SHANGHAI - On November 6 to 8 2007, the top management of CNH International Operations, a world leader in the agricultural equipment business part of the Fiat Group, holds an export seminar with all its Sales & Marketing team from Asia, Africa, Middle East, CIS, Australia and New Zealand in its Shanghai New Holland plant. New Holland is a brand of CNH. The export seminar, aimed to train the Sales force on the features and benefits as well as on new markets opportunities of the new TL5000 tractor range, is a further proof of the ongoing CNH commitment into Chinese and new markets.
Industrial-scale fisheries have changed fish evolution, exacerbating the effect of overfishing by producing smaller and less fertile fish, scientists say.
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) - Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, the team describes how this readily available waste material can be used to extract toxic copper ions from waste water. The discovery offers a useful alternative to simple disposal of this ubiquitous food industry waste product.
Newswise - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) will make three presentations in New Orleans on Monday Nov. 5 as part of the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The presentations include the roll-out of two new CAST Commentaries on biofuel byproducts and ethanol production and a presentation outlining CAST's resources for gathering, compiling, and communicating the latest science-based information on agricultural issues.
Industrial-scale fisheries have changed fish evolution, exacerbating the effect of overfishing by producing smaller and less fertile fish, scientists say.