Commerce and Agriculture

If you feel that technology is passing you by and you can’t even work digital TV never mind a Smart TV then you better shape up or ship out. There’s no room for dinosaurs on this trip. Coming soon to a major appliance store near you will be the next piece of household equipment designed to show that you are indeed an idiot. Late last year in the States Samsung released its LCD refrigerator with apps, a beastly fridge available in 28- or 30...  

Tovatech, a distributor of laboratory equipment to Mexico, Canada and the US, has launched a new line of ultra-low temperature freezers, which is extremely useful for clinical lab staff while performing beta tests. The Nor-Lake Select series of ...  

KITTANNING, Pa. — State police say a pair of amorous bovines tied up traffic near the intersection of two rural Pennsylvania highways. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette first reported the situation Friday morning. Trooper John Corna tells The Associated Press ...  

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is advising consumers to avoid a specific whipping-cream product after routine sampling found that it hadn't been properly pasteurized. The product is Blackstar Dairy heavy whipping cream that has ...  

The Crest Company has been awarded the naming rights for the 2012 Agriculture August show that will be held in Lautoka. A government statement yesterday said the announcement made by the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Colonel Mason Smith said the ...  

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A former long-time equipment manager for the St. Louis Rams is suing the team for his 2011 firing, claiming age discrimination. Todd Hewitt claims he was among a batch of employees over age 50 who were fired or forced into retirement ...  

Today Power Equipment Direct announced it is hard at work expanding its online product offering with the inclusion of SpeeCo log splitters. "For more than 50 years, SpeeCo has been producing high-quality farm equipment such as log splitters," said Mike ...  

Texada Software Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TXS), a versatile, multi-segmented business operation encompassing construction and industrial equipment rental, construction and industrial equipment sales and enterprise asset management software, today announced its ...  

George Koepp was recently announced official Agriculture Agent for the Columbia County UW-Extension. Koepp grew up on a dairy, beef, hog, grain, and forage crops farm on the western side of Columbia County. He served as the Baraboo High School ...  

SAD though it may be, it is far from surprising. As reported by this newspaper yesterday, the latest but as yet unpublished agriculture census finds that up to 80 per cent of the people in the country’s farming sector own just 28 per cent of ...  

DENVER—A former chief of staff for Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar has been named deputy agriculture commissioner. Ronnie Carleton, of Fort Collins, was Salazar's chief of staff when Salazar was in Congress. Carleton helped ...  

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE), the board is mulling a probe into the merit list of agriculture stream for the class XII. The probe will be held after the declaration of board's class X results. The MPBSE ...  

Last July, Iowa-based Kinze Manufacturing gathered its dealers to debut a new on-farm toy: a John Deere tractor pulling a grain cart. The scene might have been unremarkable—dealers have seen the cart in action countless times—except that ...  

RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's economy grew at its slowest pace in more than two years in the first quarter as weak industrial production and a drought-wracked agricultural sector undermined growth in Latin America's largest economy.  

LONG BRANCH, N.J., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bamboozle Festival is a three-day oceanfront festival in Asbury Park, NJ offering the best in mainstream pop, rock, metal and comedy. Acts such as Skrillex, Foo Fighters and Bon Jovi ...