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Can we engineer insect-free crops?

Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

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Can we engineer insect-free crops?

The promise of bio-engineering and genetically-modified crops is that we'll get better yields, more food or cotton for us, less for our six-legged opponents. Now comes research that insect evolve more quickly than expected and may rapidly overcome any pest-repelling chemicals in our genetically modified plants. Evolutionary escalation...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Life or death struggle in the Senate

This week the 100 members of the U.S. Senate, their staffs and legions of lobbyists swing into action on the Waxman-Markey bill. Not since the stimulus bill promised a cash payment to millions of Americans has there been a proposed law with such far-reaching ramifications. Energy supply. ...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Agribusiness Group Enhances Collaboration, Reduces Costs With Communications Solution

With offices in over 90 countries, smooth real-time communication and team collaboration are crucial to the Syngenta agribusiness group. The company upgraded its communication and desktop infrastructure by installing Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, on 20,000 computers. Employees now communicate more effectively...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Office Suites

Case studies 2009-07-01

Greenpeace: running may be good for you, hurting the Earth

Luxury product, big American retailers, greedy developing national leaders, resource exploitation. You can almost write the script. This time it's not soybeans or mahogany or mining. It's leather for running shoes from Nike, Adidas and their ilk. Greenpeace says consumers buying leather shoes from major manufacturers...

Tags: Brazil, Greenpeace, Nike Inc., Adidas AG, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Environmental groups dump on "global warming" bill

A gang of environmental groups are calling the current proposed energy and security act a sham, another government giveaway. The bill has just passed out of the House Committee where debate was held. Here's the crux of some environmnentalists' complaint: "As passed through the Energy and...

Tags: U.S., Permit, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, Global Warming, Cap And Trade, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Who are the real swine here?

Pro-agribusiness media are scrambling to keep the flu story from tainting factory farms. The runoff, effluent, off-gassing and general environmental degradation from this kind of industrial production of pork or chicken or turkey or beef is supposed by the businesses involved to carry no burden for dealing with the...

Tags: U.S., Virus, Concentration Camp, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Will greentech investors discover food?

The first known death in the U.S. from the current round of infulenza has been reported. This swine flu bruhaha adds ammunition to arguments of those who favor more humane farming methods. The poor pigs may be getting a bad rap on "swine flu." There's no evidence...

Tags: Food, Investor, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.

Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.typical responseHow about the fuel needed to harvest the corn, fertilize, transport and impact on wild life.Corn for ethanol is a scam!Now, if this had been an oil exectalking about the abundance of oil, advancing technologies in drilling and refining oil, etc. You'd be all...

Tags: carbon dioxide, Ethanol, ethanol, corn

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

National Bank Boosts Staff Training With Online Collaboration Solution

Based in Melbourne, the National Australia Bank NAB has more than 25,000 employees working in 800 branches, 180 business banking centers, 110 regional agribusiness locations, and three major contact centers. NAB needed a collaboration infrastructure to support a new self-directed, employee development initiative called The Academy that would provide social...

Tags: Bank, Online Collaboration, National Australia Bank, Training, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

Gross conclusions come from gross statistics

Gross conclusions come from gross statisticsLet's try this on for "size".Mechanics who use only metric tools are better than mechanics who don't because the metric mechanic's cars last longer than the non-metric mechanics cars.Chicken is better than red meat? Maybe if the chicken is organically grown by a farmer...

Tags: Test Strip, diabetes, A1C, Type 2 diabete

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

California becomes official dry state

No, they haven't banned wine and beer. But they're close to shutting down water taps in the Golden State, now turned a dusty tan. Today's California's governor officially declared a statewide emergency due to a three-year drought. He has asked urban water districts for conservation measures and...

Tags: California, Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Leading Agribusiness Cuts Costs by 50 Per Cent With Communications Technologies

Leading agribusiness Syngenta needed to refresh its internal Web communications. Its virtual conferencing systems were too slow and did not accommodate a sufficient number of attendees in meetings. As part of the Infrastructure Consolidation Program it developed with long-term technology partner HP, the company also wanted to integrate its software...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Online Communications, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2008-09-01

Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.

Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.Good NewsAll of this is good news.The US Government bet correctly on the value of ethanol and helped jump-start the market in the US just in time. Now the market is piggy-backing on that infrastructure and moving on to...

Tags: Mooooo, corn field, Ethanol

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.

Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...

Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Energy and food becoming global battlegrounds while high profile VC becomes lightning rod

Energy. Food. Money. The nexus is fraught with political disagreement, high intensity accuations and lots of potential for profit, or disaster. All depends on who you listen to. If the era of cheap petroleum is truly and forever dead, then these battles shall only get more nasty,...

Tags: Brazil, Food, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

HandAgro 1.0 (Mobile)

Suite of 16 tools for Palm to manage your agribusiness. Tools included: expenses, implements, trips, consumers, payments, suppliers, employees, financing, planning, collections, reports, seed and others, purchases, exportation, transport, weather and invoicing. For big companies it serves as a mobile and modern complement of operations

Tags: Mobile, Tool, HANDCASE, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-12

Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe

I blogged recently about criticism of ethanol and other biofuels in some parts of the world. A meeting of over 180 national finance ministers with World Bank officials just gave the whole issue of food or fuel a much higher profile. Political problems caused by hungry...

Tags: Food, Biofuel, World Bank, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...

Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Driscoll's Berries Picks Perfect Mobile Solution for Distribution, Account Reconciliation

Watsonville, California -based Driscoll Strawberry Associates needed to streamline its distribution operations and improve the accuracy of its account reconciliation system. Driscoll turned to Redline Solutions, a systems integrator specializing in automating data collection for agribusiness clients. Redline recommended a mobile systems solution that would be integrated into Driscoll's existing...

Tags: Mobile, Handheld, Corporate Transaction, Driscoll, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Marketing

Case studies 2008-01-01