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Beef Demand Remains Surprisingly Strong Despite High Retail Prices
2013-05-24 14:37:39| Beef
As retail prices grow with decreasing supplies, consumers receive less value for their beef purchase unless benefits continue to increase. Cattle Economics read more
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Open source development surges for Android and, surprisingly, iOS
2013-05-23 22:07:20| InfoWorld: Top News
Open source developers launched 15,000 Android mobile projects in 2012, representing a 96 percent increase over 2011.
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Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SSDs: Seagates surprisingly strong entry into the SSD market
2013-05-07 17:49:38| Extremetech
Proving that it's only a matter of time until the SSD and HDD markets coalesce, long-time hard drive maker Seagate has announced its entry into the consumer SSD space with two brand new drives: The 600 and 600 Pro.
Bonn climate change talks going 'surprisingly well', say delegates
2013-05-02 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The most surprising thing is that theres an awful lot of common sense being spoken on a whole range of issues, and its getting better as the week goes on, said Matthew Kennedy, of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. There is a relaxed atmosphere at the talks, which are being held in the former West German Bundestag (parliament) on the right bank of the Rhine built in the late 1980s just prior to German reunification and the move back to Berlin. Its been a reasonably good start,...
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U. S. has surprisingly large reservoir of crop plant diversity
2013-04-30 03:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry. The findings, which were published today (Apr. 29) in the journal Crop Science, are good news for plant breeders, who've relied increasingly in recent years on the wild kin of domesticated crops as new sources of disease...
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