- A recent International Food Information Council (IFIC) report concludes that 84% of Americans have favorable or neutral impressions of agricultural plant biotechnology, while less than 16% hold an unfavorable impression. Click here for more information.
- Novus International is proud to announce the appointment of Duarte Diaz, Ph.D. as Ruminant Research Manager. Dr. Diaz will be responsible for managing ruminant research and will serve as technical lead for Novus’s mycotoxin management programs across species.
- ACH Food Companies, Inc. (ACH), announce the creation, with immediate effect, of Stratas Foods, LLC, a joint venture for the manufacture, marketing and distribution of packaged oil products in the U.S. and Canada. Stratas Foods will serve the foodservice, specialty food ingredient and retail private label bottled oil markets. It is expected to produce 2.5 billion pounds of oil in its first full year of operation.
- Syngenta announced that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta’s innovation would reduce planting costs per hectare by some 15%, driven by a novel approach to grow sugar cane from smaller cane segments using proprietary treatments. The technology is planned for launch in 2010 under the brand name Plene and has a market potential of $300 million per year by 2015.
