DuPont forecasts 2010 growth with focus on agriculture and advanced technology
DuPont sees 2010 rebound; pushes overseas sales Oklahoma State University experts discuss potential of sweet sorghum use in ethanol productionCHICKASHA, Okla. — With demand growing for ethanol produced from sources other than corn, researchers at Oklahoma State University said Wednesday that state agriculture producers could someday grow sweet sorghum or switchgrass as cash crops. Robert Gates calls Nobel laureate Borlaug a ‘warrior against hunger’ at memorial ceremonyCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who “built armies of agricultural workers” to combat famine in the world’s developing countries. Gates calls Nobel laureate Borlaug a ‘warrior against hunger’ at memorial ceremonyCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who “built armies of agricultural workers” to combat famine in the world’s developing countries. Sugar beet debate leaves farmers waiting as Colo.’s Boulder County reconsiders biotech cropsBOULDER, Colo. — Famuer Rasmussen Jr. and five other farmers filed what they thought was a routine request to grow genetically modified sugar beets on public land in Colorado’s Boulder County. The county already had allowed genetically altered corn. Norman Borlaug, who developed crops that helped save millions from world hunger, died at 95DALLAS — Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the ‘green revolution,’ dies at age 95DALLAS — Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution” who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95. |
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