy of several dozen fronds spreading across 10 feet. Growth of these trees is slow in the beginning, but speeds up as it begins to mature. It is...
The African Fan Palm, Borassus aethiopium is an African palm of the Borassus genus. It has a numerous list of English terms for the plant including African palmyra palm, deleb palm, ron palm, toddy palm, black rhun palm, ronier palm (French term), and others. Its African names are even more numerous. The tree offers many practical uses such as edible fruit, fiber from leaves, and termite-proof wood for construction. At least two varieties of this species exist, bagamojensis and...
The four species of wild rice comprise the genus Zizania, a group of grasses that grow in shallow water in small lakes and slow-flowing streams. Often, only the flowering head rises above the water. Three of the four species are native to North America: Northern wild rice (Zizania palustris) is an annual plant native to the Great Lakes region of North America. Wild rice (Z. aquatica), also an annual, grows in the Saint Lawrence River and on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United...
